Agnipurana 301

English (machine translation) 301

Language: English

301.1 — 3 parts
301.6 — 2 parts
301.11 — 1 part
301.23 — 1 part
301.25 — 1 part
301.26 — 3 parts

301.1

Agni said:
Joined with speech and action on both sides, for the sake of the offspring of Śukra, a vessel is considered;
ending with fire, this is the prime vidyā Sarasvatī of the region's letters.

301.1.p3

2. ‘vidyutpātavidhau’ in manuscripts gha, ja, ña, and ṭa.
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301.2

One should recite one hundred thousand letters continuously; one becomes endowed with good intellect.
Atri with Agni, the left eye, and the bindu; followed by the heart for Indra.

301.3

Having invoked yellow Indra bearing the thunderbolt and the lotus, one should worship him.
One should offer a million clarified butter and sesamum oblations, and consecrate him with that.

301.4

A king or similar person fallen from his kingdom obtains his kingdom, sons, and the like.
The Hṛllekhā is named the Śakti deity; the fire of fault, having a staff and a punisher.

Having worshipped Śiva, one should recite the Śakti [mantra] from the eighth to the fourteenth [lunar day]—
[meditating on her] bearing a discus, noose, and goad, accompanied by the gesture of fearlessness, and granting boons.

301.6

By fire oblation and other rites, one attains good fortune, poetic skill, and becomes master of a city.

301.6.p1

“Oṃ hrīṃ oṃ, obeisance to Kāma, who brings welfare to all beings, who enchants all beings, who is blazing forth; bring the heart of all beings into my power! Bring it! Oṃ.”

301.6_2

Through recitation and other practices with this mantra, one can subjugate the entire world.

301.6.p2

“Oṃ hrīṃ Cāmuṇḍā, burn so-and-so! Burn! Cook! Cook! Bring [them] into my subjugation! Bring [them]! Ṭha ṭha!”

301.7

This is proclaimed as the subjugation mantra of Cāmuṇḍā.
For subjugation, one should wash the pudendum with a decoction of the three fruits.

301.8

A woman [is subjugated] by aśvagandhā and barley with turmeric, camphor, and other [ingredients],
eight grains of long pepper, and twenty black peppercorns.

301.9

Anointment with the juice of bṛhatī brings about subjugation until death;
likewise, an anointment of the root of kaṭīra, trikatu, and honey will do so.

301.10

Camphor, wood-apple shoot, long pepper, madhuka, and honey—
anointment of these applied brings welfare to husband and wife.

301.11

By anointment of the vagina with sugar, juice of kadamba, and honey,
sahadevī, mahālakṣmī, putrajīvī, and kṛtāñjali—

301.11.p1

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301.12

this powder thrown upon the head yields supreme subjugation of a person.
A prastha of the decoction of triphalā and sandalwood, and two kuḍavas each

301.13

of juice of bhṛṅgarāja, gold, juice of nightshade, cuñcuka, and honey,
cooked with clarified butter, dried in the shade of night; this paste is delightful.

301.14

One who drinks powder of vidārī, uccaṭā, and black gram, mixed with sugar
and cooked in milk, can continuously visit a hundred women.

301.15

Mixed with milk and sugar, the powder of gulma, black gram, sesamum, and rice,
and the root of aśvattha, bamboo, and darbha grass, for Vaiṣṇavī and Śrī.

301.16

A woman desiring a son should drink milk with the root derived from dūrvā and aśvagandhā;
the root of kauntī, lakṣmī, myrobalan, vajra, iron-destroyer, and a shoot of the banyan tree.

301.17

It should be drunk by a woman for three days in clarified butter, milk, and nectar for the sake of a son.
A woman desiring a son should drink milk with bilva root and a banyan shoot.

301.18

She should drink or use as nasal drops the juice of bilva, banyan shoot, and the goddess [plant];
the root of white lotus with milk, joined with the northern root of an aśvattha tree,

301.19

liquid mixed with milk, cotton fruit sprout,
and fresh tip of an apāmārga flower together with buffalo milk.

301.20

And four formulations are declared with three herbs for obtaining a son: / sugar, water-lily flower, bibhītaka, lodhra, sandalwood, and sārivā.

301.21

When a woman is having a miscarriage, they should be given with rice water. / Or she should lick puffed grain, liquorice, white sugar, grapes, honey, and ghee.

301.22

Vāsā, kalāṅguli, and the root of kākamācī applied separately / below the navel, a woman gives birth with ease.

301.23

One should drink red [and] white hibiscus flowers during red [or] white vaginal discharge.

301.23.p1

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301.23_2

Saffron, bṛhatī root, anantamūla, liquorice, tṛṇotpala,

301.24

eaten with goat's milk and oil, causes the growth of hair. / And when the hair is falling out, this serves to stabilise it.

301.25

A prastha of āmalakī and bhṛṅgarāja juice with oil, and an āḍhaka of milk.

301.25.p1

Oṃ, obeisance to the blessed Tryambaka! Calm, calm! Culu, culu! Mili, mili! Bhida, bhida! O Gomāninī, / O bearer of the discus! Hrūṃ phaṭ!

301.25_2

In this village, protect, protect the herd of cows! Make peace, make peace!

301.25_3

Ghaṇṭākarṇa, Mahāsena, declared to be heroic and of great strength,

301.26

the destroyer of pestilence, may that lord of the world protect me! / One should deposit these two verses separately as mantras protecting cattle.

301.26.p1

Thus ends the three hundred and first chapter in the great Agni Purāṇa, entitled 'Various Mantras'.

301.26.p3

Now, the three hundred and second chapter.

301.26.p4

Worship of the Syllables of the Body.

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