Agnipurana 105

English (machine translation) 105

Language: English

105.1 — 7 parts
105.9 — 10 parts
105.17 — 12 parts
105.25 — 10 parts
105.27 — 5 parts
105.35 — 12 parts
105.39 — 3 parts

105.1

The Lord said: / For cities, villages, fortresses, and the like, and for the prosperity of houses and temples,

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one should certainly worship the site architecture with eighty-one squares for success.

105.2

There are ten cords facing east, and I will declare their names: / Śāntā, Yaśovatī, Kāntā, Viśālā, Prāṇavāhinī,

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Satī, Vasumatī, Nandā, Subhadrā, and Manoramā; / and twelve other [cords] facing north, making eighty-one squares:

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Hariṇī, Suprabhā, Lakṣmī, Vibhūti, Vimalā, Priyā, / Jayā, Jvālā, and Viśokā, remembered from the laying of the cords.

105.5

One should worship the eight groups of eight in the cardinal directions beginning with the northeast: Īśa, Dhanañjaya, / Śakra, Arka, as well as Satya, Bhṛśa, and Vyoma in the east,

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and Havyavāha as the eastern ones; Vitatha and Bhauma, / Kṛtānta, Gandharva, Bhṛga, and Mṛga in the south;

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Pitar, Dvārapāla, Sugrīva, Puṣpadantaka, / Varuṇa, Daitya, Śeṣa, and Yakṣman in the west always;

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Roga, Ahi, Mukhya, Bhallāṭa, Saubhāgya, Aditi, and Diti. / Brahmā occupies the nine inner squares, and those occupying six squares above are to be worshipped:

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the one named Āpa in the two squares situated between Brahmā and Īśa, / and below that, the one named Āpavatsa; in six squares in the intermediate spaces:

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Savitar stands on two squares between Marīci and Agni; / Sāvitrī below him on two divisions, and Vivasvān below on six squares;

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between Pitṛ and Brahmā [worship] Viṣṇu, Indu, Indra, and below them Jaya; / between Varuṇa and Brahmā one should worship the one named Mitra on six squares;

105.12

between Roga and Brahmā constantly [worship] Rudradāsa on two [squares]; / below him Yakṣma occupying two squares, and Dharādhara in the six northern squares.

105.13

Carakī, Skanda, Vikaṭa, Vidārī, Pūtanā in order, / Jāmbha, Pāpa, and Pilipiccha—one should worship [them] on the outside, beginning from the northeast.

105.14

The house consists of eighty-one squares, and the pavilion of one hundred squares; / the deities are to be worshipped as before, but Brahmā on sixteen portions.

105.15

Marīci, Vivasvān, Mitra, and Dharādhara / stand on ten squares in the cardinal directions, while others occupy the corners beginning with the northeast:

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the Mother of the Daityas, likewise Īśa and Agni, those named Mṛga, the two Pitṛs, / Pāpayakṣman and Anila—all these deities stand on one and a half portions.

105.17

I will declare in brief and in due order, O Guha, their dwellings and positions.

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[Variant readings]: 9. "tvanyeveśādike gaṇāḥ" in kha and cha.

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10. "daityamātā bhaveśāgnī" in kha; "daityamātā hareśāgnī" in gha and ja.

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with thirty cubits in length and twenty-eight in width.

105.18

The [temple] named Śiva has cold shelter, devoid of eleven [parts] in both [dimensions]; / its perimeters are doubled by eleven, except for three broad [divisions].

105.19

It should be twice nine [cubits] in length and fifteen in width; / the Sāvitra [temple] has a wall-enclosure, from the separate thirtieth parts of the others.

105.20

From the height of the wall-breadth and shank, the wall should be three times the height. / The broad corridor is equal to the wall-line, manifold according to divisions.

105.21

In a bhadra type, [it is] equal to the corridors, without a gate-corridor in front; / the Śrījaya type is deficient at the back; this bhadra type is without both flanks.

105.22

The corridor is equal to the width of the womb-chamber, or elsewhere half of its half; / with an auxiliary corridor of half a corridor, [a hall] provided with one, two, or three towers.

105.23

Now I shall declare common houses for all [castes], which grant all desires: / with one, two, three, four, or eight halls, in due order.

105.24

One [hall] is on the south facing north; if two, at the back facing east; / a four-halled house, however, is formed by their facing each other in the east and west quarters.

105.25

[There are rooms] facing Śiva [northeast] and facing the water-guardian [west]; in an east-facing one, [rooms in the directions of] Yama [south] and the Sun [east].

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2. "śivāśramaḥ śivākhyasya" in kha, gha, and jha;

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"śivāgrakaśivākhyasya" in ga; "śivāgragaḥ śivākhyasya" in ṅa and ja;

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4. "dairghyāt sāṣṭāviṃśativistarāt" in cha.

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5. "sāvitryālayaḥ kulāḥ" in kha; the text beginning with "sāvitra" up to "triguṇocchrayam" is not present in manuscript jha.

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6. "garbhapīṭhasamā" in kha, gha, and jha.

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7. "saumyāsyaṃ dve dve paścātpuromukham" in kha; "saumyākhyaṃ dve ca paścādadhomukham" in jha. / 8. [See manuscript notes on cosmological insertion below].

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When situated in the east and north, it is named Daṇḍa; in the east and south, it is called Vāta.

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In the west and north, it is called Gṛhavalī; a Triśūla causes depletion. / One devoid of an eastern hall is Sukṣetra, conferring prosperity.

When deficient in the south, it becomes a Śūlin; a three-halled house is supremely prosperous; / a house lacking [a hall on the side of] the water-guardian kills Yakṣas, slays sons, and generates many enemies.

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[Footnote]:

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"From the realm of truth... [a long cosmological passage found in manuscript ja describing the worlds, Brahmāṇḍa, Prakṛti, Puruṣa, Pātālas, and Śeṣa up to 'yamasūryakam']. In the manuscripts marked ka, kha, ga, gha, ṅa, cha, and jha consulted by me, this reading is not present after 'sāvitraḥ sālayaḥ'; in those, only the printed reading is found. Furthermore, in manuscript ja, the text between 'sāvitraḥ sālayaḥ' and 'indrāsyeyamasūryakam' is missing. The aforementioned text visible in manuscript ja lacks connection with what precedes and follows. It appears this reading belonging to another section has entered here through scribal error."

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