Agnipurana 26: ṣaḍviṃśo'dhyāyaḥ

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mudrālakṣaṇakathanam

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nārada uvāca

26.1

mudrāṇāṃ lakṣaṇaṃ vakṣye sānnidhyādiprakārakam
añcaliḥ prathamā mudrā vandanī hṛdayānugā

Nārada said: / I shall explain the characteristics of the ritual gestures, which cause [the deity's] presence and so forth. / The first ritual gesture is the folded hands (añjali), used in salutation, held near the heart.

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ūddharvāṅguṣṭho vāmamuṣṭirddakṣiṇāṅguṣṭhabandhanam
savyasya tasya cāṅguṣṭho yasya cordhve prakīrttitaḥ

The left fist has the thumb raised; the right thumb is clasped, / and the thumb of the right hand is stated to be upright.

26.3

tisraḥ sādhāraṇā vyūhe athāsādhāraṇā imāḥ
kaniṣṭhādivimokena aṣṭau mudrā yathākramam

Three are common to the divine emanations (vyūha); now these are the specific ones: / by releasing [the fingers] starting from the little finger, the eight ritual gestures are formed in order.

26.4

aṣṭānāṃ pūrvvabījānāṃ kramaśastvavadhārayet
aṅguṣṭhena kaniṣṭhāntaṃ nāmayitvāṅgulitrayam

One should understand them in the order of the eight preliminary seed-syllables: / having bent the three fingers ending with the little finger with the thumb,

26.5

ūrdhvaṃ kṛtvā sammukhañca bījāya navamāya vai
vāmahastamathottānaṃ kṛtvordhvaṃ nāmayecchanaiḥ

and holding them upward and facing forward, [that is] indeed for the ninth seed-syllable. / Then, turning the left hand upward, one should slowly bend half of it.

26.6

varāhasya smṛtā mudrā aṅgānāñca kramādimāḥ
ekaikāṃ mocayedbaddhvā vāmamuṣṭau tathāṅgulīm

This is remembered as the ritual gesture of Varāha, and these are successively [those] of the ancillary [deities]: / having formed a left fist, one should release each single finger in turn.

26.7

ākuñcayetpūrvamudrāṃ dakṣiṇe'pyevameva ca
ūrddhvāṅguṣṭho vāmamuṣṭirmudrāsiddhistato bhavet

One should contract the previous gesture, and similarly with the right [hand] as well: / the left fist with the thumb upright—thence comes success with the ritual gestures.

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ityādimahāpurāṇe āgneye mudrālakṣaṇaṃ nāma ṣaḍviṃśo'dhyāyaḥ