Abstract
Abstract This chapter will explore an important seventeenth-century Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā text on transgressive ritual practices and visualization involving the divine body (deva-deha): the Amṛtaratnāvalī (Necklace of Immortality) of Mukunda-dāsa. Because the Bengali language used in this text is largely uninflected and enigmatic, and there are no extant written commentaries to guide its study, the chapter will demonstrate how approaching the translation based on the underlying metaphors can give us a richer understanding of this problematic, yet fascinating, text. As the Sahajiyās were influenced by traditions from both Tantra as well as bhakti, the chapter will use conceptual metaphor theory and conceptual blending theory to better understand this complex language. This approach utilizes insights from the study of conceptual metaphors first developed by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, as well as the process of conceptual blending first presented by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner.
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