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# Agnipurana 78.69

Agnipurāṇa 78.69

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [78.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni.78.69)

anenaiva prakāreṇa mumukṣurapi saṃviśet /  
kevalambhasmaśayyāyāṃ sopavāsaḥ samāhitaḥ //

> In this very manner, one desiring liberation also should lie down, / only on a bed of ashes, fasting and concentrated.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [78.69.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni.78.69.p1)

:e ity ādimahāpurāṇe āgneye pavitrādhivāsanavidhirnāma  
aṣṭasaptatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ ||

> Thus ends the seventy-eighth chapter, named 'The Rule of Preliminary Consecration of the Sacred Thread', in the primeval Mahāpurāṇa composed by Agni.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [78.69.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni.78.69.p3)

:ś athaikonāśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

> Now, the seventy-ninth chapter.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [78.69.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni.78.69.p4)

pavitrārohaṇavidhiḥ

> The Rule for Investiture with the Sacred Thread  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.78.69) — English, machine translation

## Other recensions (1)

- [Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni*nag.78.69) — Sanskrit

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