Gorakṣaśataka 101–101.1: Wine, Meat and Union as Inner Images

The final stanza interprets wine, meat and sexual union as inward yogic processes. bindu, “drop”, names the stream being drunk. I relate cet to union: “if there is union”. The preceding locative construction describes the mind dissolved in the void. I render the damaged words pravilaya and vivaśā according to their recognisable sense as “in complete dissolution” and “without volition”; their case and subject connections are uncertain. pravilaya is explicitly marked as a crux in the working text, while vivaśā is already Mallinson’s conjecture. His printed translation (2012, p. 272) confirms the inward interpretation of union but does not resolve these forms individually. The translated sentence connection is therefore provisional. In the kuśa comparison, I understand tanu as the form or body of the channel, without adding “slender” as a further quality.