Agnipurana 199
English (machine translation) 199
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199.1
Agni said:
I shall proclaim the seasonal votive observances that bestow worldly enjoyment and liberation upon you.
Whoever gives firewood during the four seasons beginning with the rainy season,
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and at the end gives an effigy cow of ghee, is a Brahmin observing the vow of Agni.
Maintaining silence at twilight, and giving a jar of ghee at the end of the month,
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and giving sesame seeds, a bell, and a garment, the observer of the Sārasvata vow becomes happy.
Bathing [the deity] with the five nectars and giving a cow for a year, one becomes a king.
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Eating only at night on the eleventh lunar day, one should offer cooked food in Caitra;
at the end of the month, the true observer of Viṣṇu's vow goes to Viṣṇu’s golden abode.
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Consuming milk pudding and giving a pair of cows, one shares in Śrī and becomes an observer of the goddess's vow.
One who eats only after offering to the ancestors and gods becomes a king.
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The annual votive observances have been described; I shall tell of the solstice votive observance.
At a solstice, a person reaches the heavenly realm by keeping a night vigil.
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And on a new moon day at a solstice, by worshipping Śiva and the Sun,
and at the northern solstice by bathing Keśava with a prastha of ghee,
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[Footnote]
199.7.p2
[Variant reading:] "sudhīḥ sārasvatavratī" in manuscripts kha, ga, gha, cha, and ṭa.
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[Variant reading:] "sarvavratāni coktāni" in manuscripts kha, cha, and ja.
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measuring thirty-two palas, one is freed from all sins.
Bathing [him] with ghee, milk, and so on at equinoxes and similar occasions, one attains [the fruit].
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For women, the Umā-vow on the third and eighth lunar days bestows fortune.
One should worship Gaurī and Maheśvara; she will obtain good fortune in marriage.
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Having worshipped Umā and Maheśvara, a woman obtains non-separation [from her husband] and other blessings.
A woman observing the Mūla-vow or the vow of the Lord of Umā,
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or any woman devoted to the Sun, will surely become a man [in the next life].
199.11.p1
Thus in the Great Purāṇa of Agni, the one hundred and ninety-ninth chapter, entitled ‘Various Votive Observances.’
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Now begins the two-hundredth chapter.
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The votive observance of giving lamps.
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- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
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- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit