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Agnipurana 101

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101.1

The Lord said:
I shall explain the consecration of the temple and its consciousness through its own yoga: / upon the completion of the antefix (śukanāśā) and in the middle of the eastern altar,

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when the [energy of] support has been placed upon the lotus with the praṇava, / a pot made of gold or whatever material, filled with the five bovine products,

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accompanied by honey and milk, in which the five gems and the like are deposited, / draped with garlands and cloth, smeared with perfume, and adorned with fragrant flowers,

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and decorated with sprouts of mango and the like, the skillful [priest] should deposit.

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Footnotes:

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1 "Nandyādīn" according to manuscript Kha.

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[Variant reading note] 2 'kṛtyayuktaiḥ' in manuscript ja..

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[Variant reading note] 3 'śaktito yathā' in manuscript ga..

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[Variant reading note] 4 The text beginning with 'bhāgatrayeṇa' and ending with 'juhuyācchatam' is absent in manuscript jha.. Here, a reading consisting of three chapters plus several verses has fallen out.

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[Variant reading note] 5 'pūrvavad datvā' in manuscripts ga.. and gha..

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[Variant reading note] 6 'taccaitanyañca yogataḥ' in manuscript ga..; 'taccaitanyasvayogataḥ' in cha..

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[Variant reading note] 7 'vinyaste praṇavena tu' in manuscripts kha.., cha.., ja.., and jha..; 'vinyaset praṇavena tu' in ga..

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[Variant reading note] 8 'madhukṣīrayutaṃ nyastaratnādipañcakaṃ tataḥ' in manuscript ga..

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[Variant reading note] 9 'gandhavatpuṣpadhūpitam' in manuscripts ga.., ṅa.., and cha..

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[Variant reading note] 10 'vahnikṛta padmaṃ vinyased' in manuscript kha..; 'vahnikūpaṃ yavaṃ nyased' in ga..;

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'vahnikūpeṣu ca nyased' in manuscript ja..

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Having inhaled through the pūraka breath, his body fully ritualised,

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his inner breath holding the soul distinct from the universal Soul with his own mantra, / the guru, through the recaka breath, should then awaken it in Śambhu by [Śambhu's] command.

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Drawing it from the dvādaśānta, resembling a flashing spark of fire, / he should deposit it within the jar, having laid down the subtle transmigrating body.

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The body, its qualities, and its awakeners, such as the kalās— / that multitude terminating in the letter kṣa, belonging to Vāgīśvara, he should install there.

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Having combined the ten nāḍīs, the ten prāṇas, and the thirteen sense organs / along with their presiding deities through their own names preceded by the praṇava,

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as his own cause and effect, the regulators of the ether of māyā, / the Vidyeśvaras, the instigators, Śambhu, and the all-pervading [Lord] with well-arranged restraints,

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and having deposited the limbs, he should confine [it] with the rodhamudrā, / or [he should deposit] the Puruṣa, follower of the supreme Puruṣa, fashioned of gold or other materials.

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Then, having consecrated it as before with the five products of the cow, decoctions, and so forth, / placing the pot upon the couch, and meditating upon Rudra, the consort of Umā,

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[Variant reading note]

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[Variant reading note] 1 'sarvātmabhinnātmānaṃ svātmanā' in manuscript kha..; 'sarvātmābhinnamātmā ca sthāṇunā' in ja..

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[Variant reading note] 2 'bodhayecchaktau' in manuscripts kha.. and gha..

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[Variant reading note] 3 'dvādaśāntam' in manuscripts ga.. and ja..

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[Variant reading note] 4 'nyasya tatra yathākramam' in manuscript ga..; 'nyasya tatrābhivāhikam' in cha..; 'nyasya tatrābhivādakam' in ja..

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[Variant reading note] 5 'vāmeśvaram' in manuscript kha..; 'bāṇeśvaram' in ṅa..

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[Variant reading note] 6 'akāryakāraṇatve na' in manuscripts kha.. and cha..

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[Variant reading note] 7 'prayāmikāḥ' in manuscripts kha.. and cha..

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[Variant reading note] 8 'vyāpinañca svaśaktitaḥ' in manuscript jha..; 'vyāpinañcāsya saṃsravaiḥ' in ṅa..

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[Variant reading note] 9 'ajñāne ca' in manuscripts gha.. and jha..; 'aṅkādi ca' in ṅa..

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[Variant reading note] 10 'nirmañchya droṇamudrayā' in manuscript ga..; 'nirundhyād dravamudrayā' in jha..

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he should ritually deposit [it] into it with the Śiva-mantra in an all-pervading manner. / For the sake of presence, [performing] the fire oblation, sprinkling, touching, and recitation,

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having performed all the awakening of the divine presence by means of a three-fold division, / in this manner, ending with the material cause, he should install Him into the jar.

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Thus ends the one hundred and first chapter, entitled 'Consecration of Temple Rites', in the great Purāṇa of Agni.

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Now begins the one hundred and second chapter.

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The Raising of the Flag

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