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Agnipurana 30

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30.1

Nārada said:
In the central lotus one should worship Brahmā with his limbs, and in the eastern [lotus] Viṣṇu;
in the south-eastern lotus Prakṛti, and in the southern lotus Puruṣa.

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And to the south of Puruṣa, Fire; in the south-west, Wind in the western [lotus];
the Sun in the northern lotus; and the Ṛg[veda] and Yajur[veda] in the north-eastern lotus.

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And Indra and the others in the second [circuit], likewise in the sixteen-petaled lotus:
the Sāma[veda], the Atharva[veda], space, air, fire, and water,

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earth, mind, hearing, skin, eye;
tongue, smell, and the sixteenth, Bhūḥ and Bhuvaḥ.

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Mahaḥ, Janaḥ, Tapaḥ, Satya, and also the Agniṣṭoma,
the Atyagniṣṭoma, the Uktha, the Ṣoḍaśin, the Vājapeya,

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and having worshipped the Atirātra, one should worship the Āptoryāma;
mind, intellect, ego, sound, touch, form,

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taste, and smell in the twenty-four lotuses in due order;

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1 The reading in the manuscript marked kha is 'pratyagniṣṭomakam'; the reading in the manuscript marked ṅa is 'jyotiṣṭomakam'.
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the soul, the five lords of the mind, Prakṛti, and sound-subtle-element.

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and the forms of Vāsudeva and the rest, likewise consisting of ten principles,

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having worshipped the mind, hearing, and touch, and likewise sight and taste,

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smell, speech, hands, and feet in these thirty-two lotuses.

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In the fourth enclosure they are to be worshipped with their limbs and retinue.

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Having worshipped the anus and genitals, and the twelve lords of the months,

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one should worship the twenty-six beginning with Puruṣottama in the outer enclosure.

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In the lotus-wheel, the lords of the months should be worshipped in them in order.

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The primary constituents are eight, or six, or five, or others say four.

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Hear then how to sprinkle the powder when the maṇḍala is drawn:

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the pericarp should be yellow; all the lines should be white and even;

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in a two-cubit [diagram] they should measure a thumb['s breadth]; in a one-cubit [diagram] they should be half that, and white.

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[One should fill] the lotus with white, but the joints with black or dark green;

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the filaments should be red and yellow; one should fill the corners with red.

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One should decorate the yoga-seat as one wishes with all colors.

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One should adorn the pathway with creepers, canopies, leaves, and the like.

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At the doorway of the seat, with white; the decorative border with red [and] yellow;

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the secondary border with blue; and the corner conches with white.

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Filling has been described in the bhadraka [design]; thus is the filling in others.

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One should decorate a triangle with white, red, and black;

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a two-cornered [figure] with red and yellow; the navel with black in a wheel;

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the spokes with yellow and red; the dark-green rim with red.

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White, dark green, red, black, and yellow lines are on the outside.

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Rice powder and the like should be white; safflower and the like, red;

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with turmeric, yellow; black should be from burnt grain;

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dark green with śamī leaves and the like. By reciting one hundred thousand seed-syllables,

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with four hundred thousand of mantras, [and] with one hundred thousand the attainment of the vidyās [is achieved].

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Ten thousand of the buddhi-vidyās, and a thousand of the hymns of praise.

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First, by a hundred thousand [recitations], purification of the mantra and of oneself [is achieved];

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then, by another hundred thousand, the mantra becomes cultivated.

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Preliminary unmatched fire oblation of the seed-syllables has been declared.

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Preliminary service of mantras and the rest is declared to be by a tenth part.

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When a mantra is to be practiced further, one should perform a month-long votive observance:

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one should place the left foot on the earth and not accept a gift.

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Thus, by doubling or tripling [the practice], middling and highest attainments [are achieved].

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I shall declare the meditation on mantras by which the fruit born of the mantra arises.

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The gross form consists of sound; the external image is prescribed [as such].

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The subtle form consists of light; the mental [form] in the heart consists of thought.

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That which is devoid of thought is proclaimed as the supreme.

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The form of the Boar, the Lion, and the Śaktis is primarily gross.

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The form devoid of thought is declared to be that of Vāsudeva.

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The form of the others is traditionally regarded as being in the heart, consisting always of thought.

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The gross is called universal; the subtle is indeed characterized [by the linga-śarīra].

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The form devoid of thought is declared to be divine:

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abiding in the lotus of the heart, consciousness, imperishable light.

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One should meditate on the seed-syllable whose nature is the source, having the form of a kadamba blossom.

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Just as a lamp inside a pot, its spread obstructed,

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stands concentrated and alone, so does the lord of the mantra stand in the heart.

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Just as through a pot with many holes rays radiate out

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in corresponding measure, so the rays of the seed-syllable spread outside through the channels.

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Then, having made the divine body their own through radiance, they remain;

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the channels issuing from the heart are the realm of the sensory faculties.

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Among them, two channels partaking of Fire and Soma reside at the tip of the nose.

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Having thoroughly conquered the bodily breath through esoteric yoga,

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the mantra practitioner, devoted to recitation and meditation, attains the characteristics of the mantra.

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Having purified the gross elements and subtle elements, practicing yoga with desire,

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he obtains atom-sized minimization and the other [perfections]; and transcending them, detached,

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in the divine nature he is freed from the elements and from the grasp of the senses.

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:e Thus ends the thirtieth chapter, titled Description of the Maṇḍala and Others, in the venerable early Mahāpurāṇa, the Āgneya.

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:ś Now the thirty-first chapter.

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The Rite of Sprinkling.

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