Agnipurana 32

English (machine translation) 32

Language: English

32.8 — 2 parts
32.12 — 3 parts

32.1

Agni said: / In the liberating and other initiations, a wise man should perform forty-eight / saṃskāras. Listen to those by which one becomes a god.

32.2

One should perform the conception rite in the womb, then the puṃsavana rite, / the parting of the hair, the birth rite, and the naming rite,

32.3

first feeding of food, then tonsure, and the four observances of studentship: / Vaiṣṇavī, Pārthī, Bhautikī, and Śrotrikī,

32.4

the gift of a cow, and the end of birth-impurity; and these are the seven cooked sacrifices: / the aṣṭakā, the pārvaṇaśrāddha, the śrāvaṇī, the āgrayaṇī,

32.5

the caitrī, and the āśvayujī. And listen to those seven oblation sacrifices: / the establishment of the sacred fire, the agnihotra, the new moon sacrifice, the full moon sacrifice,

32.6

the cāturmāsya, the animal sacrifice, and then another, the sautrāmaṇī. / Hear the seven forms of the soma sacrifice: the agniṣṭoma, the best of sacrifices,

32.7

the atyagniṣṭoma, the ukthya, the ṣoḍaśin, the vājapeya, / the atirātra, and the āptoryāma. These are the savas, lords of thousands:

32.8

the hiraṇyāṅghri, the hiraṇyākṣa, and therefore the hiraṇyamitra,

32.8.p2

1. "sapta ca" is the reading in the two manuscripts marked ga and kha. / [Page 92]

32.8_2

the hiraṇyapāṇi, the hemākṣa, the hemāṅga, the hemasūtraka,

32.9

the hiraṇyāsya, the hiraṇyāṅga, the hemajihva, and the hiraṇyavat; / indeed, the horse sacrifice is the lord of all. Now hear those eight virtues:

32.10

compassion toward all beings, patience, uprightness, / purity, freedom from anxiety, and another virtue is auspiciousness,

32.11

absence of stinginess, and desirelessness. One should make one hundred oblations with the root mantra. / These initiations of Sūrya, Śakti, Viṣṇu, and Śiva are considered equal.

Consecrated by these saṃskāras, one obtains worldly enjoyment and liberation; / freed from all disease, a man lives like a god; / through recitation, fire oblation, worship, and meditation on the deity, he attains his desires.

32.12.p1

Thus in the primal Mahāpurāṇa of Agni, the thirty-second chapter, entitled "Account of the Forty-Eight Saṃskāras".

32.12.p3

Now the thirty-third chapter:

32.12.p4

Rule for the Investiture with the Sacred Thread

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Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit

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