Agnipurana 20
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20.1
Agni said: / The first creation should be known as that of Mahat, which belongs to Brahmā. / The second is that of the subtle elements, known as the elemental creation.
20.2
The third creation, originating from modification, is known as that of the sense organs. / Thus this is the primary creation, which arose preceded by intelligence.
20.3
The fourth creation is the primary; the immobile beings are known as the primary. / That which is proclaimed as having an oblique flow of life is remembered as that of the animals.
20.4
Likewise, the sixth, that of beings with an upward flow of life, is known as the creation of the gods; / then the seventh creation, of beings with a downward flow of life, is that of humans.
20.5
The eighth is the benevolent creation, which is characterised by goodness and darkness. / These five are secondary creations, and three are known as primary.
20.6
The ninth is the Kaumāra creation, both primary and secondary.
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These are the nine creations from Brahmā, the root causes of the universe.
20.7
Khyāti and other daughters of Dakṣa were married by Bhṛgu and others. / Creation is described by people as threefold: perpetual, occasional, [and causal].
20.8
The elemental [dissolution] and the daily [dissolution] occur after an intermediate dissolution; / that creation which takes place daily is considered the perpetual creation.
20.9
Khyāti bore to Bhṛgu two gods, Dhātṛ and Vidhātṛ, / and Śrī, who is the consort of Viṣṇu, praised by Śakra for prosperity.
20.10
To Dhātṛ and Vidhātṛ were born two sons respectively, Prāṇa and Mṛkaṇḍu; / from Mṛkaṇḍu was born Mārkaṇḍeya, and from him Vedaśiras.
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And Paurṇamāsa was the son of Marīci through Sambhūti. / Through Smṛti, Aṅgiras had sons, and Sinīvālī and Kuhū,
20.12
as well as Rākā and Anumati. Through Anasūyā, Atri also fathered / Soma, the son Durvāsas, and the yogin Dattātreya.
20.13
Through Prīti, wife of Pulastya, Dattoli was his son. / Through Kṣamā, from Pulaha were born Sahiṣṇu, Karmapāda, and the rest.
20.14
And through Sannati, Kratu had the Vālikhilyas of great splendor; / they are merely the size of a thumb-joint, sixty thousand in number.
20.15
And through Ūrjā, from Vasiṣṭha came Rāja, Gātra, Ūrdhvabāhu, / Savana, Anagha, Śukra, and Sutapas—the seven ṛṣis.
20.16
Pāvaka, Pavamāna, and Śuci were born of Agni and Svāhā.
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[Footnote]
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1. "kumāryām" is the reading in the manuscript marked kha.
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2. "rajogotrordhvāhukaḥ" is the reading in the manuscript marked kha; "rājā śātrordhvabālakaḥ" in ga; "rajogotrordhvavāhakaḥ" in ṅa.
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3. "sabalaścānaghaḥ śukraḥ" is the reading in the manuscript marked gha. / [p. 51]
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The Agniṣvāttas and Barhiṣads, without sacred fires and with sacred fires, were born [of Brahmā].
20.17
And from the Pitṛs through Svadhā were born two daughters, Menā and Vaidhāriṇī. / But Hiṃsā was the wife of Adharma; to the two of them was born Anṛta,
20.18
and the maiden Nikṛti; from those two came Bhaya and Naraka, / and Māyā and Vedanā; this indeed is the pair born of these two.
20.19
Then to those two was born Māyā; [and] Mṛtyu, who carries off living beings; / and Vedanā bore a son, Duḥkha, from Raurava.
20.20
From Mṛtyu were born Vyādhi, Jarā, Śoka, Tṛṣṇā, and Krodha. / And from Brahmā, weeping, was born [a son] who was called Rudra because of his crying.
20.21
The Grandfather spoke to him as Bhava, Śarva, then Īśāna, / and Paśupati, O twice-born, and Bhīma, Ugra, and Mahādeva.
20.22
And out of wrath at Dakṣa, his wife Satī abandoned her body; / becoming the daughter of Himavat, she again became the wife of Śambhu.
20.23
The rites of worship preceded by bathing and the like, spoken of by Nārada and others to the ṛṣis, / having been performed by Svāyambhuva and others, bestow worldly enjoyment and liberation with respect to Viṣṇu and others.
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Thus ends the twentieth chapter, named "Description of the Creation of the Universe," in the venerable Agni Mahāpurāṇa.
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Now, the twenty-first chapter.
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Instruction on General Worship
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