Agnipurana 52

English (machine translation) 52

Language: English

52.1 — 6 parts
52.9 — 8 parts
52.16 — 9 parts

52.1

The Lord said: / I shall describe the sixty-four Yoginīs in order from east to northeast:

52.1.p2

1. The reading in the two manuscripts marked ga and gha is "śikhinīsūtravān śaniḥ".

52.1.p3

2. The reading in the manuscript marked gha is "khaḍgo".

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3. The reading in the manuscript marked kha is "maṇividyādharāś ca khe".

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4. The reading in the manuscript marked kha is "vistṛtānanāḥ".

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5. The reading in the manuscripts marked ga, gha, and ṅa is "śūlayutāḥ".

52.1_2

Akṣobhyā, Rūkṣakarṇā, Rākṣasī, Kṛpaṇā, Kṣayā,

52.2

Piṅgākṣī, Kṣayā, Kṣemā, Ilā, Līlālayā, / Lolā, Laktā, Balākeśī, Lālasā, and Vimalā;

52.3

Hutāśā, Viśālākṣī, Huṅkārā, Vaḍavāmukhī, / Mahākrūrā, Krodhanā, Bhayaṅkarī, Mahānanā,

52.4

Sarvajñā, Taralā, Tārā, Ṛgvedā, Hayānanā, / Sārākhyā, Rudrasaṅgrāhī, Śambarā, Tālajaṅghikā,

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Raktākṣī, Suprasiddhā, Vidyujjihvā, Karaṅkiṇī, / Meghanādā, Pracaṇḍogrā, Kālakarṇī, Varapradā,

52.6

Candrā, Candrāvalī, Prapañcā, Pralayāntikā, / Śiśuvaktrā, Piśācī, Piśitāśā, Lolupā,

52.7

Dhamanī, Tāpanī, Rāgiṇī, Vikṛtānanā, / Vāyuvegā, Bṛhatkukṣi, Vikṛtā, Viśvarūpikā,

52.8

Yamajihvā, Jayantī, Durjayā, Jayāntikā, / Biḍālī, Revatī, Pūtanā, and Vijayāntikā.

52.9

They have eight arms or four arms, hold weapons according to desire, and grant all supernatural attainments.

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1. The reading in the manuscript marked kha is "kṣapaṇā kṣamā"; the reading in the two manuscripts marked ga and gha is "kṣapaṇā kṣapā".

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2. The reading in the three manuscripts marked ga, gha, and ṅa is "lolā raktā ca lokeśī".

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3. The reading in the two manuscripts marked ga and gha is "vimalā tataḥ".

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4. The reading in the manuscript marked kha is "rasasaṅgrāhī"; the reading in the manuscript marked gha is "vasusaṅgrāhī".

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5 "kālavarṇī" is the reading of the two manuscripts marked ga and gha.

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6 "caṇḍā caṇḍavatī" is the reading of the manuscript marked ṅa.

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7 "vāmanī" is the reading of the manuscripts marked kha, ga, and ṅa.

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Bhairava should have twelve hands, an elbow-like face, and bear matted locks and the moon.

52.10

Holding a sword, an elephant goad, an axe, an arrow, and dispelling universal fear on one side, / and raising a bow, a trident, a skull-topped staff, a noose, and a half-[gesture] granting boons;

52.11

Wearing an elephant hide with two [hands], clad in animal skins, adorned with serpents, / feeding on corpses, he is to be worshipped in the midst of the Mothers, or [depicted] five-faced.

52.12

One should worship the [mantra] differentiated by the eight long vowels, ending with non-inverted fire, / and its six limbs endowed in sequence with those terminating in jāti-words.

52.13

Mounted on a leaf of the temple-fire, endowed with gold and mercury, / accompanied by the sound and crescent-bindu, illuminated by the limb of the Lord of the Mothers.

52.14

Vīrabhadra is mounted on a bull, in front of the Mothers, with four faces. / But Gaurī is two-armed, three-eyed, holding a trident, and accompanied by a mirror.

52.15

Four-armed, [she holds] a trident, a water-pot, an ascetic's vessel, and gives boons. / Seated on a lotus, Lalitā [is adorned] with a mirror-probe of the gaṇas of Skanda.

Caṇḍikā should have ten hands, bearing a sword, a trident, a discus, and a spear / in the right, and in the left a serpent-noose, a shield, a goad, an axe, / and a bow; and the buffalo [demon] is fiercely struck by the trident on the lion.