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Agnipurana 321

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The Lord said: / I shall declare the pacification recitation and other rites with the Pāśupata weapon, beginning from the front. / Destruction of earlier [afflictions comes] from the feet; and [the mantra] ending in "phaṭ" dispels misfortunes and the like:

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Oṃ, homage to the Blessed One, the Great Pāśupata, of unequalled strength, valour, and prowess, having fifteen eyes, possessing manifold forms, brandishing various weapons, red over all his limbs, resembling a mass of split collyrium, fond of cremation grounds and vetālas, delighting in cutting down all obstacles, bestower of all siddhis, compassionate to devotees, having innumerable faces, arms, and legs, accomplished therein, terrifying vetālas, causing agitation to śākinīs, repressing disease, breaker of sins, having the sun, moon, and fire as eyes, whose armour is Viṣṇu, sword and thunderbolt in hand, having the staff of Yama, the noose of Varuṇa, the trident of Rudra, a blazing tongue, putter to flight of all diseases, curber of planetary afflictions, destroyer of wicked serpents!

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Oṃ, to the dark and tawny one, phaṭ! To the hūṃkāra weapon, phaṭ!

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To the thunderbolt-handed one, phaṭ! To the spear, phaṭ! To the staff, phaṭ! To Yama, phaṭ!

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To the sword, phaṭ! To the Varuṇa [weapon], phaṭ! To the noose, phaṭ! To the banner, phaṭ! To the goad, phaṭ! To the club, phaṭ! To Kubera, phaṭ! To the trident, phaṭ!

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To the mallet, phaṭ! To the discus, phaṭ! To the lotus, phaṭ! To the serpent weapon, phaṭ!

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To Īśāna, phaṭ! To the shield weapon, phaṭ! To the severed-head weapon, phaṭ!

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To the skeleton weapon, phaṭ! To the peacock-tail weapon, phaṭ! To the knife weapon, phaṭ!

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To the Brahmā weapon, phaṭ! To the spear weapon, phaṭ! To the host weapon, phaṭ!

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To the feather-bundle weapon, phaṭ! To the Gandharva weapon, phaṭ! To the mūrvā weapon, phaṭ!

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To the southern weapon, phaṭ! To the left weapon, phaṭ! To the western weapon, phaṭ!

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To the mantra weapon, phaṭ! To the śākinī weapon,

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phaṭ! To the yoginī weapon, phaṭ! To the staff weapon, phaṭ! To the common staff weapon, phaṭ! To the varied weapon, phaṭ! To Śiva's weapon, phaṭ! To Īśāna's weapon, phaṭ! To Puruṣa's weapon, phaṭ! To Aghora's weapon, phaṭ! To Sadyojāta's weapon, phaṭ! To the heart weapon, phaṭ! To the great weapon, phaṭ! To Garuḍa's weapon, phaṭ! To the Rākṣasa weapon, phaṭ! To the Dānava weapon, phaṭ! To kṣauṃ Narasiṃha's weapon, phaṭ! To Tvaṣṭṛ's weapon, phaṭ! To all weapons, phaṭ! Naḥ phaṭ! Vaḥ phaṭ! Paḥ phaṭ! Phaḥ phaṭ! Maḥ phaṭ! Śrī phaṭ! Pheḥ phaṭ! Bhūḥ phaṭ! Bhuvaḥ phaṭ! Svaḥ phaṭ! Janaḥ phaṭ! Tapaḥ phaṭ! To all worlds, phaṭ! To all underworlds, phaṭ! To all tattvas, phaṭ! To all vital breaths, phaṭ! To all channels, phaṭ! To all causes, phaṭ! To all gods, phaṭ! Hrīṃ phaṭ! Śrīṃ phaṭ! Hūṃ phaṭ! Struṃ phaṭ! Svāṃ phaṭ! Lāṃ phaṭ! To detachment, phaṭ! To the māyā weapon, phaṭ! To the Kāma weapon, phaṭ! To the Kṣetrapāla weapon, phaṭ! To the hūṃkāra weapon, phaṭ! To the sun weapon, phaṭ! To the moon weapon, phaṭ! To the Lord of Obstacles weapon, phaṭ! Khroṃ khrauṃ phaṭ! Hrauṃ hroṃ phaṭ! Whirled around, whirled around, phaṭ! Cover, cover, phaṭ! Uproot, uproot, phaṭ! Terrify, terrify, phaṭ! Revive, revive, phaṭ! Put to flight, put to flight, phaṭ! Destroy, destroy all evil, phaṭ!

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By reciting it just once, one will destroy all obstacles; / and by a hundred recitations, portents [are pacified], and victory in battle and the like will arise.

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And from a fire oblation of clarified butter and bdellium, one accomplishes even the unachievable; / and from reading the Pāśupata weapon, universal pacification will occur.

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Thus in the glorious Agni Purāṇa, the three hundred twenty-first chapter, called 'The Pacification Rite of the Pāśupata [Weapon]'.

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[Footnote]

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[Footnote 1: Or "asādhyamapi" in manuscript kha.]

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Now the three hundred twenty-second chapter.

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The Six Limbs of the Aghorāstra.

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