Agnipurana 303
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303.1
Agni said: / Meṣa, saṃjñā, viṣa, sādya, asti, the long water [vowel], and rasa: / this five-syllable mantra bestows auspiciousness and is identical with Śiva.
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Having worshipped with the praṇava and the rest, one attains godhead and other states. / Supreme Brahman consists of knowledge; supreme intelligence is Śiva in the heart.
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The Lord of all, consisting of that power, is divided into the forms of Brahmā and the others. / The letters of the mantra are the five elements, and their mantras are the sense-objects;
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the five winds beginning with prāṇa, and the organs of sense and action. / Everything is the five-syllable Brahman; likewise is that which ends with the eight syllables.
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One should sprinkle the place of initiation with products of the cow as prescribed by the mantra. / Having produced the required state through the Tantra, having worshipped Śiva according to the rules,
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[Footnote]
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[Footnote 1: madhyeṣu toraṇadvahiriti kha.. , ja.. , ña.. ca] [Page 119]
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having performed the scattering of rice and other rites with the root, icon, and limb Vidyās, / and [preparing] the caru and the milk, he should divide it again into three parts.
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Having offered one [part], having made oblations with the other, the teacher with the disciple should consume the remaining one. / Having sipped water and performed the nyāsa of parts, the teacher should give to the disciple
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a tooth-stick consecrated with the heart-mantra, obtained from a milky tree or the like. / Having cleaned the teeth, cast it down, and washed it, he should throw it onto the ground.
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Fallen to the east, north, or west, it is auspicious; otherwise, it is inauspicious. / Then, making that arriving disciple protected by the protective tie and other means,
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the wise [teacher] should sleep with him on an altar covered with darbha grass. / Having seen [the dreams] in deep sleep, the disciple should relate them to the teacher at dawn.
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If [the dreams] are auspicious and grant success, devotion is generated by them; then comes the worship of the maṇḍala. / One should worship the maṇḍala, such as the bhadraka, which grants all attainments.
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Having bathed, sipped water, and smeared the body with clay with mantras, it is prepared. / A person should bathe in a sacred water of Śiva, preceded by the Aghamarṣaṇa rite.
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Having then consecrated his hands, the wise one should proceed to worship and other rites. / He should form the lotus seat with the root-mantra, and with it perform inhalation and retention [of breath].
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Having united the self above, at the end of the tuft of hair twelve finger-widths [up], / having dried up and burned his own body, he should flood it with nectar.
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Having meditated upon a divine body, he should bring the self back into it. / Having thus performed the purification of self, and having deposited [the mantras], he should begin worship.
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Sequentially black, white, dark, red, and yellow are the mountains and other deities; / the syllables of the mantra are the body parts of the staff-bearer, and all forms dwell in them.
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[Footnote]
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[Footnote 1: śiṣyamācāntamiti ña..] [Page 120]
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Having assigned [the syllables to] the limbs everywhere, from the thumb to the little finger, / one should deposit the syllables of the mantra on the feet, the private parts, the heart, the mouth, and the head.
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Having performed the pervasive ritual deposition from the head downwards, one should deposit the root [mantra] and the limbs. / The red, yellow, dark, and white legs of the pedestal, born of their respective times,
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and the members [of the pedestal]—unrighteousness and the rest—he should deposit from his own limbs with mantras in the cardinal directions. / There [on the pedestal he should deposit] the lotus, and in the disc of the sun and the others, the triad of qualities.
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On the petals beginning in the east, the [śaktis] beginning with Vāmā, and a group of nine on the pericarp: / Vāmā, Jyeṣṭhā, and in order Raudrī, Kālī, Kalavikāriṇī,
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and Balavikāriṇī, Balapramathanī, / and Sarvabhūtadamanī, and the ninth, Manonmanī.
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White, red, white, yellow, dark, flame-colored, / black, and reddish-brown—one should visualize those powers in order, in the form of flames.
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Having invoked [Śiva] for the seat of infinite yoga from the lotus of the heart, / [one should visualize] Śiva, radiant as crystal, four-armed, holding a fruit and a trident,
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granting fearlessness and boons, five-faced, and three-eyed. / On the petals, the five icons beginning with Tatpuruṣa are to be placed.
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In the east is Tatpuruṣa, white; Aghora is eight-armed and dark; / Sadyojāta in the west is four-armed, four-faced, and yellow.
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Vāmadeva is sportive with women, four-faced, four-armed, and reddish; / in the north is the five-faced [form], and in the northeast is Īśāna, all-bestowing and white.
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One should worship the desired limbs according to rule, and Ananta and Sūkṣma; / in the cardinal directions beginning with the east, one should worship Siddheśvara and Ekanetra,
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Ekarudra, Trinetra, Śrīkaṇṭha, and Śikhaṇḍin;
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in the intermediate directions beginning with the northeast are these Lords of Knowledge, seated on lotuses.
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White, yellow, white, red, smoke-colored, red, reddish-brown, and white; / their arms bear a trident, a thunderbolt, and a bow and arrow, and they are four-faced.
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One should worship Umā, Caṇḍeśa and Nandīśa, Mahākāla, Gaṇeśa, / the Bull, Bhṛṅgiriṭi, and Skanda, beginning in the north.
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One should worship the thunderbolt, the spear and the staff, the sword, the noose, the banner, the mace, / the trident, the discus, and the lotus, beginning in the east, having worshipped the god.
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Then one should have the pupil, who has undergone preliminary consecration, drink the five products of the cow. / Having rinsed his mouth and sprinkled him [with water] with the eye [mantras], one should blindfold his eyes with the eye [mantra].
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He should lead the pupil through the door in the south of the pavilion; / seated there on kuśa grass with a seat and the like, the guru should purify him.
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Having dissolved the primary cosmic principles in order into the supreme reality, / the teacher should generate the pupil again by the process of creation.
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Then, having performed the ritual deposition upon the pupil, he should lead him in a clockwise circumambulation; / having brought him to the western door, he should have him throw a handful of flowers.
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Upon whatever [deity] the flowers fall, he should assign him that name as the primary one. / In the fire-pit dug beside the sacrificial ground, possessing a proper navel and girdles,
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having generated the Śiva-fire and sacrificed, he should have him worship again with the pupil. / Having brought the pupil, who resembles oneself, through meditation into gradual dissolution,
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and having generated him again, he should place consecrated darbha grass in his hand. / He should make oblations of the cosmic principles beginning with earth using the heart and other [mantras].
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[Footnote]
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1 [Variant] "kamalānanāḥ" according to manuscript ña.
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2 [Variant] "sandhādimekhale" according to manuscript kha. / [Page 122]
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Having offered a hundred oblations for each one, he should offer fire oblations with the root [mantra] of ether. / Having made the fire oblations, he should make the full oblation; he should offer eight fire oblations with the weapon [mantra].
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An expiation for the sake of complete purity, and then he should finish the remainder. / Having worshipped the jar that has been consecrated with mantras, he should consecrate the youth on the pedestal with aspersion.
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Having imparted the rule of conduct to the pupil, he should worship his guru with gold and other gifts. / The initiation of the five-syllable mantra has been spoken; in this very manner is that of Viṣṇu and the other deities.
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Thus ends the three hundred and third chapter, entitled “The Worship Mantras of the Five-Syllable [Formula] and Others,” in the great Agni Purāṇa.
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Now begins the three hundred and fourth chapter.
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The Fifty-Five Names of Viṣṇu.
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- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
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