Agnipurana 45

English (machine translation) 45

Language: English

45.2 — 4 parts
45.13 — 2 parts
45.16 — 3 parts

45.1

The Blessed Lord said: / I shall state the characteristics of the pedestal: it is equal to the image in length, / and its height is half of the image; it is divided into sixty-four compartments.

45.2

Leaving two rows below, whatever square is above that,

45.2.p2

1 'Likewise one and a half digits in length' is the reading in manuscript ṅa.

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2 'Jewel-bearing Vidyādharas' is the reading in manuscript gha.

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3 'Consisting of sixty-four squares' is the reading in manuscript ṅa.
:p 132

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on both sides all around, one should erase the interior [squares].

45.3

Leaving two rows above, whatever square is below, / one should carefully erase inside, equally on both sides.

45.4

Then, one should erase the four-square space situated between the two. / Having divided the upper two rows into four parts, the wise person

45.5

should make the girdle one part in size, and the cavity half of that in measure. / Having left one part each equally on both sides,

45.6

and having given one square on the outside, the wise person should make the measurement. / And at one-third of a part in front should be the water spout.

45.7

With various types of divisions, this auspicious pedestal is of the Bhadra type. / The goddess Lakṣmī and other female [deities] should be made measuring eight tālas.

45.8

The two eyebrows should be made larger by one barley-corn, but the nose smaller by one barley-corn. / The mouth is greater by the eyeball, devoid of upward or oblique [distortion].

45.9

The two eyes should be made elongated by three barley-corns minus a third; / and one should fix the width of the two eyes as half of that.

45.10

The earlobe should be made larger, on an even line with the corners of the mouth;
and one should make the two parts sloping down, reduced by a digit.

45.11

The neck should be made one and a half kalās [in height], adorned with a width [equal to] that. / Leaving aside the eyes, [such are] the widths; and [so are] the thighs, the knees, and the pedestal.

45.12

One should fashion the tops of the feet and the buttocks on the hip in their proper proportion. / Likewise, the fingers are reduced by a seventh part, long, struck [proportionately] by the diameter.

45.13

The shanks, thighs, and likewise the waist have a length minus one eye[-measure]; / and the waist-side is rounded, and the pair of breasts is firm and plump.

45.13.p2

[Alternative reading:] 'tatreyamiti' is the variant reading in the manuscript marked ṅa. / [Page 133]

45.15

The breasts should be made one tāla [in size]; the waist is greater by one and a half kalās. / The remaining characteristic should be as before, and in the right hand an aquatic lotus.

On the left, [the emblem of] wealth; two auspicious women on the sides holding chowries in their hands. / But Garuḍa has a prominent beak. Now I shall declare [the icons] marked with the disc and others.

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Thus ends the forty-fifth chapter, titled 'The Characteristics of the Pedestal and other Marks', in the venerable Mahāpurāṇa composed by Agni.

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Now the forty-sixth chapter.

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Declaration of the characteristics of the icons such as the śālagrāma.

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Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit

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Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit