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Agnipurana 317

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317.1

The Lord said: / Having extracted Viśvarūpa, situated above Tejas, / one should deposit Narasiṃha beneath it, and Kṛtānta below that.

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Placing the Praṇava below that, and again Ūhaka beneath that, / Aṃśumān resting on Viśvamūrti, Kaṇṭhoṣṭha, Praṇava, and so on.

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It ends with namaḥ, consists of four syllables, and Viśvarūpa is the cause; / multiplied by the solar measure, on the Brahman [mantra], the ancillary limbs here are as before.

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One should first extract the praṇava, utter 'prasphura' twice, / then 'ghoraghoratara', and thereupon meditate on the form there.

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Having uttered the word 'caṭa' twice, one should then utter 'pravara'; / 'daha' is to be uttered twice, and 'vama' twice.

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Having pronounced 'ghātaya' twice, one should utter [the mantra] ending in 'hūṃ phaṭ'. / The weapon is the Aghora-weapon, and the eye [is Aghora]; now the Gāyatrī is declared: / 'We know that Maheśa, we meditate upon Mahādeva;

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may Śiva impel us therein'—the Gāyatrī accomplishes everything.

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On an expedition, for victory, and so forth, one should worship the retinue beforehand for prosperity. / In the fourth part of the field previously divided all around into twelve [squares],

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one should draw a three-petalled lotus covering four squares in the triangle.

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1 kha reads 'sarvataḥ'

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2 kha reads 'dvidhākṛtam'
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At its back is an alley of one square; having that share is a three-petalled [lotus] joined with horses;

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there is a base-border of three-petalled [divisions] with lotuses by the sons of Vasudeva; / above that an altar should be placed measuring merely one unit.

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The doorway is of lotus measure; from the compartment the side-doorway is colorless; / the maṇḍala constructed with doors and side-doors destroys obstacles.

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The lotus in the center is reddish; outside it are outer lotuses; / the pathway should be made white, and the doors as one wishes.

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The pericarp should be yellow, and likewise the filaments; / this is the maṇḍala named Vighnamarda, in the center of which one should worship Gaṇapati.

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The first name should have the varāka, combined with Śakra from the deity; / the head is struck with Tatpuruṣa, beginning with oṃ and ending with namaḥ:

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Gajākhya, Gajaśīrṣa, Gāṅgeya, Gaṇanāyaka, / Trirāvarta, and Gaganagaṅgāpati in the eastern row;

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Vicitrāṃśa, Mahākāya, Lamboṣṭha, Lambakarṇaka, / Lambodara, Mahābhāga, Vikṛta, Pārvatīpriya,

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Bhayāvaha, Bhadra, Bhagaṇa, and Bhayasūdana— / these twelve in the row of ten; and Devatrāsa in the west;

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Mahānāda, Bhāsvara, Vighnarāja, Gaṇādhipa, / Udbhaṭa, Svānabha, Caṇḍa, Mahāśuṇḍa, Bhīmaka,

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Manmatha, Madhusūdana, Sundara, Bhāvapuṣṭaka; / in the north, Brahmeśvara, Brāhma, Manovṛtti, Saṃlaya,

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Laya, Dūtyapriya, Laulya, Vikarṇa, and likewise Vatsala, / Kṛtānta, and Kāładaṇḍa; and one should worship the water jar as before.

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317.20

One should recite the mantra ten thousand times and perform fire oblation with a tenth part of it; / but for the remaining [deities], one should make the fire oblation with ten oblations from the recitation.

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Having offered the full final oblation, one should perform the consecration by aspersion; everything succeeds. / A man should perform the worship of the guru with land, cows, horses, elephants, garments, and so on.

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Thus ends the three hundred and seventeenth chapter, named the Worship of Gaṇas, in the great Agnipurāṇa.

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Now the three hundred and eighteenth chapter.

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Worship of Vāgīśvarī.

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