[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Agnipurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt) › 163 # Agnipurana 163 English (machine translation) 163 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [163.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.6) — 1 part - [163.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.17) — 2 parts - [163.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.28) — 3 parts - [163.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.37) — 6 parts - [163.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.42) — 3 parts ### [163.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.1) Puṣkara said: / I shall declare the rules for the ancestral rite, which grant worldly enjoyment and liberation; listen. / Having invited the brāhmaṇas on the preceding day in the afternoon with a welcome, ### [163.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.2) he should seat an even number facing east on a seat for the gods, and for the ancestors, / an odd number facing east for the gods, or three for the ancestors, or even one. ### [163.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.3) The procedure is the same for the maternal grandfathers, or the rite for the gods may be common to both. / Having offered water for washing hands and also kuśa grass for seats, ### [163.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.4) he should invoke \[the deities\], being permitted, with the verse "viśve devāsaḥ". / Having scattered barley grains into a vessel containing a purifier, ### [163.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.5) pouring water with "śan no devī" and barley with "yavo 'si", / he should indeed pour the water offering into the hand with the mantra "yā divyāḥ". ### [163.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.6) Having offered water, perfume, a garland, the presentation of incense, and a lamp, / then placing the sacred thread over the right shoulder, he performs the rites counter-clockwise for the ancestors. ### [163.6.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.6.p1) \[p. 150\] ### [163.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.7) Having folded kuśa grasses double, he invokes the ancestors with the verse "uśantas tvā"; / having been permitted by them, he should then recite "ā yāntu naḥ". ### [163.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.8) The purposes of barley are to be served with sesame seeds; he should perform the water offering and other rites as before. / Having offered the water offering and poured the remaining wash-waters into a vessel according to rule, ### [163.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.9) he turns the vessel upside down below with "pitṛbhyaḥ sthānam asi". / Taking food steeped in clarified butter, he asks, "I shall make the offering into fire." ### [163.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.10) Having been permitted with "Perform it!", having offered into fire as in the ancestral sacrifice, / attentive, he should distribute what remains of the oblation into the dishes, ### [163.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.11) which are obtained according to means, but especially silver ones. / Having offered the food, consecrating the vessel with "pṛthivīpātram", ### [163.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.12) and having recited "idam viṣṇuḥ", he should place the brāhmaṇa's thumb in the food. / Having recited the Gāyatrī with the sacred utterances and the triplet "madhu vātāḥ", ### [163.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.13) he should say, "Eat at your ease," and they should eat, restraining their speech. / Having recited the purifier, he should give the food they desire and sacrificial food. ### [163.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.14) Taking the food, \[he asks,\] "Are you satisfied?" and \[they reply,\] "Let the remainder of the food be his." / He should scatter that food on the ground and offer water once each time. ### [163.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.15) Taking all the food mixed with sesame, facing south, / he should offer rice balls near the leftovers, as in the ancestral sacrifice. ### [163.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.16) He should do likewise for the maternal grandfathers; then he should give sipping-water. / Then he should recite the svasti-blessing and offer water for imperishable satisfaction. ### [163.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.17) Having given the sacrificial fee according to ability, he should utter the word "svadhā". / Being permitted with "Let it be uttered", \[he says,\] "Let svadhā be uttered to one's own ancestors!" ### [163.17.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.17.p1) \[Footnote\] ### [163.17.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.17.p2) 1 The text beginning with "mātāmahānām" and ending with "svapitṛbhyaḥ svadhocyatām" is absent in manuscript jha. / \[p. 151\] ### [163.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.18) When they say, "Let there be svadhā," he should then sprinkle water on the ground, / or he should offer water to the divine All-Gods with "May they be pleased!" ### [163.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.19) "May our benefactors prosper, and also the Vedas and progeny; / and may our faith never waver, and may we have much to give." ### [163.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.20) Having spoken these pleasant words and bowed down, he should dismiss them. / The dismissal is preceded by the ancestors being pleased, with "vāje vāje". ### [163.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.21) Having turned upright that ancestral vessel in which the wash-waters were previously collected, / he should dismiss the brāhmaṇas. ### [163.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.22) Having circumambulated them and walked after them, and having eaten what was enjoyed by the ancestors, / he should remain celibate for that night, together with the brāhmaṇas. ### [163.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.23) Having circumambulated thus, at an auspicious occasion he should worship the Nāndīmukha ancestors / with rice balls mixed with curds and jujube fruits; the rite is performed with barley. ### [163.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.24) The rite for a single ancestor is devoid of the rite for the gods, has a single water offering and a single purifier, / is without invocation and the offering into fire, and is performed with the sacred thread over the right shoulder. ### [163.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.25) Instead of "akṣayya", he says "upatiṣṭhatām"; at the dismissal of the ancestors, / he should say, "Be pleased!", and they should say, "We are pleased." ### [163.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.26) He should prepare four vessels supplied with scented water and sesame seeds; / into the ancestors' vessels meant for the water offering, he should pour the vessel for the newly deceased, ### [163.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.27) with the two verses "ye samānāḥ"; the rest he should perform as before. / This is the rite of sapindisation, or the rite for a single deceased woman. ### [163.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.28) He whose sapindisation takes place within a year— ### [163.28.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.28.p1) \[Footnote\] ### [163.28.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.28.p2) 1 "pitṛpūrvaṃ visarjayet" in kha, cha, and jha. ### [163.28.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.28.p3) 2 "stryā api" in kha and cha. / \[p. 152\] ### [163.28\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.28_2) food and a water-pot should be given to a brāhmaṇa for him for a year. ### [163.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.29) And the rite is to be performed on the day of death every month for a year; / an ancestral rite is to be performed every year, just like the monthly food. ### [163.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.30) With sacrificial food \[they are satisfied\] for a month, but with milk-rice for a year; / with the meat of fish, deer, sheep, birds, goats, and spotted deer, ### [163.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.31) and with the meat of black buck, the ruru deer, wild boar, and hare, in that order, / the ancestors are completely satisfied with an increase of one month \[for each\] when they are offered. ### [163.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.32) Rhinoceros meat, large-scaled fish, food mixed with honey, / red meat, kālaśāka greens, and the meat of a rhinoceros or old goat, ### [163.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.33) and whatever one gives while staying at Gayā—all that is declared to grant infinity; / likewise on the thirteenth lunar day of the rainy season and in the Maghā constellation, without doubt. ### [163.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.34) A maiden, offspring, panegyrists, cattle, and pre-eminent sons, / clarified butter, agriculture, commerce, cloven-hoofed and single-hoofed beasts, ### [163.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.35) sons endowed with spiritual luster, gold and silver along with base metal, / pre-eminence among kin, and all desires the giver of ancestral rites obtains at all times. ### [163.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.36) On these \[days\] beginning with the first lunar day, excluding the fourteenth lunar day; / but for those who were killed by a weapon, \[an ancestral rite\] is offered on that \[fourteenth day\]. ### [163.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.37) Heaven, offspring, vigor, valor, land, and strength, / superiority among sons, good fortune, progeny, eminence, sons, ### [163.37.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.37.p1) \[Footnote\] ### [163.37.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.37.p2) 1 "mātsyāvihāriṇaurabhraśākunacchāgapārṣataiḥ" in cha. ### [163.37.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.37.p3) 2 "dattair iha" in gha, ṅa, and ña. ### [163.37.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.37.p4) 3 "madhumudgānnameva vā" in ṅa. ### [163.37.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.37.p5) 4 "sarvamānantyamaśnute" in gha and ṅa. ### [163.37.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.37.p6) 5 "svarṇam" in kha and cha. / \[p. 153\] ### [163.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.38) unobstructed authority, sons, trade, and progeny, / freedom from illness, fame, freedom from sorrow, the highest state, ### [163.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.39) wealth, knowledge, medical success, silver, cows, goats and sheep, / horses, and long life—\[all these\] he who properly performs the ancestral rite receives. ### [163.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.40) Beginning with Kṛttikā and ending with Bharaṇī, he obtains these desires. / The Vasus, Rudras, and sons of Aditi are the ancestors, the deities of the ancestral rite. ### [163.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.41) Gratified by the ancestral rite, they please the ancestors of men; / they grant long life, offspring, wealth, knowledge, heaven, liberation, pleasures, ### [163.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.42) and likewise sovereignty, when pleased, to men's forefathers. //42 ### [163.42.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.42.p1) Thus ends the one hundred sixty-third chapter, entitled 'Rules for the Ancestral Rite', in the great Agni Purāṇa. ### [163.42.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.42.p3) Now, the one hundred sixty-fourth chapter. ### [163.42.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163.42.p4) Fire Oblation to the Nine Planets ## Other recensions (1) - [Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni*nag.163.1) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Agnipurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni.163.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.163) · Pramāṇa