Agnipurana 353

English (machine translation) 353

Language: English

353.9 — 1 part
353.21 — 1 part
353.25 — 3 parts

353.1

Skanda said: / I will fully declare the case-relation accompanied by the meanings of the case-endings: / 'The village is here, O great Sun! Here I bow to Viṣṇu along with Śrī.'

The independent [agent] is the agent (kartṛ): 'The wise attend upon the end of knowledge'; / the causative agent causes one to obtain; indeed, the beneficial [is found] in the agent-as-object (karmakartṛ):

353.3

'An ordinary mind would break by itself,' and 'The tree is cut by itself.' / The expressed agent is superior; the unexpressed agent is subordinate.

353.4

The unexpressed agent is the duty, as in: 'It is explained to the pupil.' / The agent is said to be of five kinds; hear of the object (karman) of seven kinds:

353.5

The desired object, as in: 'The ascetic places faith in Hari'; / the undesired object, as in: 'He repeatedly steps over a snake';

353.6

neither desired nor undesired: 'Eating milk, he eats dust'; / [the object] not specially stated: 'The cowherd milks milk from the cow';

353.7

then the object-as-agent: as 'The teacher makes the pupil go to the village'; / and the expressed object: 'Indeed, worship is performed for the glory of Hari';

353.8

the unexpressed object: 'One should sing the hymn of Hari that gives all.' / The instrument (karaṇa) is said to be of two kinds: external and likewise internal:

353.9

'One perceives form with the eye'; the external: 'He would reap that with a sickle.' / The recipient (sampradāna) is said to be threefold: the prompter, [as in] 'a cow to the brāhmaṇa';

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353.10

'A man gives a servant to the king'—that has an assenting [recipient]; / having an unreceptive [recipient]: 'A virtuous man would give flowers to the master.'

353.11

The point of departure (apādāna) is said to be of two kinds: moving, as in 'fallen from a running horse'; / and unmoving: 'that Vaiṣṇava comes from the village.'

353.12

And the locus (adhikaraṇa) is fourfold: all-pervading: 'ghee in curd,' / 'oil in sesame seeds'; for the purpose of the gods; [the physical] contact is spoken of:

353.13

'The monkey sits in the house, on the tree'; what is related to a sphere is taught, as in: / 'The fish is in the water, the lion in the forest'; what is based on proximity is taught, as in:

353.14

'The cowherd settlement dwells on the Gaṅgā'—such is the figurative. / And when unexpressed, the third or the sixth [case] is taught, likewise:

353.15

'Viṣṇu is worshipped by people,' [and] 'It must be gone by him or of him.' / When the agent or object is expressed, the first [case is used]; 'One should bow to Hari.'

353.16

In the sense of cause the third [is used]: 'He would live by food'; 'indeed water for the tree.' / The fourth is taught in the sense of 'for the sake of that' (tādarthya); the fifth with words beginning with *pari*, *upa*, and *āṅ*:

353.17

In connection [with them]: 'It rained around the village'; 'This god was previously powerful'; / 'east of the village'; 'Without Viṣṇu there is no liberation'; 'other than Hari.'

353.18

With *pṛthak*, *vinā*, and others, the third and also the fifth [case] occurs: / 'Apart from the village'; 'by excursion'; *vinā śrīḥ*, and *śriyā*, [or] *śriyaḥ*.

353.19

In connection with those called adnominal prepositions (karmapravacanīya), the second [case] occurs: / 'The warriors are after Arjuna'; indeed, 'around the village' is spoken of.

353.20

And with *namaḥ*, *svāhā*, *svadhā*, *svasti*, *vaṣaṭ*, and the like, the fourth [case occurs]: / 'Homage to the god'; 'Hail to you'; from an action noun meaning the infinitive (-tum):

353.21

'He goes for cooking (*pākāya*, *paktaye*)'; the third [case occurs] in connection with 'with' (saha):

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353.21_2

In the sense of cause; in a defective limb, that third [case occurs]; and in an attribute:

353.22

'The father went with the son'; 'blind in the eye'; 'Hari with the mace'; / 'The servant would reside for money.' And in time and condition, the seventh [case occurs]:

353.23

'When Viṣṇu is bowed to, liberation occurs'; 'In the spring he went to Hari.' / 'Master of men (*nṛṇām* / *nṛṣu*)'; 'Lord of men'; 'Protector of the good';

353.24

'Witness among men (*nṛṇām* / *nṛṣu*)'; 'Master among cattle (*goṣu* / *gavām*)'; / 'Charioteer among cattle (*goṣu* / *gavām*)'; 'Let there be here an heir of kings.'

353.25

'He lives for the sake of food'; the sixth [case] in the object of verbs of remembering: / 'He remembers the mother'; it is always [used] for the protector in the agent and object: / 'Splitter of waters'; 'your work'; but the sixth does not occur in participles (*niṣṭhā*), etc.

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Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit

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