Agnipurana 110
English (machine translation) 110
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110.1
Agni said: / I shall describe the greatness of the Gaṅgā; she should be served, granting worldly enjoyment and liberation. / The regions through the midst of which the Gaṅgā flows are pure and supreme.
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[Footnote marker]
110.1.p2
[Variant 1: The reading from "tīrthaṃ kaṇakhalam" up to "kālikāsaṅgamuttamam" is absent in ms. cha]
110.1.p3
[Variant 2: "śrīparvataṃ kondragiriḥ" in ms. cha; "śrīparvataṃ kolagirim" in ms. ja]
110.1.p4
[Variant 3: "śṛṅgaverapuraṃ varam" in ms. gha]
110.1.p5
[Variant 4: The passage from "agnir uvāca / māhātmyaṃ sarvatīrthānām..." up to "naimiṣaṃ paramantīrthaṃ bhuktimuktipradāyakaṃ / ity āgneye mahāpurāṇe tīrthayātrāmāhātmyam" is absent in ms. jha; p. 374]
110.2
The Gaṅgā is the refuge for living beings who always seek a refuge;
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always
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served, the Gaṅgā delivers both ancestral lines.
110.3
Drinking the water of the Gaṅgā is superior to a thousand cāndrāyaṇa penances. / Having attended upon the Gaṅgā for a month, one attains the fruit of all sacrifices.
110.4
The goddess removes all sins and bestows the world of heaven. / As long as one's bone remains in the Gaṅgā, for so long he resides in heaven.
110.5
Even the blind and the like, by serving her, attain equality with the gods. / One who bears the mud arising from the sacred ford of the Gaṅgā destroys sins like the Sun.
110.6
By seeing, touching, drinking, and likewise by calling out “Gaṅgā,” / she purifies virtuous men by hundreds and by thousands.
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Thus ends the one hundred and tenth chapter, entitled “The Greatness of the Gaṅgā,” in the great Agni Purāṇa.
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Now begins the one hundred and eleventh chapter:
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The Greatness of Prayāga.
Other recensions (1)
- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
Linked texts (1)
- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit