Agnipurana 319

English (machine translation) 319

Language: English

319.2 — 2 parts
319.14 — 1 part
319.25 — 2 parts
319.36 — 2 parts
319.47 — 2 parts
319.48 — 3 parts

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Maṇḍalas. / Īśvara said: / I shall declare eight Sarvatobhadra maṇḍalas, O Guha. / The wise man should establish the east by means of a gnomon at a desired equinox,

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or through the space between Citrā and Svātī, or again by an observed cord; / having stretched a cord extending east to west, he should mark it from the center.

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He should mark two endpoints north and south from its center; / two [points] are to be made in the center; he should stretch [the cord] north and south.

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By the measure of half of the field of a hundred, he should indicate the intersection of the corners; / thus by stretching the four cords a square

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is produced; therein the auspicious [maṇḍala] that causes good fortune should be made. / In the field divided by eight into squares of one and two, there is a pathway of one share;

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a door of two squares, half the size of the lotus, with cheeks; / he should delineate there a variegated corner-band of two squares.

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The lotus is white, the pericarp is yellow, and the filament is multicolored; / a red pathway is to be designed there, and the door has the form of a world-guardian.

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Hear of the lotus in the regular rite having red corners, and the occasional [lotus]: / the lotus is twofold, disconnected and connected, granting worldly enjoyment and liberation.

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The disconnected is for seekers of liberation; the connected is distinctly threefold: / young, mature, and aged by name, granting the achievement of fruits.

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In the field of the lotus, one should cast cords in the cardinal and intermediate directions; / five concentric circles equal to the lotus-field [are drawn].

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In the first there is the pericarp accompanied by nine petals; / in the second are twenty-four filaments; then in the third,

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The petal junction resembles an elephant's frontal lobe; the petal tip is within it. / In the fifth, which is shaped like the sky, the lotus is regarded as connected.

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If the petal tips are disconnected, one should divide the breadth into ten parts. / Discarding two parts, one should trace the petal with eight parts.

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One should draw the petal from its base with the cord of the junction's width

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clockwise and counter-clockwise in succession; thus it becomes expanded.

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Or else, one should sweep from the center of the junction like a crescent moon, / or [use] the cord from the tips of the two junctions; thus it becomes a young lotus.

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One should turn it backwards with the measure of half the junction cord. / With sharp tips and well-arranged winds, the lotus grants worldly enjoyment and liberation.

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For the increase of worldly enjoyment and in subjugation and the like, the young lotus is equal [in effect]. / Having nine centers and nine cubits, divided into parts made of mantras,

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a lotus is in the center with a bordering band, measured by the door of the lotus. / When the neck and sub-neck are left open, outside it an aisle is prescribed.

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Endowed with five parts, it has ten parts all around. / In the cardinal and intermediate directions are eight lotuses; the door-lotus is with an aisle.

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Outside that is an aisle of five squares where it is adorned; / like the lotus, the neck of the door is of one square, and the lip-neck is [also] of one square.

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The cheek is to be made of one square, and clearly three doors in the cardinal directions. / The corner-fastening is of three bands; having two bands, it resembles a vajra.

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The central lotus is white, yellow, red, and blue, / yellow, white, smoky, and red and yellow, granting liberation.

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In the eight lotuses beginning in the east, one should recite [mantras of] Śiva, Viṣṇu, and others, / having worshipped Indra and the others in the small lotuses from the center of the temple.

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In the outer aisle are the weapons; one who worships Viṣṇu and others shares the horse sacrifice. / At the investiture with sacred thread and the like, one should draw the great maṇḍala.

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One should formerly divide the field of eight cubits into twenty-six [divisions].

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1. kha and cha read 'measured by five parts' (pañcabhāgamitā). / [Page 164]

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The lotus is of two squares in the center; then there is an aisle of one square.

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Then in the cardinal and intermediate directions one should draw eight blue lotuses. / According to the measure of the central lotus, these are thirty lotuses,

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devoid of petal junctions, being blue water-lilies. / At their back is an aisle of one square, and svastikas above them.

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And eight [svastikas] of two squares each, made with four parts; / one should draw the svastikas there; the aisle outside is as before.

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The doors are like the lotus, but endowed with sub-necks. / The corner is red, the aisle yellow, and the lotus blue in the maṇḍala.

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With variegated svastikas and the like, it grants all desires, O Guha. / The five-lotus [maṇḍala] should be five cubits, divided into ten all around.

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The lotus is of two squares, the aisle and band; in the cardinal directions is a group of four lotuses. / At the back is an aisle of one square, then [doors] of two squares

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provided with neck and sub-neck; the doors and the lotus are in the center. / In this five-lotus maṇḍala, the eastern one is white and yellow;

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the southern lotus has the luster of cat's-eye; the western lotus has the luster of kunda jasmine; / the northern lotus has the luster of a conch shell; all the rest is variegated.

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I shall speak of the ten-cubit maṇḍala which grants all desires: / it is square, divided into sixteen; the door should be of two squares.

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The lotus in the center is as before. Now I declare the destruction of obstacles: / having made a square of four cubits, and a circle of two cubits,

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the aisle is of one cubit, surrounded by many svastikas.

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1. kha and ña read 'similarly endowed with sub-necks' (tadvadupakaṇṭhayutāni). / [Page 165]

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The doors are of one cubit; in the intermediate directions is a circle with a lotus.

There are five white lotuses; the Partless Lord is to be worshipped in the center. / One should worship the heart and other [limbs] beginning in the east, and the weapons in the intermediate directions.

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The five Brahmās are as before. Next I declare the support of the intellect: / divided into a hundred parts or fifteen parts, a lotus and eight liṅgas in the cardinal direction.

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The neck should be endowed with a girdle division, consisting of two squares. / Relying on his intellect, the preceptor should design the creepers and the like.

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Four, six, five, eight, and so forth, beginning with the sky, eyes, sky, and so forth, is the maṇḍala; / all are situated in sky, eyes, moon, and sun, and from the description of sky, eyes, and moon:

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there are indeed one thousand four hundred and forty / maṇḍalas of Hari, Śambhu, Devī, and Sūrya.

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When divided into seventeen, hear the origin of creepers and liṅgas: / in the cardinal directions, five, three, and one, and three and five one should erase.

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In the two squares going upward is the liṅga temple in the side chambers; / in the center is a lotus of two squares, and then a single lotus.

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On the flanks of the liṅga in the auspicious [division], because of the erasure of the door of two squares, / erasing the six side decorations, the remaining creepers are thus Hari's.

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Erasing two squares above, eight auspicious [divisions] of Hari are remembered. / Joined with the measure of rays, and from erasing four, it is decorative.

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The lotus is of twenty-five [squares]; then the pedestal or non-pedestal. / Keeping two and two, there are likewise eight sub-decorations.

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The auspicious design indicative of Devī and others is large in the center, and the other is small.

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[Note]

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1. ña reads 'lopayed'; ṭa reads 'lopayed'. / [Page 166]

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In the center is a lotus of nine squares; in the corner is a group of four auspicious designs.

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The remainder is of thirteen squares; this is the buddhyādhāra maṇḍala. / With one hundred and sixty petals, the buddhyādhāra is for Hara and others.

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Thus ends the three hundred and nineteenth chapter, entitled 'Maṇḍalas', in the Mahāpurāṇa composed by Agni.

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Now the three hundred and twentieth chapter.

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The rite of pacification using the Aghorāstra and other weapons.

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