Pramāṇa · Search · About · API

Agnipurana 305

English (machine translation) 305

Language
English

Contents

305.1

Agni said: / Immobilization, sowing hatred, eradication, ruin, delusion, killing, / and disease—these are remembered as the cruel [sorceries]; liberation from them will be spoken, listen!

305.1.p1

Oṃ, obeisance to the Blessed Lord, the Frenzied Rudra! Wander, wander! Make wander, make wander! Terrify such-and-such person! / Agitate, agitate with your terrible form! Hūṃ phaṭ ṭhaḥ ṭhaḥ!

305.2

Recited at night in a cremation ground, one should make three hundred thousand oblations with honey / in the fire of a funeral pyre with firewood of thorn-apple; the enemy is perpetually driven mad.

305.3

A black doll [fashioned] with yellow ochre, pierced with golden needles / in its neck or in its heart after reciting [the mantra], the enemy dies.

305.4

The hair of a donkey, ashes from a funeral pyre, *brahmadaṇḍī*, and cowhage; / one should throw that recited-over powder in the house or on the head, causing ruin.

305.5

Bhṛgu and sky, accompanied by blazing fire, Bhṛgu, fire, and armor, *phaṭ*.

305.5.p1

Thus: *hūṃ phaṭ* to the thousand-spoked [discus]; *ā cakrāya svāhā* to the heart; *vi cakrāya* to the head;

305.5_2

*śikhā cakrāya*, then the armor; *vi cakrāya*, then the eye;

305.5.p2

[Page 125]

305.6

*sañcakrāya* is prescribed for the weapon; *jvālācakrāya* as before. / The bow Śārṅga and Sudarśana remove evil spirits and are the means to all attainments.

305.7

One should ritually deposit its syllables on the crown of the head, eyes, mouth, heart, private parts, and feet. / [One should visualize the deity] seated on a lotus upon a discus, shining like fire, having fangs, and four-armed,

305.8

holding conch, discus, mace, lotus, dart, and elephant goad in hand, / bearing a bow, with tawny hair and eyes, whose spokes pervade the three worlds.

305.9

Pierced by that fire in the navel, diseases and seizing spirits are destroyed. / The discus is yellow, the maces are red, the vowels [are in] the dark intermediate space;

305.10

the rim is white, and the outer line is earth-colored, black. / In the middle and on the spokes one should write the syllables; in this way one should draw the two wheels.

305.11

First having brought water in a pot and placed it within sight, / and having invoked Sudarśana there, one should make fire oblations sequentially in the southern wheel:

305.12

ghee, firewood of *apāmārga*, unhusked barley grains, sesamum and mustard seeds, / milk-rice, bovine products, and ghee, to the count of eight thousand.

305.13

One knowing the rite should cast the remainder of the oblation into the pot for each substance. / One should place a rice-ball made of a measure of a *prastha* into that pot.

305.14

One should ritually deposit everything, Viṣṇu and the rest, right there; right there to the south,

305.14.p1

"Obeisance to the attendants of Viṣṇu who pacify all things; may they accept this; obeisance for peace."

305.14_2

With this mantra one should give a food-offering with the water left over from the fire oblation.

305.15

Having placed a palāśa [leaf] of a milk-exuding tree in a vessel prepared on a board / filled with bovine products, one should have fire oblations made in the cardinal directions by Brahmins.

305.16

Accompanied by a sacrificial fee, this pair of fire oblations destroys spirits and other [harmful beings].

305.16.p1

[Footnote mark]

305.16.p2

1. Variant reading: *varṇadvayam* in manuscript *kha*.
[Page 126]

305.16_2

Sorcery is eradicated by leafless twigs written [with mantras] smeared with bovine products.

305.17

[Fire oblations] with dūrvā grass are for long life; with lotuses, for fortune; with *udumbara* wood, for sons; / with ghee in a cowshed, for success with cattle; with all milk-trees, for wisdom.

305.17.p1

Om kṣauṃ. Obeisance to the Blessed Lord, to Nārasiṃha, who wears a garland of flames, / who has blazing fangs, who has eyes of fire, who slays all demons, / who destroys all evil spirits, who cures all fevers; burn, burn; cook, cook; protect, protect; *hūṃ phaṭ*.

305.18

This mantra of Nārasiṃha averts all troubles. / Through recitation and the like it removes sorcery, seizing spirits, pestilence, poisons, and ailments. / With powder and the bile of a frog, it produces paralysis of water and fire.

305.18.p1

Thus ends the three hundred and fifth chapter, titled "Mantras of Nārasiṃha and Others," in the great Agni Purāṇa.

305.18.p3

Now the three hundred and sixth chapter.

305.18.p4

[The Trailokyamohana Mantras]

Other recensions (1)

Linked texts (1)