Agnipurana 289

English (machine translation) 289

Language: English

289.5 — 1 part
289.8 — 3 parts

289.1

Śālihotra said:
I shall explain the pacification rite for horses that crushes equine diseases.
Listen, Suśruta, to the three kinds: regular, occasional, and for specific desires.

289.2

On an auspicious day, having worshipped Śrīdhara, Śrī, and Uccaiḥśravas,
and that king of horses, one should offer ghee [into the fire] with mantras to Savitṛ.

289.3

One should give a sacrificial fee to twice-borns; thereby increase of horses will occur.
And on the fifteenth day of the bright fortnight of the month of Āśvina, the pacification rite

289.4

should be performed outside [the city] in particular. One should worship the two Nāsatyas and Varuṇa.
Having drawn [an image of] the goddess, one should surround it with branches.

One should place pots filled with all fluids, wrapped in cloth, in the cardinal directions.
Having worshipped, one should offer barley and ghee [into the fire], and worship the horses along with the Aśvins.

289.5.p1

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289.6

One should give a sacrificial fee to Brahmins. Now hear the occasional [rite].
At the entrance [of the sun] into Capricorn and other [astrological occasions], one should worship Viṣṇu and Śrī with lotuses for the sake of horses,

289.7

as well as Brahmā, Śaṅkara, Soma, Āditya, and the two Aśvins,
Revanta, Uccaiḥśravas, and the regents of the directions on the petals [of the lotus].

289.8

Each [should be worshipped] with full pots on the altar, in a place to the north of it.
One who has fasted should perform the rite that removes equine illness,
[offering] sesame, unhusked rice, ghee, and white mustard seeds a hundred times for each of the deities.

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Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit

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Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit

Agnipurana 289

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