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Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya — Heart Sūtra
Complete short Sanskrit recension with Sanskrit source and THY-REALITY editorial English translation.
The complete short Sanskrit recension of the Heart Sūtra is aligned with a THY-REALITY editorial translation. The source transcription is preserved even where the editorial apparatus records a textual crux.
License and source: Sanskrit e-text: GRETIL / Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Input Project, based on P. L. Vaidya (1961), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. This local edition preserves attribution and license terms; no modern 84000 translation is copied. GRETIL.
Sanskrit sourceEnglish translation
namaḥ sarvajñāya ||
Homage to the Omniscient.
āryāvalokiteśvarabodhisattvo gambhīrāyāṃ prajñāpāramitāyāṃ caryāṃ caramāṇo vyavalokayati sma | pañca skandhāḥ, tāṃśca svabhāvaśūnyān paśyati sma ||
The noble bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, while practicing the profound perfection of wisdom, examined closely. He saw the five aggregates and saw that they were empty of own-being.
iha śāriputra rūpaṃ śūnyatā, śūnyataiva rūpam | rūpānna pṛthak śūnyatā, śūnyatāyā na pṛthag rūpam | yadrūpaṃ sā śūnyatā, yā śūnyatā tadrūpam ||
Here, Śāriputra, form is emptiness, and emptiness itself is form. Emptiness is not separate from form, nor is form separate from emptiness. Whatever is form is emptiness; whatever is emptiness is form.
evameva vedanāsaṃjñāsaṃskāravijñānāni ||
The same is true of feeling, perception, formations, and consciousness.
ihaṃ śāriputra sarvadharmāḥ śūnyatālakṣaṇā anutpannā aniruddhā amalā na vimalā nonā na paripūrṇāḥ | tasmācchāriputra śūnyatāyāṃ na rūpam, na vedanā, na saṃjñā, na saṃskārāḥ, na vijñānāni | na cakṣuḥśrotraghrāṇajihvākāyamanāṃsi, na rūpaśabdagandharasaspraṣṭavyadharmāḥ | na cakṣurdhāturyāvanna manodhātuḥ ||
Here, Śāriputra, all phenomena are characterized by emptiness: they are unarisen, unceased, neither stained nor purified, neither deficient nor complete. Therefore, Śāriputra, in emptiness there is no form, no feeling, no perception, no formations, no consciousness; no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no forms, sounds, smells, tastes, tangibles, or mental phenomena; no eye-element, up to no mind-element.
na vidyā nāvidyā na vidyākṣayo nāvidyākṣayo yāvanna jarāmaraṇaṃ na jarāmaraṇakṣayo na duḥkhasamudayanirodhamārgā na jñānaṃ na prāptitvam ||
There is no knowledge and no ignorance, no exhaustion of knowledge and no exhaustion of ignorance, up to no aging-and-death and no exhaustion of aging-and-death; no suffering, arising, cessation, or path; no cognition and no attainment.
bodhisattvasya(śca?) prajñāpāramitāmāśritya viharati cittāvaraṇaḥ | cittāvaraṇanāstitvādatrasto viparyāsātikrānto niṣṭhanirvāṇaḥ | tryadhvavyavasthitāḥ sarvabuddhāḥ prajñāpāramitāmāśritya anuttarāṃ samyaksaṃbodhimabhisaṃbuddhāḥ ||
The bodhisattva, relying on the perfection of wisdom, dwells without obstruction of mind. Because there is no obstruction of mind, there is no fear; having gone beyond distortion, the bodhisattva reaches final nirvāṇa. All buddhas abiding in the three times, relying on the perfection of wisdom, have fully awakened to unsurpassed perfect awakening.
tasmājjñātavyaḥ prajñāpāramitāmahāmantro mahāvidyāmantro 'nuttaramantro 'samasamamantraḥ sarvaduḥkhapraśamanaḥ satyamamithyatvāt prajñāpāramitāyāmukto mantraḥ | tadyathā - gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā ||
Therefore one should know the perfection of wisdom as the great mantra, the mantra of great knowledge, the unsurpassed mantra, the mantra equal to the unequalled, which pacifies all suffering; it is true because it is not false. In the perfection of wisdom this mantra is spoken: gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā.
iti prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtraṃ samāptam ||
Thus ends the Heart Sūtra of the Perfection of Wisdom.