Agnipurana 308
English (machine translation) 308
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308.1
Agni said: / I shall now fully declare the limb-mantras of Tvaritā, which bestow worldly enjoyment and liberation:
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"Oṃ, homage to the Support Śakti! Oṃ hrīṃ puru puru, homage to the Great Lion!
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Homage! Oṃ, homage to the lotus! Oṃ hrīṃ hrūṃ khecachekṣaḥ!
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Strīṃ oṃ hrūṃ kṣaiṃ hrūṃ phaṭ, homage to Tvaritā! Khe ca, homage to the heart! Cache, homage to the head! Chekṣaḥ, homage to the topknot! Kṣastrī, homage to the armor! Strīṃ hrūṃ, homage to the eyes! Hrūṃ khe, phaṭ, homage to the weapon! Oṃ, we know the Tvaritā knowledge; we meditate on the swift knowledge; may the goddess impel us thereto! Homage to Śrīpraṇītā!
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Homage to Hrūṅkārā! Oṃ kheca, homage to the heart!
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Homage to Khecarī! Oṃ, homage to Caṇḍā! Homage to Chedanī! Homage to Kṣepaṇī! Striyai, homage to Hrūṅkārī! To Kṣemaṅkarī, to Jayā, to Kiṅkara, protect! Oṃ, by the command of Tvaritā, become steadfast, vaṣaṭ!"
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Totalā, Tvaritā, Tūrṇā—thus has this mantra been proclaimed.
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Upon the head, between the brows, the crown of the head, the throat, the heart, the navel, and the privities, / on both thighs, the knees, the two shanks, and both feet in order:
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having performed the ritual deposition of the limbs and the mantra, one should perform the pervasive ritual deposition over the whole [body]. / She is Pārvatī, a Śabarī tribal woman and the supreme sovereign, her hands granting boons and protection,
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wearing bracelets of peacock [feathers], her diadem of peacock feathers, her garments of tender shoots, / seated upon a lion throne, accompanied by a parasol of peacock feathers,
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three-eyed, dark-complexioned goddess, adorned with a garland of wild flowers,
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wearing a brahmin serpent as her ear ornament, decorated with armlets [of serpents],
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with a vaiśya serpent as her girdle, and an outcast serpent made into her anklets. / Having become of such a form, one should recite her mantra one hundred thousand times.
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The Lord assumed the form of a Kirāta mountain hunter of old, and Gaurī took a similar form. / One should recite [her mantra], meditate on her, and worship her for all supernatural powers, as the remover of poison and [other ills].
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She should be worshipped upon an eight-[petalled] lion throne, on the petals starting from the east in order. / The limb-gāyatrī mantras, Praṇītā, Hūṅkārā, and the rest, are worshipped on the tips of the petals,
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and Phaṭkārī before the goddess. One should worship these with the seed-syllable Śrī. / They have the colors of the weapons of the guardians of the quarters, while Phaṭkārī holds a bow.
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Jayā and Vijayā, holding golden staffs, are to be worshipped at the entrance. / Outside them are Kiṅkarā, Varvarī, Muṇḍī, and Laguḍī.
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Having thus worshipped, one achieves success through the substances; one should offer fire oblations in a yoni-shaped fire-pit. / Acquisition of gold is gained through arjuna flowers, and nourishment and prosperity through grains of wheat.
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Through barley, grains, and sesame, one attains all perfections and the destruction of calamities; / through akṣa fruits comes madness of the enemy, and death through śālmali flowers.
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Through jambu fruits comes the acquisition of wealth and grain, and satisfaction through blue lotuses; / through red lotuses comes great nourishment, and through kunda flowers comes great fortune.
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Through mallikā jasmines comes the agitation of a city, and through white water-lilies one becomes beloved of the people; / through aśoka blossoms one obtains a son, and through pāṭalā flowers an auspicious woman.
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Through mango blossoms comes long life, through sesame prosperity, through bilva fruits fortune, through campaka flowers wealth; / what is desired is obtained through madhuka flowers, and through bilvas one attains omniscience.
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From three hundred thousand recitations comes the attainment of everything, through fire oblations, meditation, and likewise through worship. / Having worshipped in the maṇḍala with the Gāyatrī, one should offer twenty-five oblations.
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One should offer three hundred [oblations] from the root-mantra; one who is initiated should perform it with tender shoots. / Having first drunk the five products of the cow, one should always consume the sacred food oblation.
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Thus ends the three hundred and eighth chapter in the great Agni Purāṇa, named 'The Worship of Tvaritā'.
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Now, the three hundred and ninth chapter.
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The Mantras of Tvaritā and Others.
Other recensions (1)
- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
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- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit