[INDOLOGY] Tantrapāla

[Patricia Sauthoff]

The Indian Epigraphical Glossary
<https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/IEGScan/2020/web/webtc/indexcaller.php>
 gives tantrapāla
<https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/csl-apidev/servepdf.php?dict=IEG&page=337>
as "chief of the army" and other high level positions of protector of
kings, which seems to fit your verse.

On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 1:40 AM Martin Gansten via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> I wonder if anyone knowledgeable about (north)western India around the
> 13th century might have an idea about how the epithet tantrapāla should be
> understood in that context? I am looking at these two verses from an
> astrological text:
>
> kasya samīpe candro ravimuthaśilage nṛpatipārśve |
> śaninā ca muthaśile ’smin nīcānām ijyamuthaśile ca satām ||
> śukreṇa ca yuvatīnāṃ jñena vyavahāripaṇḍitānāṃ ca |
> bhaumena <ca> śatrūṇāṃ krūreśānāṃ ca tantrapālānām ||
>
> 'In whose company is the moon? If it forms a *muthaśila *[Ar. *muttaṣil*,
> applying aspect] with the sun, [the querent travels] at the side of the
> king; if it has a *muthaśila *with Saturn, [at the side] of low people,
> and if a *muthaśila *with Jupiter, of good people; with Venus, of women;
> with Mercury, with merchants and scholars; with Mars, of his enemies, cruel
> lords and *tantrapālas*.'
>
> The standard dictionaries failling me, I did a simple web search, which
> turned up some suggestions; but the present context seems to call for
> something more warlike, violent and/or sinister than just 'high official'
> or 'secretary of council'.
>
> Thanks in advance for any thoughts,
>
> Martin Gansten
>
>
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Patricia Sauthoff, PhD
Assistant Lecturer
Department of History, Classics, and Religion
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada

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