Agnipurana 47
English (machine translation) 47
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47.1
The Lord said: / I shall declare to you the worship of the [stones] marked with discs such as the śālagrāma, for attainment. / Worship of Hari is of three kinds: with desire, desireless, and consisting of both.
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For the five beginning with the Fish, [it is] with desire, or consisting of both;
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[Alternative reading:] 'madhyacakrādhaḥ sūkṣmavinduka iti' is the variant reading in the manuscript marked ṅa.
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[Alternative reading:] 'kāmyārthevobhayātmaketi' is the variant reading in the manuscript marked gha. / [Page 135]
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for Varāha, Nṛsiṃha, and Vāmana, [it is] for liberation.
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Listen to the worship of the śālagrāma and others of the three, beginning with the disc: / The highest worship is without [desire for] fruit; the lowest worship is [attended] with fruit.
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The middling is the worship of the icon on a four-sided [diagram] with a disc and a lotus. / Having deposited the praṇava in the heart, and the six limbs upon the hands and body,
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having made the three ritual gestures, one should worship the guru outside the disc in the east; / one should worship Gaṇa in the west, Dhātṛ in the north-west, and Nairṛta in the south-west;
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Vidhātṛ and the Creator and the Destroyer in the south and north; / one should worship Viṣvaksena in the north-east, and the Kṣetrapāla in the south-east;
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the Vedas beginning with the Ṛgveda in the east and the other [quarters]; the Support, Ananta, the earth, / the seat, the lotus, and the three maṇḍalas named Sun, Moon, and Fire;
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having placed the stone there on the seat with the twelve-syllable mantra, one should worship it. / One should worship it successively with the weapon[-mantra], with the complete [mantra], and with its own seed-syllable.
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Then in the east and other [directions], with the Vedic [mantras] and others, with the two Gāyatrīs, with [the hymn] beginning with 'Jita', / and with the praṇava, one should worship afterwards; one should show the three ritual gestures.
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One should show [the gestures] of Viṣvaksena, of the disc, and of the Kṣetrapāla. / The first worship of the śālagrāma is said to be without [desire for] fruit.
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As before, one should draw a sixteen-spoked maṇḍala with a lotus. / With conch, disc, mace, and sword, one should worship the guru and the others as before.
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In the east and the north, [one places] bow and arrows; one should offer a seat with the Vedic [mantras] and others. / One should deposit the stone with the twelve-syllable mantra. Listen to the third worship:
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One should draw an eight-petalled lotus and worship the guru and the others as before.
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[Alternative reading:] 'caturbhiḥ pūrvavadyajediti' is the variant reading in the manuscript marked ṅa.
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[Alternative reading:] 'gandhādyair iti' is the variant reading in the manuscript marked ṅa. / [Page 136]
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Having offered the seat with the eight-syllable mantra, one should deposit the stone with that very [mantra].
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One should worship tenfold with that, with the two Gāyatrīs, and likewise [with the hymn] 'Jita'.
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Thus ends the forty-seventh chapter, titled 'Declaration of the Worship of the Śālagrāma and Others', in the venerable Mahāpurāṇa composed by Agni.
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Now the forty-eighth chapter.
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Declaration of the hymn of praise to the twenty-four icons.
Other recensions (1)
- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
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- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit