Agnipurana 75

English (machine translation) 75

Language: English

75.10 — 3 parts
75.20 — 5 parts
75.31 — 4 parts
75.37 — 1 part
75.40 — 6 parts
75.48 — 2 parts
75.59 — 5 parts
75.66 — 8 parts

75.1

The Lord said: / Holding the arghya vessel in hand, well covered, one should go to the fire hall; / and one should inspect all the sacrificial implements with a divine gaze.

Facing north, he should view the fire-pit. Sprinkling (prokṣaṇa) and striking with kuśa grass / should be performed with the weapon mantra; moistening (abhyukṣaṇa) is prescribed with the armor mantra.

75.3

Excavation, removal, filling, and leveling [of the earth] should be done with the sword [mantra]; / watering should be done with the armor [mantra], and pounding with the arrow mantra.

75.4

Sweeping, smearing, conceiving the forms of the kalās, / encircling with three cords, and perpetual worship should be done with the armor mantra.

75.5

One should draw three lines toward the north and one below facing east, / using a blade of kuśa grass and the Śiva-weapon mantra; or their reverse order [may be used].

75.6

With the adamantine-making (vajrīkaraṇa) mantra, the heart mantra, and darbha grass, [one constructs] the crossroad. / One should deposit the rosary vessel with the armor mantra and the seat with the heart mantra.

75.7

Invoking Vāgīśvarī and the Lord there with the heart mantra, one should worship them. / The fire brought from a good source, placed upon a clean vessel,

75.8

freed from the portion of the corpse-eating [fire], purified through viewing and other rites, / and uniting the three fires—the stomach fire, lunar fire, and elemental fire—

75.9

one should deposit it with the fire seed: "oṃ hūṃ to the consciousness of fire." / The fire consecrated with the saṃhitā mantras, made immortal with the dhenumudrā,

75.10

protected with the weapon mantra, veiled with the armor mantra, / and worshiped, should be circled clockwise three times above the fire-pit.

75.10.p1

[Gap in text]

75.10.p2

1. 'divyadṛṣṭyā vilokayed' is the reading of the two manuscripts marked gha and ṅa.

75.10.p3

2. 'śarāṇunā' is the reading of the manuscript marked ṅa.
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75.11

Meditating upon it as the seed of Śiva, one should visualize it / being cast into the womb of Vāgīśā by the god Vāgīśvara.

75.12

With knees on the ground, the practitioner should cast [it] toward himself with the heart mantra. / Then [follows] the gathering together of the seed residing within, at the region of the navel,

75.13

the procurement of clothing, and ritual purification and sipping of water with the heart mantra. / Having performed the worship of the fire in the womb, for its protection, with the arrow-mantra,

75.14

one should tie the bracelet belonging to the womb on the goddess's lotus hand. / Having worshipped the fire for the impregnation rite with [the mantra of] Sadyojāta,

75.15

one should then offer three oblations with the heart mantra. / For the rite to produce a male child, one should worship [the fire] with Vāmadeva in the third month,

75.16

and offer three oblations with the head mantra, accompanied by drops of water. / Having worshipped [the fire] with the form-mantra in the sixth month for the rite of parting the hair,

75.17

one should offer three oblations with the tuft-mantra, indeed with the tuft-mantra alone. / One should perform the fashioning of the faces and limbs, and the expiation for the opening of the mouths.

75.18

In the tenth month, with the rites of birth and rites for man, as before, / having rekindled the fire with darbha-grass and the like, [he provides] a bath removing the impurities of the womb.

75.19

Having visualized the tying of gold performed by the goddess, one should worship with the heart mantra. / For the destruction of the immediate impurity of childbirth, one should sprinkle it with water sanctified by the weapon mantra.

75.20

One should strike the pot on the outside with the weapon mantra, and sprinkle it with the armour mantra. / With the weapon mantra, [placing] kuśa grasses with their tips to the northeast outside upon the girdles,

75.20.p1

[Gap in text]

75.20.p2

1. 'tato 'ntasthitadevasya' is the reading of the manuscript marked kha.

75.20.p3

2. 'śarātmanā' is the reading of the manuscript marked kha.

75.20.p4

3. 'gandhādyair' is the reading of the manuscript marked kha.

75.20.p5

4. 'kuṇḍantu' is the reading of the two manuscripts marked kha and ṅa.
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75.21

having arranged [them], one should set upon them with the heart mantra an array of enclosing sticks. / Then, with the weapon mantra of the faces, for the removal of the umbilical cord,

75.22

five fire-sticks soaked in clarified butter at the tip and root are to be offered into the fire. / One should worship Brahmā, Śaṅkara, Viṣṇu, and Ananta with the heart mantra,

75.23

with dūrvā grass and unbroken grain all around, in sequence, situated on the enclosing sticks, / and those situated on seats in sequence, from Indra up to Īśāna,

75.24

facing toward the fire in their respective directions, one should worship with the heart mantra: / 'Having warded off the host of obstacles, may you protect the child!'

75.25

Thereupon, one should recite this Śaiva command to them. / Taking up the large and small ladles, respectively with face upwards and face downwards,

75.26

and heating them in the fire three times, one should touch them with the base, middle, and tip of a darbha grass. / Then, upon the area touched by the kuśa, [one visualizes] the three principles consisting of soul, knowledge, and Śiva,

75.27

and having deposited the three principles in order with the sounds hāṃ, hīṃ, hūṃ, and saṃ in succession, / having deposited Śakti in the small ladle and Śambhu in the large ladle with the heart mantra,

75.28

their necks wound with triple cord, worshipped with flowers and the like, / having placed them upon the kuśa grasses to one's right,

75.29

taking cow's clarified butter purified by glancing and the like, / and meditating upon one's own form as composed of Brahmā, taking that clarified butter,

75.30

circling it above the fire-pit with the heart mantra and rotating it in the sphere of fire, / and again meditating [upon oneself] as composed of Viṣṇu, holding the clarified butter in the sphere of Īśāna,

75.31

and taking [it] with the tip of a kuśa grass, with the head mantra ending in svāhā,

75.31.p1

[Gap in text]

75.31.p2

1. 'āstīryeti' is the reading of the two manuscripts marked gha and ṅa.

75.31.p3

2. 'hāṃ hrīṃ hraṃ samiti' is the reading of the manuscript marked kha; 'hūṃ hāṃ krūṃ samiti' is the reading of the manuscript marked ṅa.

75.31.p4

3. 'śirasātmanā' is the reading of the manuscript marked kha.
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75.31_2

one should offer a drop to Viṣṇu; immediately afterwards, in the form of Rudra,

75.32

meditating upon one's own self, holding [it] at the navel, one should then sprinkle [it]. / With two darbha blades of a span's measure held by the tips of the thumb and ring finger,

75.33

facing the fire, one should perform the sprinkling with the weapon mantra. / In like manner, with the heart mantra facing oneself, one should then perform the sprinkling.

75.34

One should purify the darbha touched by the heart [mantra] and scorched, by throwing the weapon [mantra] at it. / Carried with another burning darbha, one should ignite it with this.

75.35

Burnt by the weapon mantra, one should throw the darbha back into the fire. / Having thrown into the clarified butter a knotted kuśa measuring a span,

75.36

one should visualize the two wings and the triad of Iḍā and the others in the clarified butter. / Taking clarified butter in sequence from the three portions with the ladle, one should offer it into the fire.

75.37

Saying 'svāhā' into the fire, [saying] 'hāṃ' into the clarified butter, one should pour the remaining clarified butter portion in sequence:

75.37.p1

'oṃ hāṃ agnaye svāhā' (Oṃ hāṃ, to Agni, svāhā); 'oṃ hāṃ somāya svāhā' (Oṃ hāṃ, to Soma, svāhā); 'oṃ hāṃ agnīṣomābhyāṃ svāhā' (Oṃ hāṃ, to Agni and Soma, svāhā).

75.37_2

For the opening of the eyes, [one offers] into the three eyes in the face of the fire.

75.38

With the ladle filled with clarified butter, one should sacrifice the fourth oblation: / 'oṃ hāṃ agnaye sviṣṭakṛte svāhā' (Oṃ hāṃ, to Agni maker of right sacrifice, svāhā). / Having consecrated it with the six limbs, one should awaken it with the cow mudrā,

75.39

veiling it with the armour mantra, one should protect the clarified butter with the arrow-mantra. / By sprinkling drops of clarified butter with the heart mantra, having aspersioned, one should perform the purification.

75.40

Then [follows] the lubrication of the mouths, their union, and the unification of the mouths.

75.40.p1

'oṃ hāṃ sadyojātāya svāhā' (Oṃ hāṃ, to Sadyojāta, svāhā); 'oṃ hāṃ vāmadevāya svāhā' (Oṃ hāṃ, to Vāmadeva, svāhā); 'oṃ hāṃ'

75.40.p2

[Gap in text]

75.40.p3

1. 'svāhetyagnau ghṛte' is the reading of the manuscript marked ṅa.

75.40.p4

2. 'śarātmanā' is the reading of the manuscript marked ṇa.
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75.40.p5

'aghorāya svāhā' (to Aghora, svāhā); 'oṃ tatpuruṣāya svāhā' (Oṃ, to Tatpuruṣa, svāhā); 'oṃ hāṃ īśānāya svāhā' (Oṃ hāṃ, to Īśāna, svāhā)—

75.40_2

thus with an individual oblation of clarified butter, one should perform the lubrication of the mouths.

75.40.p6

'auṃ hāṃ sadyojātavāmadevābhyāṃ svāhā; oṃ hāṃ vāmadevāghorābhyāṃ svāhā; oṃ hāṃ aghoratatpuruṣābhyāṃ svāhā; oṃ hāṃ tatpuruṣeśānābhyāṃ svāhā'—

75.41

thus one should perform the connection of the mouths in order with these mantras. / Flowing from the east to the northwest, and from the southwest to the northeast,

75.42

one should unify the mouths with a stream of clarified butter from the ladle: / 'oṃ hāṃ sadyojātavāmadevāghoratatpuruṣeśānebhyaḥ svāhā' (Oṃ hāṃ, to Sadyojāta, Vāmadeva, Aghora, Tatpuruṣa, and Īśāna, svāhā). // / Thus the inclusion of the faces within the chosen face has that form.

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