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Agnipurana 307

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307.1

Agni said: / The chest with fire, the southern eye, Daṇḍīḥ, Śrīḥ, the grantor of all success: / “Homage to Mahāśrī, possessing great attainments, shining like great lightning!

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Homage to Śrī, O Goddess Vijayā! O Gaurī, possessing great strength, bind, bind, homage! Hūṃ, / O you of great body, lotus in hand, hūṃ phaṭ homage to Śrī! To Śrī phaṭ, to Śrī / homage! To Śrī phaṭ, śrīṃ homage! To Śrī, O bestower of prosperity, homage, / svāhā svāhā, śrī phaṭ!”

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Her nine limbs have been stated; one should resort to one among them. / Having recited three hundred thousand or one hundred thousand times with rosaries of lotus seeds, one becomes a bestower of prosperity.

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Having worshipped Śrī in a temple of Śrī or in a temple of Viṣṇu, one obtains wealth. / One should offer a hundred thousand oblations of grains of rice smeared with ghee into a fire of khadira wood.

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A king becomes subjugated, prosperity increases, and Śrī increases more and more. / By aspersion with mustard water, all planetary afflictions are destroyed.

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Lakṣmī and increase of wealth arise from a hundred thousand oblations with bilva. / Then one should contemplate in the heart the four-doored abode of Indra.

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One should meditate on Balākā at the door as before, short, dark, holding a white lotus, / with her two arms raised, sporting.

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At the southern door one should contemplate [the deity] holding a red lotus with a raised hand, / having a white body, wearing a garland of forest flowers.

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At the western door one should meditate on Vibhīṣikā by name, the messenger of Śrī, / green, lifting up a white lotus with her two arms.

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[One should meditate on] Śāṅkarī at the northern door; in the middle of it is an eight-petaled lotus: / Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna, and Aniruddha.

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They are to be meditated upon on the lotus petals, holding a conch, discus, and mace, / resembling collyrium, milk, saffron, and gold, wearing handsome garments.

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On the petals beginning with the southeast: Guggulu, Kuruṇṭaka, / Damaka, Salila, and Hastinī, radiant like silver.

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These hold golden pots; and on the pericarp one should remember Śrī: / four-armed, golden-hued, having two upper arms with lotuses,

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with her right hand bestowing fearlessness and her left hand granting boons, / wearing white fragrant garments, holding a single silver garland and weapons.

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Having meditated on her along with her retinue and worshipped her, one obtains everything. / One should not place a droṇa leaf, a lotus flower, or a bilva leaf on one's head.

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Salt and myrobalan are to be avoided on the fifth and seventh lunar days, respectively. / Subsisting on milk-rice, one should recite the hymn of Śrī and perform aspersion with it.

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Having meditated on Śrī upon one's head, one should worship her from invocation through dismissal. / With bilva, ghee, lotuses, and milk-rice, there is an individual rite for [attaining] Śrī.

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Poison, the beloved of Mahiṣa, fire, Rudra, light, a pair of cranes—

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“Oṃ hrīṃ, O great crusher of Mahiṣa, ṭha ṭha!” is the root mantra. / “Homage to the slayer of Mahiṣa! Whirl, whirl the enemy Mahiṣa, hūṃ phaṭ / ṭha ṭha! Make Mahiṣa neigh, neigh, hūṃ! Slay, slay Mahiṣa, O Goddess, hūṃ / O slayer of Mahiṣa, phaṭ!” / This is declared to be the Durgā-hṛdaya along with its limbs, which accomplishes all ends.

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One should worship that Goddess as prescribed, and the pedestal situated in the midst of the limbs.

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“Oṃ hrīṃ, O Durgā, O protectress, svāhā”; and “Homage to Durgā, / homage to the fair-complexioned one, / to Āryā, to the golden-hued one, to Kṛttikā, to the grantor of fearlessness, to the maiden, / to the shapely one.”

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One should worship these icons situated on the petals in order, with the initial vowels.

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To the discus, to the conch, to the mace, to the sword, to the bow, to the arrow. / With [rites on] the eighth [lunar day] and others, one should thus worship this Durgā ending with the world-protectors. / The Durgā ritual produces a full lifespan, prosperity, devotion of the master, victory, and the like.

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Fire oblation of sesame seeds with the Īśāna mantra in meditation produces subjugation; / with lotuses, victory; with dūrvā grass, pacification; with palāśa blossoms, desire;

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with crow feathers, there will be nourishment, death, enmity, and the like. / This mantra removes all danger and misfortune arising from Brahmins and petty spirits.

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“Oṃ, O Durgā, Durgā, O protectress, svāhā!”

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This is declared to be the protective [goddess], accompanied by the limbs of Jayadurgā. / Having meditated on the dark, three-eyed Goddess, and on oneself as four-armed,

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Bearing a conch, discus, lotus, trident, and other weapons, of fierce form, / one should invoke her in battle and similar occasions, and worship her for victory by means of swords and the like.

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Thus ends the three hundred and seventh chapter, entitled "Worship of Trailokyamohanī, Lakṣmī, and Others," in the Agni Mahāpurāṇa.

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Now, the three hundred and eighth chapter.

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Worship of Tvaritā.

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