The Tilaka of Sharada

Second Chapter

Whether it is a mantra or a vidya, if it has seventeen syllables and begins with five Phat sounds, it is called "intoxicated." (85)

Similarly, if the weapon is situated in the middle, that mantra is "fainted." The one whose mantra is in the position of a pause is called "devoid of vitality." (86)

A mantra that has four squares a reference to geometric configuration in the mantra's structure in the beginning, middle, and at the head is known to be deficient; this is the case if it has eighteen syllables. (87)

The mantra that has nineteen syllables and is joined with the tara the Omkara, and is filled with the Hullekha, Ankus, and seeds, is called "destroyed." (88)

A mantra of seven syllables is a "child," eight syllables is an "adolescent," sixteen syllables is an "adult," and forty syllables is a mantra of the letters. (89)

A mantra of thirty syllables, sixty-four syllables, or one hundred syllables; one of four hundred syllables is called "aged." (90)

A mantra of nine syllables joined with the dhruva fixed/stable syllable is called "cruel." If at the end there is the heart, and the head-mantras in the middle. (91)

If there is no tuft shikha or armor, or if there is Vaushat or Phat, or if it is devoid of Shiva and Shakti, it is remembered as "to be avoided." (92)

Since the Phat sound is seen in these six places, that mantra is devoid of success. A mantra of equal syllables is "dull." (93)

A cruel one-syllable mantra is said to be "devoid of parts." A two-syllabled one is "deficient," and a four-syllabled one is "squint-eyed." (94)

A six-syllabled mantra is "devoid of seed," and a seven-and-a-half-syllabled mantra or a twelve-and-a-half-syllabled mantra is "shaken" and is blameworthy. (95)

Similarly, one with three-and-a-half seeds, twenty-one syllables, twenty syllables, or thirty syllables is called "embraced." (96)

A mantra of twenty-two syllables is called "deluded." A mantra that is thirty-two syllables or twenty-seven syllables. (97)