Agnipurana 300
English (machine translation) 300
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300.1
Agni said:
Śayyā, then Daṇḍin, the fire of Īśa with goats, and the four-faced [Brahmā]—
this seed-syllable, which accomplishes all ends, is stated for the purpose of the piṇḍa.
300.2
The long vowels [are used] for the limbs in all respects with the seed-syllables;
[with] the void, well-formed, poison, accompanied by the bindu, and complete.
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300.3
There are five seed-syllables of the troop, each having a great visible result:
‘Obeisance to Gaṇa, to Jaya, to Ekadaṃṣṭra, to Acalakarṇin, to Gajavaktra,
to Mahodarahasta.’
This fivefold limb is common to all; success will result from a master reciting one hundred thousand [times].
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‘To Gaṇādhipati, to Gaṇeśvara, to Gaṇanāyaka, to Gaṇakrīḍa.’
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One should worship the icons on the directional petals, as before, and the group of five limbs:
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‘To Vakratuṇḍa, to Ekadaṃṣṭra, to Mahodara, to Gajavaktra,’
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‘to Vikaṭa, to Vighnarāja, to Dhūmravarṇa.’
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One should worship these and the regents of the worlds in the cardinal and intermediate directions with the ritual gesture.
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The thumbs placed between the middle and forefingers, with both hands clenched in fists.
Four-armed, abundant in sweetmeats, equipped with staff, noose, and goad,
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bearing his tusk and food, red, holding a lotus, accompanied by a noose and goad—
one should worship him especially on the fourth [lunar day], and also daily.
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Made from the root of white arka, it yields all attainments with sesamum and clarified butter;
with rice, curd, honey, and clarified butter, fortune and subjugation will arise.
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Possessing sound, blood, life, and bodily elements, holding a staff, the fierce solar deity Mārtāṇḍa-Bhairava,
the bestower of dharma, wealth, pleasure, and liberation, is enclosed within the solar orb.
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The five icons are short [vowels], and his limbs are the long ones.
In the northeast, the sun is crimson like vermilion, loving his left half.
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In the corners beginning with the southeast are Mars, Saturn, Rāhu, and Ketu.
Having bathed according to the rules and worshipped the sun preceded by a water offering,
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in the northeast is Kṛtānta; the radiant remnants of the offering are offered to Caṇḍa.
Bezoar, saffron, water, red sandalwood, unhusked barley grains, and sprouts;
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300.12
bamboo seed, barley, rice, millet, sesamum, and mustard,
together with hibiscus flowers—having placed them in vessels and held them on the head,
300.13
having touched the ground with both knees, one should offer the water offering to the Sun.
Having worshipped the planets with nine pitchers consecrated by their own mantras,
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the bath is for pacifying planetary afflictions; having recited [the mantra of] the Sun, one obtains everything:
victory in battle. With Agni, with the seed-syllables, and with the bindu,
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having performed the ritual deposition from the crown to the feet, and having worshipped the root mantra with the ritual gesture
and one's own limbs according to the ritual deposition, one should meditate on oneself as the Sun.
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The meditation is yellow in killing and immobilising, white in nourishment,
black in rites for destroying enemies, and one should cause bewilderment like Indra's bow.
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One who is always devoted to consecration by aspersion, recitation, meditation, worship, and fire oblation
becomes radiant, victorious in heart, glorious, and attains victory upon the ocean and elsewhere.
300.18
Having deposited this [mantra] on betel or the like and recited it, one should give uśīraka;
touching with a hand deposited with the seed-syllable is considered to bring about subjugation.
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Thus in the great Purāṇa of Agni, the three hundredth chapter, named “Worship of the Sun.”
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Now, the three hundred and first chapter.
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Various Mantras
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- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
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- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit