Agnipurana 154

English (machine translation) 154

Language: English

154.4 — 2 parts
154.15 — 3 parts
154.19 — 3 parts

154.1

Puṣkara said: / A brāhmaṇa may take four wives; a king, three; / a vaiśya, two, according to desire; and the lowest born, one wife.

154.2

All acts of dharma are not to be performed with a wife of another caste. / The hand is to be taken among women of the same caste; a kṣatriya woman should hold an arrow;

154.3

a vaiśyā should take a goad, and the lowest-born woman the skirt of a garment. / A maiden is to be given away only once; one who abducts her incurs the punishment of a thief.

154.4

For one intent on the sale of offspring, no expiation is prescribed. / The giving of a maiden, the union with Indrāṇī, the wedding, and the rite of the fourth day:

154.4.p2

1. "The union with a virtuous woman" is the variant in kha and cha.

154.5

this fourfold named rite is declared to constitute marriage. / If the husband is disappeared, dead, renounced, impotent, or degraded,

154.6

in these five misfortunes another husband is prescribed for women. / Upon his death, she should be given to a brother-in-law; in his absence, as she pleases.

154.7

The triad of Pūrvā asterisms, the Āgneya, the Vāyavya, the triad of Uttarā asterisms, / and the two Rohiṇīs—these asterisms are always commended in the foot.

One should not choose a maiden of the same gotra or same ancestral lineage, O descendant of Bhṛgu; / [she should be] beyond the seventh degree on the father's side and beyond the fifth from the mother's side.

154.9

The gift [of a maiden] after having invited a man endowed with good lineage and conduct is the Brāhma rite; / one born of that [union] always liberates his ancestors through the gift of the maiden.

154.10

So too, by the receipt of a pair of cattle, a marriage is said to be Ārṣa. / The Prājāpatya rite, which produces merit, is that where she is given when requested.

154.11

The Asura is inferior, by means of a bride-price; the Gāndharva is by mutual choice; / the Rākṣasa is by taking by battle; the Paiśāca is through deceit of the maiden.

154.12

On the day of marriage, one should purify [the earth] using clay from a potter; / having worshipped it at a reservoir of water with musical instruments and the like, [the women] should take the woman to the house.

154.13

Marriage should not be performed when Keśava is asleep, / nor in Pauṣa, Caitra, on Tuesday, or on an empty lunar day (riktā) or viṣṭi (karaṇa).

154.14

Nor when Venus or Jupiter has set; nor when the moon is afflicted by a planet; / not under a constellation joined with the Sun, Saturn, or Mars, nor when struck by Vyatīpāta.

154.15

Mṛgaśīrṣā (saumya), Maghā (pitrya), Svātī (vāyavya), Hasta (sāvitra), and Rohiṇī,

154.15.p1

154.15.p2

1 'vaivāhikebde' in gha, ṅa, ña, and ṭa.

154.15.p3

2 'vādyaughaiḥ' in ga, gha, and ña.
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154.15_2

the triad of Uttarās (Uttaraphālgunī, Uttarāṣāḍhā, Uttarabhādrapadā), Mūla, Anurādhā (maitra), and Revatī (pauṣṇa)—these are the marriage asterisms.

154.16

An ascendant called human (mānuṣa) and a navāṃśa called human are auspicious. / In the third, sixth, tenth, eleventh, and eighth [houses],

154.17

the Sun, Saturn, and Mercury (candratanaya) are praised; Mars in the eighth is not [praised]. / In the seventh, twelfth, and eighth divisions, the remaining excellent planets are praised.

154.18

Among them, Venus in the sixth is not commended. / The fourth-day rite (caturthikā) likewise should be performed under the marriage asterism.

154.19

Planets in the fourth and other houses, or occupying one [house], should not be given. / Avoiding the parvan days, one should approach his wife; sexual enjoyment given to a truthful wife is constant.

154.19.p1

Thus ends the one hundred and fifty-fourth chapter, named 'Marriage,' in the Great Purāṇa of Agni.

154.19.p3

Now begins the one hundred and fifty-fifth chapter.

154.19.p4

Right Conduct.

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