Agnipurana 296

English (machine translation) 296

Language: English

296.2 — 1 part
296.6 — 3 parts
296.8 — 4 parts

296.1

Mastered by means of recitation and the like, it perpetually binds serpents. // 1

296.2

Possessing one, two, three, or four seed-syllables, and the five limbs of Kṛṣṇa's disc, / "To the Beloved of the cowherd maidens, svāhā!" accomplishes all objectives.

Oṃ, homage to the Blessed Rudra, the lord of the spirits! Guttva, guttva! Roar, roar! Whirl, whirl! / Release, release! Bewilder, bewilder! Burn, burn! Enter, enter, O golden bird! Rudra commands! Ṭha ṭha!

296.3

This mantra that agitates the underworld destroys poison through chanting. / When one is bitten by a biting snake, the one immediately bitten with wood, stone, or the like

296.4

for the pacification of the poison, [rubbing] the bite from the body with blazing red lotus and the like. / Śirīṣa seeds and flowers, calotropis milk, and the three pungents,

296.5

destroys poison through drinking, smearing, and applying as collyrium. / White pepper soaked in the juice of śirīṣa flowers,

296.6

through drinking, errhine, collyrium, and the like, undoubtedly destroys poison. / Koṣātakī, sweet flag, asafoetida, śirīṣa, mixed with calotropis milk,

296.6.p1

[Footnote]

296.6.p2

1. "gulu 2" in ms. ña..

296.6.p3

2. "jvālako kaladālinā" in ms. kha.. / p. 100

296.7

[and] the three pungents in equal water, removes poison through errhine and the like. / Powder of all parts of asafoetida and wild bitter gourd dispels poison through errhine.

296.8

Indrabalā, agnikā, droṇapuṣpī, tulasī, devikā, and sahā: / the three pungents smeared with their juice and powdered, when eaten, dispels poison. / The five parts of śirīṣa gathered on the dark fifth lunar day dispels poison.

296.8.p1

Thus ends the two hundred and ninety-sixth chapter, entitled "Mantras and Medicines that Remove Poison," in the great Agni Purāṇa.

296.8.p3

Now begins the two hundred and ninety-seventh chapter.

296.8.p4

Treatment of viper bites and others.

296.8.p5

Agni said:

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Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit

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Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit