Agnipurana 69
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69.1
Agni said:
O brāhmaṇa, hear! I shall declare the details of the bathing festival:
In front of the temple, one should place pots in a pavilion upon a maṇḍala.
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One should perform meditation, worship, and fire oblation to Hari at the beginning of the rites;
one should make fire oblations a thousand or a hundred times along with the final full oblation.
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Then, having fetched the bath ingredients, one should also arrange the jars;
having performed the preliminary consecration, one should set the pots with cords bound round their necks upon the maṇḍala.
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Having made a square city, he should divide it by eleven;
having placed the sacrificial porridge in the centre, he should wipe the row at the side.
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Having filled it with rice flour and the like, in the groups of nine starting in the east,
then having formed the pot gesture, the wise one should bring the pot there.
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He should dismiss those darbha grasses with the mantra of the Lotus-eyed One;
he should place a pot filled with water and equipped with all gems in the centre.
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Barley, rice grains, sesame, wild rice, and śyāmāka grain in order,
horsegram, mung beans, and white mustard—their crushed forms in the eight directions.
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In the eastern group of nine, in the centre, he should place a pot filled with ghee;
with the tops of palāśa, aśvattha, nyagrodha, vilva, udumbara,
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jambū, śamī, and kapittha bark-decoctions, eight pots [are filled];
in the south-eastern group of nine, in the centre, he should place a pot filled with honey.
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From the horn of a cow, a horse, the Gaṅgā, and the tusk of a lordly elephant,
and from a sacred ford, a field, and a threshing floor—these should be eight soils in eight pots.
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1 'pravibhāvayet' is the reading in the three manuscripts marked kha, ga, and gha.
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In the southern group of nine, in the centre, he should place a pot of sesame oil;
orange, and then lime, date, grape, in order,
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coconut, betel nut, pomegranate, and jackfruit: he should deposit the fruits.
In the south-western group of nine, in the centre, he should place a pot filled with milk.
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Saffron, nāgapuṣpa, campaka, and jasmine in order,
mallikā, then punnāga, oleander, and blue water lily—
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flowers; and in the western group of nine, in the centre indeed, a coconut.
River water, ocean water, lake water, and well water,
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rainwater, snow water, spring water, and water from the Gaṅgā:
these waters; then in the north-western group of nine, plantain fruit,
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sahadevī, kumārī, siṃhī, vyāghrī, and amṛtā,
viṣṇuparṇī, śataśivā, vacā: he should place these divine herbs.
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Beginning in the east, in the northern group of nine, in the centre he should place a pot of curds;
patra, cardamom, cinnamon, costus, bālaka, the two types of sandalwood,
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creeper, musk, and black agarwood in succession:
these accomplished substances beginning in the east; then soothing water on one side.
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In order, he should place silver, mother-of-pearl, iron, tin,
camphor, lead, beginning in the east, and precious stones.
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Having anointed with ghee and rubbed [the image] with fragrant paste, one should bathe it with the root mantra. / One should worship it with perfumes and other offerings, and having made fire oblations in Agni, perform the final oblation.
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He who has paid the sacrificial fee should present an offering of food to all beings and feed them. / By gods, sages, and kings, the god having been consecrated, the lords
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1 'ghoṣasāram' is the reading in the three manuscripts marked kha, ga, and gha.
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2 'devaiś ca munibhiḥ sārdham' is the reading in the manuscript marked ṅa; 'divyaiś ca balibhirdhūpair devam' is the reading in the manuscript marked gha.
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they became. Having consecrated [him] in this manner, one should celebrate the festival of bathing. / With one thousand and eight pitchers, one becomes a sharer in all [merit].
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The complete ceremonial bath is performed by means of the ritual concluding bath of the sacrifice. / The weddings of Gaurī and Lakṣmī and other festivals are preceded by bathing.
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Thus ends the sixty-ninth chapter, entitled 'The Concluding Bath of the Sacrifice', in the primary Mahāpurāṇa, the Āgneya.
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Now, the seventieth chapter.
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Instruction on the consecration of trees and the like.
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- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
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- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit