Dear Harry,

I wonder if you are referring to what Jayaratha calls structural unity (sañcaya nyāya) in the Tantrāloka-viveka (TĀV). Abhinavagupta ends each āhnika of the TĀ with the first half of the concluding verse and begins the subsequent āhnika with the second half of the same verse. This strategy is followed in all chapters except in āhnika 36. See TĀV: iha āhnikādāhnikāntarasya sañcayanyāyena parasparamanusyūtatāṃ darśayitum ekenaiva ślokena

tatparyantaprārambhayorupasaṃhāropakramau karoti, iti asya granthakārasya śailī | (cf. TĀV, Vol I, p. 309

KSTS

). Also quoted by Navjivan Rastogi (1987:76-78) in the "Introduction to the Tantrāloka" (MLBD).

Also see TĀV, Vol 12, p 390: iha āhnikādāhnikāntarasya parasparamanusyūtatāṃ darśayitumādyantayorekena ślokena

pṛthagupasaṃhāropakramayorupanibandhe.api sāṃprataṃ granthānte tadāśleṣamatyantamavadyotayitamekenaiva

ardhena yugapattadupanibandha iti |

I hope this helps.

Best wishes.

Mrinal

On 4 June 2016 at 05:46, Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear list members,

I vaguely recall reading somewhere (it might even have been on this list) that in some tantric works the logical sentence consists of the last two padas of a verse and the first two padas of the next verse.

Can any members confirm if this is true or false and if true give an example.

Many thanks,
Harry Spier

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