Agnipurana 263

English (machine translation) 263

Language: English

263.5 — 2 parts
263.15 — 4 parts
263.26 — 2 parts
263.28 — 1 part
263.29 — 3 parts

263.1

Puṣkara said: / I will speak of the rite consisting of worship of the gods and the like, which crushes portents. / Having bathed, one should offer water offering to Viṣṇu with the three verses beginning with 'āpo hi ṣṭhā'.

263.2

And foot-water with the three verses beginning with 'hiraṇyavarṇāḥ', O twice-born, / sipping water with 'śaṃ na āpaḥ', and aspersion with 'idam āpaḥ'.

263.3

Perfume with the three verses 'rathe akṣe', garment with 'yuvā', / flower with 'puṣpavatī', and incense with 'dhūpo 'si'.

263.4

Lamp should be offered with 'tejo 'si śukram', and madhuparka with 'dadhikrāvṇaḥ'. / Eight verses beginning with 'hiraṇyagarbhaḥ' are prescribed for offering

263.5

food, O best of men, and fragrant drink; / likewise a flywhisk, fan, shoes, parasol, vehicle, and seat.

263.5.p1

[Footnote]

263.5.p2

1. "gandhaṃ svadhā" thus in manuscripts ka, ga, gha, and ja. / [Page 464]

263.6

Whatever else there may be of this sort, one should offer with the Sāvitrī verse. / One should recite the Puruṣasūkta and also offer fire oblations with it.

263.7

In an image, or on an altar, in water, in a full water-jar, / on a riverbank, or upon a lotus, pacification arises from the worship of Viṣṇu.

263.8

Then fire oblation is to be performed when the fire is blazing, / having swept round, sprinkled round, and strewed [the altar] with strew-grasses.

263.9

Taking a portion of the foremost of all the food, one should then attentively offer fire oblations / to Lord Vāsudeva, the sovereign and imperishable;

263.10

to Agni, to Soma, to Mitra, and to Varuṇa; / to Indra, O noble one, and likewise to Indrāgni;

263.11

to the All-Gods, 'Homage to the Lord of Creatures'; / to Anumati, O Rāma, and likewise to Dhanvantari;

263.12

then to the goddess presiding over the home, and then to Agni Sviṣṭakṛt. / Having offered fire oblations to these with their names ending in the dative case, one should present the food offering.

263.13

On either side of Takṣa and Upatakṣa, and beyond that to the east of the fire, / O knower of righteousness, and then the names of the horses and the woolen-clad deities:

263.14

Nirundhī, Dhūmriṇīkā, Asvapantī, / and Meghapatnī—all these names indeed, O Bhārgava,

263.15

beginning with Agni in order. Then one should cast offerings to the powers: / to Nandinī, to Subhāgyā, and to Sumaṅgalā, O Bhārgava;

263.15.p1

[Footnote]

263.15.p2

1. The reading "sa caturthīkanāmnā" is correct.

263.15.p3

2. "aśvaparṇī" thus in manuscript ja.

263.15.p4

3. "meghaparṇī" thus in manuscript ja. / [Page 465]

263.16

then having given to Bhadrakālī, and likewise at the post to Śrī, / and to Hiraṇyakeśī, and also to Vanaspati;

263.17

to the two consisting of righteousness and unrighteousness at the door, and in the middle of the house to Dhruva; / one should give outside to Death, and to Varuṇa at a reservoir of water;

263.18

and outside to the spirits, and in the shelter to the Bestower of Wealth; / a man should give to the east to Indra and Indra's attendants;

263.19

he should give to the south to Yama and his attendants; / he should give to the west to Varuṇa and his attendants;

263.20

thereafter he should give to the north to Soma and Soma's attendants; / and likewise in the center he should give to Brahmā and Brahmā's attendants;

263.21

and likewise above in the sky, and on the ground to the sacrificial ground; / by day to those who roam by day, and at night to those who roam at night.

263.22

He should thus give the food offering outside every day, morning and evening. / He should make the offering of rice-balls in the morning; he should not do it in the evening.

263.23

He should give first to the father, immediately after to his father, / [then] to the paternal great-grandfather, then offer to his mother, [and] to the father's mother;

263.24

[and] to her mother; thus he should worship the ancestors on kuśa grass pointing south. / 'Those crows belonging to Indra, Varuṇa, Vāyu, Yama, or Nirṛti—

263.25

let them take this ball of food raised by me for the ancestors.' / With this mantra for the crow's ball of food, he should also cause a ball of food to be given to the dog:

263.26

'The two dark and brindled dogs born in the lineage of Vivasvat: / to them I shall give a ball of food; let them protect me always on the road.'

263.26.p1

[Footnote]

263.26.p2

1. "śyāmaśabalau" thus in manuscripts ja, ña, and ṭa. / [Page 466]

263.27

'May the daughters of Surabhi, beneficent to all, pure, destroyers of sin, / mothers of the three worlds, the cows, receive my morsel.'

263.28

Having offered the cow's morsel and recited an auspicious blessing, he should bestow alms. / Having honored guests and the afflicted, the householder may eat himself:

263.28.p1

'Oṃ bhūḥ svāhā! Oṃ bhuvaḥ svāhā! Oṃ svaḥ svāhā! Oṃ bhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥ svāhā! / Oṃ, you are the expiation of sin committed against the gods, svāhā! Oṃ, you are the expiation of sin committed against the ancestors, svāhā! Oṃ, you are the expiation of sin committed against oneself, svāhā! Oṃ, you are the expiation of sin committed against humans, svāhā! Oṃ, you are the expiation of sin upon sin, svāhā! And whatever sin I have committed knowingly, and whatever unknowingly, of all that sin you are the expiation, svāhā! To Agni Sviṣṭakṛt, svāhā! Oṃ, to Prajāpati, svāhā!'

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