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Tripurā Rahasya (The Mystery of Tripurā)
त्रिपुरारहस्य (Tripurārahasya), también हारितायनसंहिता (Hāritāyanasaṃhitā)
A work in three sections, two of which survive: that of the goddess's greatness (Māhātmya) and that of knowledge (Jñāna), the latter in twenty-two chapters. Paraśurāma, after his defeat by Rāma and twelve years of worship of the goddess, recalls the words of the avadhūta Saṃvarta and goes to Dattātreya on Mount Gandhamādana. The teacher shows him, through stories such as that of Prince Hemacūḍa and his wife Hemalekhā, that consciousness alone is real and that the world is its reflection. Ramana Maharshi quoted it to his visitors, and his ashram published Munagala Venkataramiah's English translation.
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Authorship note
It is not Dattātreya's work, nor is he credited as its author: Haritāyana (Sumedhas Hāritāyana) composes and narrates it to Nārada, and its content is the teaching Dattātreya gave to Paraśurāma ("explained by me, Śrī Datta Guru, to the Bhārgava", the text itself says). It is dated between the eleventh and seventeenth centuries; it belongs to the Śākta school of the goddess Tripurā.
Editions and translations
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English
Tripura Rahasya: The Secret of the Supreme Goddess
World Wisdom, Bloomington, 2002
Translation: Swami Ramanananda Saraswathi
ISBN 0941532496
Reedición de 2009: ISBN 9781933316819.
Dattatreya
Tripurā-rahasya (Jñānakhaṇḍa): English translation and a comparative study of the process of individuation
The Conscious LibraryTripurā-rahasya (Jñānakhaṇḍa): English translation and a comparative study of the process of individuation
Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, Varanasi, 1965
Translation: A. U. Vasavada
Chowkhamba Sanskrit Studies 40.
Dattatreya
Tripura Rahasya or The Mystery beyond the Trinity
The Conscious LibraryTripura Rahasya or The Mystery beyond the Trinity
Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai, 1962
Translation: Munagala S. Venkataramiah (Swami Ramanananda Saraswathi)
Ed. de 2006: ISBN 9788188018291.
Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्
Dattatreya
The Tripurā Rahasya (Jñāna Khaṇḍa), with commentary
The Conscious LibraryThe Tripurā Rahasya (Jñāna Khaṇḍa), with commentary
Government Sanskrit College, Benarés, 1925
Ed. Gopinath Kaviraj y Nārāyaṇa Śāstrī Khiste, Princess of Wales Sarasvati Bhavana Texts 15 (1925–1933), con la Tātparyadīpikā de Śrīnivāsa.
Français
Dattatreya
La doctrine secrète de la déesse Tripurā: section de la connaissance
The Conscious LibraryLa doctrine secrète de la déesse Tripurā: section de la connaissance
Fayard, París, 1979
Translation: Michel Hulin
ISBN 9782213008127
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- Avadhūta Gītā (Song of the Liberated One) · 950
- Jīvanmukta Gītā (Song of the One Liberated While Living)
- Dattātreyayogaśāstra (Dattātreya's Treatise on Yoga) · 1200
- Jābāladarśana Upaniṣad (Darśana Upaniṣad)
- Avadhūta Upaniṣad · 1400
- The teaching of yoga to Alarka (Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa)
- The twenty-four teachers: dialogue of the avadhūta with Yadu (Bhāgavata Purāṇa 11.7–9) · 900
- Dattātreya Tantra
Sources
- Tripurārahasya, Jñānakhaṇḍa, con la Tātparyadīpikā de Śrīnivāsa. Ed. Gopinath Kaviraj y Nārāyaṇa Śāstrī Khiste. Benarés: Government Sanskrit College, 1925–1933 (Princess of Wales Sarasvati Bhavana Texts 15); texto en Wikisource en sánscrito. Traducción inglesa: Munagala S. Venkataramiah (Swami Ramanananda Saraswathi), Tripura Rahasya or The Mystery beyond the Trinity, Tiruvannamalai, Sri Ramanasramam (ed. 2006, ISBN 9788188018291).
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