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Agnipurana 37

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37.1

Agni said: / Listen briefly to the investiture with sacred thread for all deities. / The sacred thread should possess all distinguishing marks, and it may also be placed in self-kindled fire.

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"O Source of the universe, come together with the hosts of your attendants! / I invite [you]; in the morning I shall give you the sacred thread."

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"Homage to you, O Creator of the universe! Please accept this sacred thread,

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[Footnote]

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[Footnote 1: "pavitrāropaṇam" is the reading in manuscript Kha.]

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[Footnote 2: "jagatsūte" is the reading in manuscript Ña.]

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for the sake of purification, yielding the fruit of a year's worship."

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"Homage to you, Lord Śiva! Please accept this sacred thread, / with garlands of gems and corals, with mandāra blossoms and other flowers:

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May this yearly worship belong to you, O Lord who knows the Vedas! / Having performed this yearly worship of mine according to rule,

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go now, O sacred thread, dismissed to the heavenly world!" / "Homage to you, Sun god! Please accept this sacred thread,

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for the sake of purification, yielding the fruit of a year's worship." / "Homage to you, Lord Śiva! Please accept this sacred thread,

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for the sake of purification, yielding the fruit of a year's worship." / "Homage to you, O Bāṇeśvara! Please accept this sacred thread,

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for the sake of purification, yielding the fruit of a year's worship." / "Homage to you, Lord of Śakti! Please accept this sacred thread,

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for the sake of purification, yielding the fruit of a year's worship." / The excellent thread consisting of Nārāyaṇa, consisting of Aniruddha,

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bestowing wealth, grain, long life, and health, I give to you. / The excellent thread consisting of Kāmadeva, consisting of Saṅkarṣaṇa,

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bestowing knowledge, offspring, and good fortune, I give to you. / The thread consisting of Vāsudeva, bestowing righteousness, desire, wealth, and liberation,

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the cause of crossing over the ocean of worldly existence, I give to you. / The thread consisting of the Universal Form, all-bestowing and destroying sin,

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[Footnote]

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[Footnote 1: "gaṇeśvara" is the reading in the three manuscripts Ga, Gha, and Ña.]

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[Footnote 2: "param" is the reading in manuscript Ña.]

37.14

delivering the past and future family, I give to you. / I gave the four [threads], the smallest and so on, in succession with the mantras.

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Thus in the ancient Great Purāṇa composed by Agni, the thirty-seventh chapter, named "The Summary of the Investiture with Sacred Thread."

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Now the thirty-eighth chapter:

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The fruit of building a temple.

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