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 < [email protected]> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > -- Patricia Sauthoff, PhD Assistant Lecturer Department of History, Classics, and Religion University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada (I will respond as quickly as I can. In the meantime, here is a pdf <https://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/med-guided2.pdf> of some of my favorite simple guided meditations.) Author: Illness and Immortality: mantra, maṇḍala, and meditation in the Netra Tantra <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/illness-and-immortality-9780197553268?cc=us&lang=en&#:~:text=Patricia%20Sauthoff%20examines%20the%20role,to%20alleviate%20illness%20and%20death.&text=It%20asks%20how%20ritual%20alleviates,rites%20described%20within%20the%20text.> UAlberta resources Sexual assault centre: [email protected] Office of Safe Disclosure and Human Rights: [email protected] The Landing: [email protected]
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