Agnipurana 22
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22.1
Nārada said: / I shall explain the bath for rites and other duties. Having taken clay with the Nṛsiṃha [mantra], / and dividing it into two portions, one first performs the mental bath with one portion.
22.2
Having submerged oneself, sipped water, performed ritual deposition, and protected oneself with the Narasiṃha [mantra],
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[Footnote]
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1. In the manuscript marked kha, the reading is ‘hrīṃ tvaritāyai hrīṃ aiṃ klīṃ sau tripurā’.
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2. In the manuscript marked gha, the reading is ‘kṛtarakṣaṇaḥ’.
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One should then perform the prescribed ritual bath, preceded by breath control.
22.3
Meditating in one's heart on Hari with knowledge, indeed using the eight-syllable mantra, / [placing] the clay in threefold division on the palm, one secures the directions with [the clay] consecrated by the Narasiṃha [mantra].
22.4
With the sacred ford invoked through [water] consecrated by the Vāsudeva [mantra], one touches [the water]. / One should wipe the body with the mantras starting with the Vedas, and worship with the mūrti-mantra.
22.5
Having performed the sin-eradicating rite (aghamarṣaṇa) and put on dry garments, one should act: / performing ritual deposition with mantras, wiping oneself twice, and then taking water in the hand,
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Restraining one's breath with the Nārāyaṇa [mantra], smelling the water, one should release it. / Meditating on Hari in the water and then offering arghya water, one should recite the twelve-syllable [mantra]
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Hundreds of times, and other mantras in sequence, beginning with his yogapīṭha / down to the guardians of the directions, the sages, and the ancestral spirits (pitṛs),
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Men, and all living beings down to the immovable. / Having deposited and withdrawn the limb-mantras, one should proceed to the sacrificial chamber. / In this way, during other worship rituals, one should perform the bath using the mūlamantra and other mantras.
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Thus ends the twenty-second chapter in the venerable Mahāpurāṇa, the Āgneya, entitled ‘The Account of the Rules for Bathing’.
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Now, the twenty-third chapter.
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The account of the rules for worship.
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- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
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- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit