Sanskrit phrase

[torella at rmcisadu.cisadu.uniroma1.it]

pratisenA, which has nothing to do with 'opposing army', is a special method
of divination (sometimes glossed with sAdhakacintA).See Sekoddeza vv.24ff.
and NAropA's TIkA thereon; see also KAlacakratantra Chapter V (MS).

With regards,

Raffaele Torella > 
> 
> Has anyone else ever come across the term
> pratisenaa-aadars'a
> 
> a literal translation would be something like
> "the opposing-army-mirror"
> 
> The term cropped up in some tantric material describing a meditational
> process whereby the practitioner sees certain aspects of reality
> in this `mirror (that is like?) an opposing army.'  
> Jim Hartzell
> Columbia U.
> jh at cubsps.bio.columbia.edu