Agnipurana 324

English (machine translation) 324

Language: English

324.3 — 2 parts
324.14 — 2 parts
324.23 — 5 parts

324.1

The Lord said: / A bracelet of rudrākṣa beads, odd or even, firm, should be worn; / one should wear a one-, three-, or five-faced bead as available.

324.2

Two-, four-, and six-faced beads are recommended, unblemished and with sharp thorns; / one should wear a four-faced one on the right arm and at the topknot and so forth.

324.3

A non-celibate becomes a celibate, an unbathed person becomes a cleansed bather; / or a golden ring should be worn, having worshipped [it] with the Śiva-mantra.

324.4

The gocaras are Śiva, Śikhā, Jyotis, and Sāvitra; / and a gocara is to be known as a lineage, by which an initiate is characterized.

324.5

Prājāpatya, Mahīpāla, Kapota, and Granthika are under Śiva; / Kuṭilas, Vetālas, Padmas, and Haṃsas are in the Śikhā lineage;

324.6

Dhṛtarāṣṭras, cranes, crows, and cowherds are in the one named Jyotis; / Kuṭikas, Sāṭharas, Guṭikas, and staff-bearers are the others

324.7

in the gocara of Sāvitrī; thus each is of four kinds. / I shall explain the divisions such as siddha, by which a mantra gives complete success.

324.8

The mātṛkā letters are to be drawn on the ground, free of conjuncts and neuter [vowels]; / having separated the syllables of the mantra, one should set the nasal mark aside.

324.9

One should make an analysis of the name of the practitioner; / one should join the syllables of the practitioner's [name] at the beginning and the end of the mantra.

324.10

One should count in order from the name: siddha, sādhya, susiddha, and ari; / at the beginning and at the end of the mantra, it bestows success by a hundredth portion.

324.11

A mantra that is siddha at the beginning and siddha at the end succeeds in that very moment; / one with susiddha at the beginning and susiddha at the end should be considered like siddha.

324.12

One must avoid an enemy from afar, both at the beginning and at the end; / siddha and susiddha have the same result, and similarly ari and sādhya.

324.13

If a siddha is stationed at the beginning of the mantra and likewise at its end, / thousands of enemies in the middle indeed cause no harm.

324.14

In a well-known mantra, the division is determined by māyā, prasāda, and praṇava; / Brahmā's division is the lore of Brahmā; Viṣṇu's portion is remembered as Vaiṣṇava.

324.14.p2

1. "viṣṇvaṃśa" in manuscript ña.. / :p 178

324.15

Rudra's portion makes one a hero; Indra's portion makes one dear to the lord; / the Nāga-portion has rigid eyes like a serpent; the Yakṣa-portion is fond of ornaments;

324.16

the Gandharva-portion is exceedingly fond of singing; the fierce portion belongs to the Rākṣasas; / the Daitya-portion is inclined to battle; the Vidyādhara-portion is proud;

324.17

the Piśāca-portion is overcome by impurity; having examined [this], one should impart the mantra. / A mantra ending in phaṭ may consist of one [syllable]; a vidyā extends up to fifty [syllables].

324.18

A bālā-mantra ends at twenty syllables; a rudra-mantra, having weapons, at twenty-two; / the mantras that are beyond that, up to three hundred, are mature.

324.19

From the letter "a" to the letter "ha" are in succession the two fortnights, light and dark; / and without the nasal mark and visarga, there are ten vowels.

Short [vowels] are white, long ones are dark; the lunar days begin with pratipad; / when [the breath is] ascending, rites of pacification and the like [should be done]; when circulating, rites of subjugation and the like;

324.21

when rotated, junctions, enmity, eradication, and immobilization are the eightfold rites; / during the left flow, rites of pacification and the like; during the right flow, rites of attraction and the like;

324.22

liquidation, eradication, and so forth [are done] separately in five ways at the equinox; / in the lower chamber is earth, above is fire, and in between is liquid;

324.23

at the side of the aperture, wind is outside; Maheśvara pervades everything; / immobilization is in the earthly, pacification in water, subjugation and the like in fire; / roaming occurs in wind; in the void, one should practice at an auspicious time.

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