# tantrasara-a18 tsa18-p01 (18.1-18.2)

tantrasara-a18 tsa18-p01 (18.1-18.2) passes link checks; no formal theorems bound. Chunk gate BLOCKED; no witness verified.

> Machine rendering — UNREVIEWED, not an approved translation. No English here was human-reviewed.

Canonical: https://svatantrya.net/claim/tantrasara-a18/tsa18-p01/

## Passage (excerpt as hashed)

```
tantrasāra, aṣṭādaśam āhnikam svabhyastajñāninaṃ sādhakatve gurutve vā abhiṣiñcet yataḥ sarvalakṣaṇahīno 'pi jñānavān eva sādhakatve anugrahakaraṇe ca adhikṛtaḥ na anyaḥ abhiṣikto 'pi // abhts_18.1 svādhikārasamarpaṇe guruḥ dīkṣādi akurvan api na pratyavaiti pūrvaṃ tu pratyavāyena adhikārabandhena vidyeśapadadāyinā bandha eva asya dīkṣādyakaraṇam so 'bhiṣikto mantradevatātādātmyasiddhaye ṣāṇmāsikaṃ pratyahaṃ japahomaviśeṣapūjācaraṇena vidyāvrataṃ kuryāt tadanantaraṃ labdhatanmayībhāvo dīkṣādau adhikṛtaḥ tatra na ayogyān dīkṣeta na ca yogyaṃ pariharet dīkṣitam api jñānadāne parīkṣeta chadmagṛhītajñānam api jñātvā upekṣeta atra ca abhiṣekavibhavena devapūjādikam // abhts_18.2
```

## Reading (machine draft, verse-mapped)

**tsa-a18-v01** — One well-practised in knowledge should be consecrated, to be a practitioner or a teacher — for even devoid of all marks, the knower alone is entitled to practitionerhood and to bestowing grace; not another, even if consecrated.
**tsa-a18-v02** — Having handed over his own authority, a teacher who performs no initiation incurs no fault; but before that, bondage itself, through fault, through authority's bond, through the giver of the Vidyeśa state, is his non-performance of initiation. So consecrated, for the success of mantra-deity identity, six-monthly, daily, through the conduct of muttering, fire-offering, and special worship, let him perform the knowledge-vow. Thereafter, having become made of that, he is entitled in initiation and the rest. Therein: let him not initiate the unfit, nor let him pass over the fit; let him test even the initiated in the giving of knowledge; having known even deceit-grasped knowledge, let him overlook it; and herein, through the splendor of consecration, god-worship and the rest.

## Claims

| Claim | Status | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Link completeness | PASS | assurance.trace_links_present + gaps |
| Human review | UNREVIEWED (machine rendering; no human sign-off) | assurance.review |
| Deterministic chunk gate | BLOCKED (CITATION_GROUNDING) | proofs.chunk_gate |
| Manuscript witness | UNPINNED (0 verified corpus-wide) | identity.witness |
| Source-span completeness | UNKNOWN | assurance: ledger span is an excerpt; volume not hashed |