> > Phat!: (pronounced 'fot') phoneme; Buddhist Hybrid-Sanskrit; > > causative verb? 1. Crack! 2. Snap! 3. Pop! 4. Meaningless > > sound. 5. Gibberish. 6. Bija mantra - sometimes referred > > to as the weapon mantra also, in that, it destroys obstacles. > > 7. Sound of a two-stroked motor vehicle seen all over Delhi. > > Vaj wrote: > It's an aspirated "P" silly Willy. :-) > That's what I said, silly Vaj, 'fot'; but you neglected to mention the left-handed finger snap, which is the essense of the astral weapon mantra 'phat'. What's up with that?
Mahnirvana Tantra, 5.90, 92: http://tinyurl.com/36slch 1 phaT ind. (onom.) crack! VS. AV. TA1r. (also a mystical syllable used in incantation). 2 phat ind. , an interjection (in %{phat-kR} , prob. w.r. for %{phuT-kR}). 3 phAT ind. an interjection of calling W. Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon: http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/tamil/recherche Salutation to the Wine Devi: Vaushat: http://www.sacred-texts.com/tantra/maha/maha05.htm Phat is the astral or weapon mantra: http://www.sacred-texts.com/tantra/htg/htg11.htm#fn_331
