Agnipurana 28
English (machine translation) 28
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- 28.5 — 3 parts
28.1
Nārada said: / I shall explain the consecration by aspersion whereby the spiritual son becomes an ācārya, / the practitioner enjoys spiritual attainment, and the diseased man is freed from illness.
28.2
A king obtains a kingdom, a woman a son; and it destroys impurities. / One should place the pitchers representing the deities, rich in fine jewels, beginning from the center and the east.
28.3
He should recite over them a thousand times or a hundred times. / In a pavilion, upon a maṇḍala, [having established] Viṣṇu on the pedestal in the east and northeast,
28.4
having seated the spiritual son, the practitioner, and others, and having performed the division of the body, / having worshipped, he should perform the consecration by aspersion, preceded by singing and the rest.
28.5
And he should give the throne of yoga and other [insignia], saying, 'People must be favored by you.' / And the guru should declare the pledges; then the disciple, protected, attains all.
28.5.p1
Thus ends the twenty-eighth chapter, entitled 'Consecration of the Ācārya by Aspersion', in the venerable Mahāpurāṇa composed by Agni.
28.5.p3
Now the twenty-ninth chapter.
28.5.p4
The Explanation of the Sarvatobhadra Maṇḍala
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- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
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- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit