Agnipurana 299
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Agni said: / I shall explain the mantras and methods that remove seizing spirits, which crush seizing spirits. / From joy, desire, fear, grief, and the like, from eating incompatible and impure food,
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and from the wrath of elders, deities, and others, the five forms of insanity arise. / They are known as originating from the three bodily humors, from their combined vitiation, and from external causes.
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Seizing spirits such as gods were born in many forms from the anger of Rudra. / In rivers, lakes, ponds, and the like, on mountains, in groves, and on bridges,
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at river confluences, in deserted houses, at the mouths of caves, and under solitary trees, / the seizing spirits seize men, and women who are asleep or pregnant,
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those nearing menstruation, naked women, and one who takes the post-menstrual bath. / Dishonor, enmity among men, obstacles, adverse fortune,
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transgression against deities, elders, religious duty, and good conduct,
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[Footnote]
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1. In manuscripts ña and ṭa: "striyaḥ".
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falling from mountains, trees, and the like, shaking the hair repeatedly,
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weeping and dancing with red eyes, uttering the sound 'hūṃ'—such is a possessed man. / Agitated, afflicted with colic and burning, suffering from hunger and thirst, with a headache,
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the possessed man begs, 'Give, give!' longing for offerings of tribute. / A man seized by lustful spirits desires women, garlands, pleasures, and bathing.
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The great Sudarśana, sky-pervading, branch-nosed, / Pātāla-Nārasiṃha, and the Caṇḍī mantras crush seizing spirits.
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Pṛśnī, asafoetida, sweet flag, cakra, and siris are supreme favorites. / [One should meditate on] the god holding a noose and a goad, possessing a rosary and a skull,
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wielding a skull-staff, a lotus, and other powers, four-faced, / situated on an inner and outer skull-staff and lotus within the orb of the sun.
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Having first worshipped him accompanied by the Sun and others, one should offer the water offering when the sun has risen. / Breathing, poison, fire, Brahmin, water-pot, heart-letter, [and] Bhṛgu with all parts,
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for the Sun, 'Bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ', Jvālinī, and the family club. / Seated on a lotus, reddish, endowed with red garments and splendor, universal,
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noble, holding lotuses in two hands, gentle, adorned in all limbs; / the heart and other [limbs] are red, gentle, boon-granting, and holding lotuses.
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His garment resembles a cluster of lightning; [the Moon is] white and gentle; Mars is reddish; / Mercury is likewise; Jupiter is yellow; Venus is white; Saturn
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resembles black charcoal; Rāhu is declared smoky, [as is] Ketu. / With their left hands on the left thigh and granting fearlessness with the right hands,
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their seed-syllables begin with their own names. Having purified both hands with the weapon-mantra,
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[Footnote]
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1. In manuscript ña: "vipiṭanāsikaḥ".
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one should perform the ritual deposition of the heart and other limbs pervading the thumb and other [fingers], the palm, and the eyes.
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Having performed the ritual deposition of the vital breath along with the limbs using the three root seed-syllables, / washing the vessel with the weapon-mantra and filling it with water using the root mantra,
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depositing sandalwood paste, flowers, unbroken rice grains, and dūrvā grass, one should consecrate the water offering. / Having sprinkled oneself and the worship requisites with that, steadfastly,
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one should imagine in the center and in the intermediate directions, using the heart-mantra, the seats [beginning with] / the Abundant, the Pure, the Essence, the Worthy of Worship, and the Supreme Bliss.
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Upon the seat in the center, and in the cardinal and intermediate directions with the heart-mantra, / and upon the seat, the heart-lotus, with the eight powers in the filaments:
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Vāṃ Dīptā, Vīṃ Sūkṣmā, Vuṃ Jayā, Vūṃ Bhadrikā, / Veṃ Vibhūti, Vaiṃ Vimalā, Voṃ Amoghā,
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Vauṃ Vidyutā, Vaṃ Sarvatomukhī, and the seat Vaḥ; having worshipped these, one should worship the Sun. / Having invoked him, one should offer the foot-washing water and the rest with the heart and six limbs, O you of noble vows!
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The two kha-sounds, the staff-bearers, the Caṇḍas, marrow combined with teeth, / flesh, long [vowels], the ancient wind, and the heart: this yields all things for the Sun.
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The heart and other limbs are to be worshipped in the directions of Fire, Īśa, Rakṣas, and the Wind, / each with their own mantras, stationed within the pericarp; the weapon is in the cardinal directions, facing in front.
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The Moon, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus are to be worshipped in the directions beginning with the east. / One should administer errhines, collyrium, and the like, with goat's urine, which dispel seizing spirits.
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Ghee cooked with pāṭhā, chebulic myrobalan, sweet flag, drumstick tree, rock salt, and ginger-black pepper-long pepper, with different fruits, / in an āḍhaka measure of goat's milk, removes all seizing spirits.
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Heliotropium, Callicarpa macrophylla, saussurea, salts, and śārṅgaka: / for the destruction of epilepsy, one should administer that water as food.
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One should administer milk boiled with a decoction of vidārī, kuśa grass, kāśa grass, and sugarcane, / or ghee refined in a droṇa of juice of licorice and ash gourd,
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or likewise five-cow ghee. Listen to the formulation that removes fever:
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Om, we know the weapon of ash; we meditate on the single-tusked one; may that Fever impel us!
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One should lick [a paste of] long pepper, black pepper, turmeric, pluchea, raisins, oil, and jaggery;
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or one suffering from asthma [should lick] clerodendrum with licorice, honey, and ghee; / or one should lick pāṭhā, picrorhiza, long pepper, and clerodendrum with honey.
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Myrobalan, dry ginger, sugar, long pepper, mustā, date, māgadhī,
and pivara: one should lick these three together with honey to destroy hiccups.
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One suffering from jaundice should drink the juice of cumin, māṇḍūkī, turmeric, and myrobalan.
Trikatu, padmaka, triphalā, viḍaṅga, devadāru,
and powder of rāsnā eaten in equal parts with sugar definitely relieves cough.
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Thus in the great Purāṇa of Agni, the two hundred and ninety-ninth chapter, named “Mantras for Relieving Planetary Afflictions and Other Rites.”
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Now, the three hundredth chapter.
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Worship of the Sun
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