Agnipurana 202
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202.1
Agni said:
Hari is pleased by flowers, fragrant scents, incense, lamps, and food offerings.
I will tell you the flowers suitable for the gods and those unsuitable.
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Mālatī is an excellent flower; tamāla brings worldly enjoyment and liberation;
mallikā destroys all sins; yūthikā grants the realm of Viṣṇu;
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likewise, atimukta; pāṭalā grants the realm of Viṣṇu;
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with karavīra blossoms one goes to Viṣṇu's realm, and with javā flowers one becomes meritorious;
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with pāvantī, kubjaka, and others, and with tagara flowers, one attains the realm of Viṣṇu;
with karṇikāra flowers the realm of Viṣṇu is attained; with karuṇṭha flowers sins are destroyed;
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and with padmas, ketakīs, and kunda flowers the highest state [is reached];
with vāṇa flowers, varvarās, and kṛṣṇās, one attains the realm of Hari;
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likewise with aśokas, tilakas, and flowers produced from aṭarūṣa;
one shares liberation through bilva leaves; through śamī leaves, the highest state [is attained];
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one attains the realm of Viṣṇu with bhṛṅgarāja and leaves of tamāla;
with tulasī called dark and pale, and kalhāra and utpala lotuses,
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meritorious white padma and red water-lily, with a garland of a hundred lotuses Hari [is pleased];
and with fragrant blossoms of nīpa, arjuna, kadamba, and vakula;
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with kiṃśukas, munipuṣpas, gokarṇas, and nāgakarṇas,
with sandhyāpuṣpas, bilvatakas, and those born of rañjanī and ketakī;
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with those from pumpkin, timira, and those born of kuśa, kāśa, and śara grass,
with maruvaka, dyūta, and others, and with other fragrant leaves.
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Worldly enjoyment, liberation, and destruction of sins [occur]; he is pleased with all through devotion.
A flower is greater than a hundred thousand [measures of] gold; a garland is a ten-million-fold greater.
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With flowers from one's own forest or another's forest, three-fold fruit [is attained] through forest-grown ones.
One must not worship Viṣṇu with withered, malformed, or broken [flowers],
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nor with kāñcanāra, unmatta, or girikarṇikā;
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[Note]
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1. Manuscript ṅa reads: "partaking of liberation with kadamba flowers".
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2. Manuscripts kha, ṅa, cha, and ja read: "with those born of night and ketakī flowers".
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3. Manuscript ṅa reads: "the fruit with water-born [flowers]".
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[Offerings of] kuṭaja, silk-cotton and śirīṣa flowers lead to hell and the like.
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Hari is worshipped with fragrant brahmapadma blossoms and blue lotuses; / Hara is worshipped with flowers of arka, mandāra, and dhattūra.
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One should not offer kuṭaja flowers, karkaṭī blossoms, or ketakī to Śiva; / [nor] what is produced from pumpkins and nīm, nor what belongs to Piśācas or is devoid of fragrance.
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Non-violence, mastery of the senses, patience, knowledge, compassion, and sacred learning— / worshipping the gods with [these] eight mental flowers, one attains worldly enjoyment and liberation.
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Non-violence is the first flower; restraint of the senses is a flower; / compassion towards living beings is the all-flower; peace is considered an excellent flower;
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tranquillity is a flower; ascetic austerity is a flower; meditation is the seventh flower; / and truth is the eighth flower: Keśava is pleased with these.
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Hari, when worshipped with these eight flowers alone, is indeed pleased. / There are other flowers here that are external, O best of men:
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Viṣṇu is fully pleased when worshipped with devotion by those endowed with compassion. / Water is the flower belonging to Varuṇa; ghee, milk, and curd belong to Soma;
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grain and the like belong to Prajāpati; incense and lamps belong to Agni; / and fruits, flowers, and the like are the fifth, belonging to forest trees;
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kuśa grass, roots, and the like belong to the earth; perfume and sandalwood belong to Vāyu.
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[Note]
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1. 'śālmalijaiś ceti' in manuscripts kha, ga, and ṅa.
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2. 'sugandhaiḥ patrapuṣpaiś ceti' in manuscript ṅa.
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3. 'pūjyo nīlotpalair harir iti' in manuscripts kha, ga, ṅa, and ja.
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4. 'ahiṃsā indriyayama iti' in manuscript ga.
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5. 'kṣāntir dānam iti' in manuscript kha.
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6. The reading beginning with 'ahiṃsā prathamaṃ puṣpam' up to 'pūjitaḥ parituṣyati' is absent in manuscripts kha, ga, gha, ṅa, cha, ja, ña, and ṭa.
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The flower of Viṣṇu named faith and the constant eightfold flowers [are offered].
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The seat, the five parts of the icon, or Viṣṇu [himself], with the eightfold flowers; / of Viṣṇu, with [the mantras of] Vāsudeva and others, or of Śiva, with those of Īśāna and others.
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Thus in the Agni Mahāpurāṇa, the two hundred and second chapter, entitled 'The Chapter on Flowers'.
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Now, the two hundred and third chapter:
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The Nature of Hells.
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- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
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- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit