[INDOLOGY] Alchemy metaphor

[Christopher Wallis]

Thanks for the reference Dominik.

And, with reference to the Abhinavagupta passages we were considering, we
get a rather clear comment I didn't notice before:

*tadā bodha-svarūpīkṛtaṃ tad-rasānuviddham eva śūnyādi-dehāntam avabhātīti *
then those [levels] from the Void to the body manifest as [they really
are,] having awareness as their essence, i.e. they are transmuted by the
elixir of that [awareness].

We also get a clarification in the same passage that *viddha, anuviddha,
abhiniviṣṭa, samāviṣṭa *all denote the same thing in this context. Though
it seems as if Abhinava uses *anuvedha/anuviddha *when he wants you to know
that he definitely means "transmute".

best, CW




2014-07-20 9:27 GMT-07:00 Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>:

> Dans l'article, "Yoga et alchimie" Zeitschrift der Deutschen
> Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 1982, 132, 363-79
> <http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/dmg/periodical/titleinfo/150129>,
> à la page 366, Arion Roşu, dit,
> "la transsubstantiation du corps (deha-vedha) étant calquée sur la
> transmutation des métaux vils (loha-vedha)."
> C'est aussi exactement ma compréhension de "vedh-" dans les textes
> alchimique, comme je le soutiens.  Roşu n'explique (or problematizes) pas sa
> traduction à cet endroit; peut-être ailleurs dans ses oevres extensive
> sur ses sujets?
>
> Dominik
>
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