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Shri Varahi Devi: Tantrarajatantra Chapter XXIII
Shri Varahi Devi: Tantrarajatantra Chapter XXIII
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Both Varahi and Kurukulla are connected with, but separate from the
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The following chapter of the Tantrarajatantra, translated into English for
Web pages designed by Mike Magee. the first time, is devoted to the practice of the Varahi mantra and
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Original artwork is © Jan Bailey, 1996. Translations are © Mike Magee
1996.
is only qualified (adhikari) to perform these rites if (a) she or he is
initiated, and (b) does the daily puja of Tripurasundari. Further, the
The U.K. Main Site commentary (not translated here) shows that there is a number of
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After doing limb nyasa using seven, two sets of six, ten, seven and
seven parts of the mantras, a person should worship according to rule
in a chakra consisting of triangle, circle, hexagon, invoking her with
Hrim.
One should worship using the 110 letters of the Varahi vidya in the
centre (of the yantra), and should then worship the attendants in the
left, right and centre triangles who are Krodhini, Stambhini and Chanda-
Ucchanda, placing Hrim in front of their respective names and Namah
behind.
In the six angles starting from the east and going anticlockwise one
should worship Brahmi and so forth. Then in the circles one should
worship Mahalakshmi Panchami. After giving animal sacrifice using the
sixteenth syllable, and after one has worshipped all with ritual
accessories, one should recite the vidya 1000 or 100 times. Daily, one
should do sacrifice using pure and good sesamum, rice or ghee, then
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One should meditate on Devi as having the body of a girl from the throat
down, resembling the colour of molten gold, her large, fiery and tawny
haired head being that of a sow.
She has three eyes and seven arms which hold a discus, a conch, a
hook, a lotus, a noose, and a club. She shows the (mudras) dispelling
fear and granting boons. One should think of her as being comfortably
seated on the shoulders of Garuda. In daily worship one should
meditate on her and her Shaktis in this way.
In rituals for subjugation, one should think of Panchami, and recite (her
mantra) as red, surrounded by hosts of beautiful red Shaktis. In worship
for paralysing, one should meditate on her as yellow, wearing yellow
garments, garlanded with yellow flowers, wearing yellow jewels, and
smeared with yellow unguent, surrounded by yellow Shaktis.
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If one should think of Devi, surrounded by her attendants, and recite her
vidya, for three days, in water, as breaking in pieces the body of one's
enemy, which is then consumed by fierce jackals and corpse eaters and
flesh eating dogs, then, after remembering her, one gains deliverance.
If one should worship the red Devi at midnight, using red flowers, one
may enslave or kill all enemies, this is certain.
If one should do puja for the number of days previously spoken of, using
black flowers according to rule, at the time of one's enemy's death, in a
visha nadi, a tortured yoga, or in a death or destruction yoga, then
Yama lords it over the enemies.
If one should worship using dark green flowers, and various sorts of
scents, it is said one becomes very wealthy, free of disease, true
minded, a lord. One lives happily on earth for 100 years, it is said.
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Meditating on her as being purple, and seated on a bird, having the nail
and the rest of the weapons, during (the rising of) Virgo or Scorpio,
offering goat flesh and much ghee, the rays of light from the sacrifice
slay the person, who is consumed by hot raging fever.
If, at night, one should meditate on her as red, with her nail and other
weapons, and sacrifice in the various cardinal points starting with the
east for the number of days previously stated, then one may subjugate
man, woman or the whole world. One becomes famous, and lives on
earth for a long period like Laksmi.
One should draw a bhupura, inside of this placing the name of the
target. On the outside one should write the earth letters. Making an
eight petal lotus, one should write the six syllables of the mantra outside
of the two circles.
Outside the hexagon one should write the earth letters, placing mantras
inside the angles. As previously stated, one should write (letters) on the
rim of the two circles, placing outside of the bhupura, in an
anticlockwise direction, the letters of the matrika.
After doing this, one should then write in reverse the letters of the root
vidya. If one should worship in this, one may paralyse the enemy and
the world.
One should write the letters of the mantra six by six in a nine angled
design surrounded by two circles, outside of this there being an
octangle design surrounded by two circles, all surrounded by a bhupura.
Within the octangles, and outside of the circles, and in the bhupura, one
should write the matrikas both clockwise and anticlockwise. One should
write the name (of the target) in all the directions, and should worship
the eight armed form, Auspicious One. Parameshvari, employing the
method previously stated, the target becomes paralysed.
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Draw a square, inside of this making sixteen lines, extending from the
cardinal and intermediate points, which together makes a figure of 225
compartments. One should make a symmetrical figure of 28
compartments by rubbing out other of the angles made. In the central
three compartments one should write the target and the name of the act
the sadhaka wishes to accomplish. Starting from the east, one should
write the letters of the mantra.
This great yantra is called the vajra, giving the totality of whatever is
wished for by sadhakas. Wherever this is placed, whether written on
copper, stone and so forth, there can never dwell thieves, bhutas,
diseases, ailments, serpents, bad planets, pretas, pisacas and so forth.
In whichever house this yantra is placed on the junction points of the
homestead design (vastu), there can never exist black magic, ailments
or disease.
From the north west, south east, south west and north east, draw 12
lines, making a vajra figure of 21 compartments. In the centre of these
one should draw the name of whatever is to be accomplished, outside
of this, in a clockwise direction, writing the letters of the alphabet. After
worshipping this and drawing it, whether it be on copper, stone or
whatever, disease, bhutas, planets, madness, pisacas and the kleshas
of the mind can never enter or afflict one.
After making a circle measuring four finger breadths, one should put
outside of it, two measures by two measures, eleven compartments.
From each of these two by two measures one should draw lines. After
putting tridents in the compartments, one should surround the whole
with the letters of the alphabet, and placing the named in the centre.
After indrawing the Devi via breath into this yantra, and worshipping
from the east clockwise, then reciting the vidya, one may achieve
whatever is desired.
Notes
Varahi, also known as Panchami, or the Fivefold One, bears the relation
of "father" to Lalita, although pictured as a Devi. The mother form is
Kurukulla Tara. Varahi gives four fires and Kurukulla five Shaktis -- this
forming the complex shape in the centre of Shri Yantra.
Varahi is fivefold as water, fire, earth, air and aether. These elements
are related to lion, tiger, elephant, horse and Garuda -- the bird-human
vehicle of Vishnu. Their colours are dark green, red, yellow, black and
purple.
Her mantra vidya of 110 letters is: Aim glaum aim namo bhagavati
vartali vartali varahi varahi varahamukhi varahamukhi andhe andhini
nama rundhe rundhini namah jambhe jambhini namah mohe mohini nama
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