Agnipurana 57
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57.1
The Holy One said: / One should take possession of the ground, and scatter rice and mustard seeds; / with the Nṛsiṃha [mantra] destroying demons, he should sprinkle [the site] with the five cow-products.
57.2
Having worshiped the earth in the pot, and Hari with his limbs alongside jewels, / he should worship the water-pot there one hundred and eight times with the weapon-mantra.
57.3
Sprinkling with an unbroken stream, having consecrated the rice grains, he should hold [them].
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[Apparatus note 1: "astramantreṇa kavacam" is the variant reading in manuscript ṅa]
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Circumambulating clockwise, he should scatter [them] over the pot.
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Upon the cloth-covered pot he should again worship Acyuta and Śrī; / with the mantra "In union after union...", he should place the bed on the maṇḍala.
57.5
And upon the kuśa grass [he should place] a mattress; on the bed and in the cardinal and intermediate directions / he should worship the lords of knowledge: Viṣṇu, the Slayer of Madhu, Trivikrama,
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Vāmana in the directions starting with north-west, Śrīdhara, Hṛṣīkeśa, / Padmanābha, and Dāmodara; [and] in the north-east in the bathing pavilion.
57.7
Having worshiped, afterwards in the north-east, with four pots, equipped with an altar / in the small bathing pavilion, having brought all materials, he should deposit them.
57.8
In the bathing pots, he should perform the preliminary consecration of those pots in the four directions; / jars must indeed be placed with care for the purpose of the consecration by aspersion.
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Banyan, udumbara, and aśvattha; campaka, aśoka, and śrī-trees; / palāśa, arjuna, and plakṣa; kadamba, bakula, and mango:
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having collected their sprouts, he should place them into the eastern pot. / Padmaka wood, yellow orpiment, dūrvā grass, and tufts of darbha grass,
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jasmine flower, kunda flower, sandalwood, red sandalwood, / white mustard, tagara, and rice: he should place these in the south.
57.12
Gold, silver, and earth from both banks / of a river that flows into the ocean, especially earth from the Ganges,
57.13
cow dung, barley, winter rice, and sesame seeds he should place in the west. / Viṣṇuparṇī, śyāmalatā, bhṛṅgarāja, śatāvarī,
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[Apparatus note 1: "dikṣu vahnyādāv" is the variant reading in manuscript ṅa]
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[Apparatus note 2: "catustambhe" is the variant reading in manuscript ga]
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[Apparatus note 3: "padmakāśokaśrīdrumān" is the variant reading in manuscript ga]
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[Apparatus note 4: "parṇakumbha" is the variant reading in manuscript ṅa]
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sahadevā, mahādevī, balā, vyāghrī, along with lakṣmaṇā: / in the north-east, in another pot, he should place these auspicious herbs.
57.15
He should deposit ant-hill earth, taken from seven places, in another [pot]; / he should deposit water and sand from the Ganges in another pot.
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Earth dug up by the tusks of a boar, a bull, and a noble elephant; / and earth from the root of a lotus and of kuśa grass he should place in another [pot].
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He should also place [water] combined with earth from sacred fords and mountains in another [pot]; / and in another [pot] he should place the nāgakesara flower and saffron.
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And in another [pot] he should place flowers along with sandalwood, agarwood, and camphor; / cat's eye, coral, pearl, crystal, and diamond:
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having placed these together, he should set them down, O best of gods. / In another [pot] he should deposit waters from rivers, streams, and ponds.
57.20
And in the pavilion he should place other jars on eighty-one squares; / filled with fragrant water and the like, he should consecrate them with the Śrīsūkta.
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Barley, white mustard, perfume, the tip of kuśa grass, and unbroken grain, / sesame seeds, fruit, and flowers: he should place these in the east for the water offering.
57.22
Lotus, śyāmalatā, dūrvā grass, viṣṇuparṇī, and kuśa grass / for foot-washing water in the southern quarter; and honey-mixture in the south.
57.23
Kakkolaka, clove, and auspicious nutmeg / in the north for rinsing the mouth; in the fire [direction] a vessel with dūrvā and unbroken grain
57.24
for the waving of lights, and similarly an unguent in the wind [direction]; / he should deposit a vessel accompanied by perfume and flowers in a vessel in the north-east.
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1 "sahadevāṃ siṃhapucchīm" is the reading in the manuscript marked kha; "sahadevāṃ javāṃ siṃhīm" is the reading in the manuscript marked ṅa.
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2 "madhuparkantu paścime" is the reading in the manuscript marked ṅa. / [Page 163]
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Murā, māṃsī, āmalaka, sahadevā, turmeric and the like; / one should place sixty lamps, and place eight for waving lights.
57.26
Having made a conch, discus, śrīvatsa, thunderbolt, lotus, and so forth / in a vessel of gold or other [metal], with flowers of various colours and the like.
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Thus ends the fifty-seventh chapter, entitled "Preliminary Consecration of the Water Jars," in the venerable Agni Mahāpurāṇa.
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Now the fifty-eighth chapter.
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The Rite of Bathing and Related Ceremonies
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- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
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