[INDOLOGY] help with a phrase

[Matthew Kapstein]

Dear friends,

Has anyone ever seen this compound:
samadoṣa or possible śamadoṣa
meaning something like: the faults (or humours) being equalized, or allayed ?

It is part of a longer compound referring to a practice of internal yoga:
samadoṣāgnidhātubhṛt
which should mean something like "maintaining the fire element in equipoise"

The Tibetan is: mnyam nyid dbyings nas me bzung, "having grasped the fire from the space/element of equipoise"

It's the use of doṣahere that I find problematic, though that's what all three of the mss. I am consulting clearly read.

(The text is the Yuddhajayatantra-svarodaya.)

thanks in advance for your suggestions,
Matthew

Matthew T. Kapstein
Professor emeritus
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, Paris

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The University of Chicago Divinity School

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