Agnipurana 100
English (machine translation) 100
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100.1
The Lord said:
I shall now state the rule for the consecration of what pertains to the doorway: / having purified the components of the doorway with astringent [decoctions] and the like, one should place them on the bed.
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In the base, middle, and top portions, having ritually deposited the triad beginning with the self and ending with the Lord, / and having positioned them, having offered fire oblation and recited here according to form,
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the one who has chanted the mantra of Ananta should then worship the site deity below the doorway right there; / having ritually deposited the five gems and the like and having performed the pacifying fire oblation,
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[making an amulet bundle] filled with barley, white mustard, ṛddhi, vṛddhi, large sesame seeds, / cow dung, red arsenic, king-like mustard seeds, mohanī, lakṣaṇā, amṛtā,
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yellow pigment, rug, vacā, and dūrvā grass, and having made an amulet bundle underneath the temple, / having tied it to the threshold with the praṇava for the sake of protection,
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one should erect the doorway leaning slightly toward the north, / having deposited the principle of the self below, and the principle of wisdom on the two doorposts,
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and Śiva in the space [above], all-pervasive in the lintel; / then one should ritually deposit the Great Lord by means of the root mantra.
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Footnotes:
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1 "Vinyasya ca niveśyātha" according to manuscript Kha; "vinyasya sannibodhyātha" according to manuscript Ja.
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2 "Ajaptvānurūpataḥ" according to manuscript Ga.
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3 "Sarvapuṣkalam" according to manuscripts Kha and Gha.
100.8
For those dependent on the doorway, such as the pedestal, with their own names conjoined with "kṛta", / one should offer one hundred fire oblations, or fifty, or double that, according to capacity.
100.9
For the removal of faults such as deficiency or excess, one should offer one hundred [oblations] with the weapon [mantra]; / having offered the directional tribute as before, he should bestow the sacrificial fee and the like.
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Thus in the Mahāpurāṇa of Agni, the one-hundredth chapter, entitled "The Consecration of the Doorway."
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Now the one hundred and first chapter.
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Consecration of the temple.
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- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
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- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit