Agnipurana 67
English (machine translation) 67
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- 67.5 — 5 parts
67.1
The Lord said: / I shall explain the procedure for restoring the dilapidated: The guru should bathe the adorned [image]; / if it is immovable, he should set it up in the shrine; if it is extremely decayed, he should discard it.
67.2
If it is mutilated, broken, or full of cracks, he should install another as before. / There, having withdrawn the elemental principles through the rite of dissolution, the spiritual preceptor,
67.3
having offered a thousand oblations with the Nṛsiṃha mantra, the guru should remove it. / A wooden image he should burn in fire; a stone-born one he should cast into water;
67.4
or one made of metal, or made of gems, into unfathomable water or the ocean. / Having placed the decayed body onto a cart and covered it with cloth and the like, he should convey it,
67.5
and cast it into water to the accompaniment of musical instruments; he should give a sacrificial fee to the guru. / On the [proper] day he should install another of the same dimension and the same material. / In the restoration of dilapidated wells, reservoirs, ponds, and the like, there is great fruit.
67.5.p1
Thus ends the sixty-seventh chapter, named 'The Exposition of the Restoration of the Dilapidated', in the glorious Mahāpurāṇa composed by Agni.
67.5.p2
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67.5.p3
1 'bhūṣitāñca yajed guruḥ' is the reading in the manuscript marked gha.
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67.5.p4
Now, chapter sixty-eight.
67.5.p5
Description of the rules for the procession festival.
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- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
Linked texts (1)
- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit