Agnipurana 124

English (machine translation) 124

Language: English

124.8 — 4 parts
124.18 — 4 parts
124.24 — 10 parts

124.1

The Essence of the Science of Astral Lore in the Ocean of Victory in War / Agni said: / I shall state the essence of the science of astral lore and other [teachings] in the Ocean of Victory in War, / without mantras, medicinal herbs, and so forth, just as Īśvara told Umā.

124.2

The goddess said: / Tell that means by which the demons were conquered by the gods, / the knowledge [discriminating] auspicious and inauspicious, [called] the Ocean of Victory in War.

124.3

Īśvara said: / By the will of the Primal Deity, the fifteen-syllabled Śakti was born; / from her was born the moving and unmoving world. Having worshipped her, one knows all things.

124.4

I shall proclaim the throne of mantras, arisen from five mantras; / those mantras abide in the life and death of all mantras.

124.5

They are the divine mantras named Ṛg, Yajus, Sāman, and Atharvan in order, / the mantras beginning with Sadyojāta, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Rudra,

124.6

Īśa, the seven-crested deities, Indra and the others, and the five vowels: / a, i, u, e, o, and the kalās; this is declared to be the root, Brahman.

124.7

Just as fire inside wood is not seen when unmanifest, / so the Śiva-Śakti present in the body is not seen.

124.8

First arose Śakti, adorned with the sound of the syllable Om; / from that, O great goddess, the bindu was established with the letter E.

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[Notes]

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1 gha reads: īśvaro 'vadat.

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2 ja reads: dānavādyāḥ.

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3 kha and ga read: yāmārādhyākhilātmavit.

124.9

Nāda arose, the letter U, which sounds abiding in the heart; / the half-moon is the letter I, which makes known the path to liberation.

124.10

The manifested letter A arose, supreme, granting worldly enjoyment and liberation. / In the sovereignty of the letter A, the earth and the kalā Nivṛtti are remembered;

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it is the seed of smell, named prāṇa; the iḍā channel is remembered as firm Śakti. / The letter I is named Pratiṣṭhā, taste, pāla, and piṅgalā;

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the fierce Śakti is the seed Ī; the seed Hara has the form of fire; / Vidyā is samāna, gāndhārī; and the Śakti is remembered as the consuming fire.

124.13

Praśānti is water, touching, and what is udāna, active motion. / The syllable Om is named Śāntyatītā; space, sound, herd, hands.

124.14

The five classes [of consonants] and vowels arose, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, / and Saturn in order, beginning with the letter A; those beginning with the letter Ka are placed below.

124.15

From this root, everything moving and unmoving is known. / I shall explain the throne of knowledge; the praṇava is declared to be Śiva.

124.16

Umā is the Moon, herself Śakti, and Vāmā, Jyeṣṭhā, and Raudrī; / Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Rudra in order, the qualities, and the three beginning with creation.

124.17

And the triad of jewel channels, gross, subtle, higher, and lower; / one should meditate on that white-colored form releasing supreme nectar.

124.18

One should meditate on that day and night as flooding oneself; / agelessness will result, O goddess, and one attains the state of Śiva.

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[Notes]

124.18.p2

1 ja reads: bhogamokṣapradaḥ śubhaḥ.

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2 ka and ṅa read: bahunāḍītrayañcaiva.

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3 ja reads: śivatvamadhigacchati.

124.19

One should place the bodily limbs beginning with the thumbs, and the eye in the center of the body; / having then worshipped Mṛtyuñjaya, one becomes victorious in battle and elsewhere.

124.20

Void and baseless is sound; touch contacts obliquely. / The movement of form is said to be upward; that of water rests downward.

124.21

Smell is free from all locations, and in the center is the root. / At the root of the navel rests the bulb, adorned with the form of Śiva,

124.22

with an array of powers; the Moon, the Sun, and Hari reside there, / endowed with the ten winds, adorned with the five subtle elements,

124.23

resembling the fire of time, flashing forth, having the nature of Śiva. / That is the life of the world of living beings, of both the stationary and the moving.

124.24

When that is destroyed, I consider [life] dead in the throne of mantras, consisting of wind. // 24

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Thus ends the one hundred and twenty-fourth chapter, entitled "The Essence of the Science of Astral Lore in the Ocean of Victory in War," in the great Agni Purāṇa.