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# Agnipurana 53.22

Agnipurāṇa 53.22

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [53.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni.53.22)

mūleṅgulyagravistāramagre tryaṃśena cārdhataḥ /  
īṣannimnantu kurvīta khātaṃ taccottareṇa vai /  
piṇḍikāsahitaṃ liṅgametat sādhāraṇaṃ smṛtam //

> The width at the base is an finger-tip, and at the top it is half of three parts; / one should make it slightly low, with that cavity indeed towards the north; / this is remembered as the universal \[rule\] for a liṅga endowed with a pedestal.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [53.22.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni.53.22.p1)

:e ity ādimahāpurāṇe āgneye liṅgalakṣaṇaṃ nāma  
tripañcāśattamodhyāyaḥ ||

> Thus ends the fifty-third chapter, titled "Characteristics of the Liṅga", in the venerable Mahāpurāṇa composed by Agni.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [53.22.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni.53.22.p3)

:ś atha catuḥpañcāśattamodhyāyaḥ

> Now the fifty-fourth chapter.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [53.22.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni.53.22.p4)

liṅgamānādikathanaṃ

> Statement of the Measurements and Other Properties of the Liṅga  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.53.22) — English, machine translation

## Other recensions (1)

- [Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni*nag.53.22) — Sanskrit

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