Agnipurana 159
English (machine translation) 159
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159.1
Puṣkara said: / For one consecrated or unconsecrated, heaven and liberation come from remembering Hari at death. / From casting the bones into the waters of the Gaṅgā, the deceased prospers.
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[Apparatus]
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1 āpātaḥ in manuscripts kha and cha.
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2 The reading beginning with ananepyevamevaṃ syād and ending with bhokturekamahonyathā is absent in the three manuscripts gha, jha, and ña. / [Page 141]
159.2
For as long as a person's bone remains in the water of the Gaṅgā, so long is their stay in heaven. / For those who commit suicide and those who have fallen, there are no rites.
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Yet for them too, the falling of their bones into the water of the Gaṅgā is beneficial. / Water and food offered to them vanishes in the sky.
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Out of great compassion for a deceased person or a fallen person, / the Nārāyaṇa-bali should be performed; through it, one obtains grace.
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The lotus-eyed one is imperishable; what is offered there does not perish. / Because he protects from falling, Janārdana is the recipient.
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For those who are falling, Hari alone is certainly the bestower of worldly enjoyment and liberation. / Seeing people dying, one should practice dharma as one's companion.
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Even a kinsman who has died cannot follow a dead man; / for, except for a wife, the path to Yama is different for everyone.
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Dharma alone accompanies him wherever he goes. / One should do today what is to be done tomorrow, and in the morning what is to be done in the afternoon.
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For death does not wait to see whether a person's work is done or not done. / Death seizes and carries off one who is attached to fields, markets, and homes,
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whose mind is directed elsewhere, as a wolf seizes and carries off a sheep. / Death has no favorite, nor does he possess any enemy.
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When life-span and karmic merit are exhausted, he forcefully snatches the person away. / One whose time has not come does not die, even when pierced by hundreds of arrows;
159.12
one whose time has come does not live, even if merely touched by the tip of a kuśa blade.
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[Apparatus]
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1 panthā vibhajyate in manuscript ga.
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2 dharma eva in manuscript ja. / [Page 142]
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Medicines, mantras, and the like do not protect one overtaken by death.
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Past karma certainly finds its doer, just as a calf [finds its mother]. / The universe has an unmanifest beginning, a manifest middle, and an unmanifest end.
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Just as childhood and [other stages occur] in the body, so is the arrival of another body. / Just as one takes on new, different clothing, so does the embodied self.
159.15
Since this embodied self is eternally indestructible, one should therefore cast off grief.
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Thus ends the one hundred and fifty-ninth chapter, entitled "Ritual Purity," in the great Āgneya Purāṇa.
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Now begins the one hundred and sixtieth chapter.
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The stage of life of the forest hermit.
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- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
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- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit