Agnipurana 325
English (machine translation) 325
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325.1
The Lord said: / I will explain the worship of Umā that brings good fortune and other [blessings], bestowing worldly enjoyment and liberation, / along with the mantra, meditation, maṇḍala, ritual gesture, and the means [consisting of] fire oblation and the rest.
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Taking the Fire [‘r’], Śiva [‘h’], Time [‘m’], joined with the Great Power [‘ī’], / and having extracted [the seed-syllable] after Iḍā and the rest, together with the deity and the transformations,
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and the second [syllable] accompanied by the dvārakā, endowed with the phrase that pleases Gaurī, / which should be formed ending in the dative case, as the expression of the basic mantra of Gaurī:
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“Oṃ hrīṃ saḥ śauṃ gauryai namaḥ” (Oṃ hrīṃ saḥ śauṃ, homage to Gaurī).
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There, having six angulas, accompanied by the caste with the triad of letters; / the seat [is deposited] with the Praṇava, and the icon indeed with the heart[-mantra].
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One should likewise extract the water [syllable], Time, and the seed-syllable of Śiva; / [then] the vital breath accompanied by a long vowel, as the six limbs together with the caste[-formulas].
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The seat [is deposited] here with the Praṇava, and one should perform the ritual deposition of the icon with the heart[-mantra]. / The paired [rite] has been taught, O child; now I will declare the solitary hero [rite].
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The pervasive [syllable] conjoined with creation, through Fire, Māyā, and the flame, / the seed-syllable consisting of Śiva and Śakti, the seed-syllable devoid of the heart and other [limbs].
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One should worship Gaurī [as an icon] made of gold, silver, wood, stone, and the like; / or as five lumps, or unmanifest, [worshipping them] in the corner and the fifth in the center:
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Lalitā, Subhagā, Gaurī, and Kṣobhaṇī, in order, starting from the southeast.
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[Footnote]
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[Reading note:] 'pañcamī' in MS ña. Page 180.
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In the circular [area], starting from the east, one should worship Vāmā, Jyeṣṭhā, Kriyā, and Jñānā.
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On the left side of the pedestal, [one should place] the unmanifest form of Śiva; / or the manifest one, two-eyed, of three syllables, pure, or accompanied by Śaṅkara,
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having a pedestal and two lotuses, luminous, with two arms or four arms, / seated upon a lion or seated upon a wolf, with eight or eighteen auspicious hands,
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holding a garland, a rosary, an unblown flower bud, a neck ornament, a blue lotus, a ball of food, / an arrow, or a bow, carrying any one with the right hand,
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and with the left hand a book, betel, a staff, the gesture of fearlessness, and a water-pot. / One should place Gaṇeśa, a mirror, and a bow one by one in succession.
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Or she should be made manifest-unmanifest; the lotus-mudrā is remembered for the seat. / The liṅga-mudrā is taught for Śiva, and the invocation mudrā for both of them.
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The Śakti-mudrā is called the Yoni[-mudrā]. The maṇḍala is square; / a square three-petaled lotus is in the four central compartments.
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Above the triangle is a crescent moon, progressively two padas, doubled; / doubled at the neck of the doorway, doubled from the outer neck,
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with three doorways, three in the cardinal directions; or one should worship upon a bhadraka [maṇḍala], / or having established [the icon] on an altar with the five products of the cow, nectar, and the rest,
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red flowers are to be offered. Having worshipped facing north, / and having offered a hundred oblations of nectar and clarified butter, one who offers the complete oblation enjoys all perfections.
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Having offered an animal sacrifice, one should feed three or eight maiden girls. / One should distribute the food offering among the devotees of Śiva and not consume it oneself.
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[Footnote]
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[Reading note:] 'siṃhasthāvāhyasiṃhasthā' in MSS kha, cha, ña, and ṭa.
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[Reading note:] 'striyo vāṣṭa ca bhojayet' in MSS kha and cha. Page 181.
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One who desires a maiden obtains a maiden; one without a son obtains a son; / an unfortunate woman [obtains] good fortune; a king obtains a kingdom and victory in battle.
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With eight hundred thousand [recitations], one achieves perfection of speech, and the gods and others come under control. / One should never eat without having first offered [the food], and one should worship with the left hand.
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On the eighth, the fourteenth, and especially on the third lunar day, / I will declare the worship of the Conqueror of Death (Mṛtyuñjaya); one should worship inside a water jar.
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The oblation and the Praṇava; the icon of vigor is of such a nature; / and the root mantra ending in ‘vauṣaṭ’; one should display the water-pot mudrā.
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One should offer into the fire milk, dūrvā grass, clarified butter, amṛtā, and punarnavā, / as well as milk-rice and sacrificial cake, and recite the mantra ten thousand times.
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Four-faced, four-armed, holding a water jar with two [hands], / and [bestowing] the boon and fearlessness with two, one should bathe with the water-pot mudrā.
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Health, prosperity, long life, and blessed consecrated medicine [are attained]; / meditated upon and worshipped, he is indeed wondrous, dispelling untimely death.
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Thus in the great Agni Purāṇa, the three hundred and twenty-fifth chapter, entitled 'The Worship of Gaurī and Others.'
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Now, the three hundred and twenty-sixth chapter.
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The Greatness of the Temple.
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- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
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- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit