Agnipurana 86
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86.1
The Lord said: / Then one should perform the conjunction of Vidyā with the preceding kalā / having done as before. Describe the principles, namely as follows:
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'oṃ hoṃ kṣīm'—this is the conjunction.
86.2
Rāga, Śuddhavidyā, Niyati together with Kalā, / Kāla, Māyā, and likewise Avidyā: this is the group of seven principles.
86.3
The six letters *ra*, *la*, *va*, *śa*, *ṣa*, and *sa* are declared to belong to Vidyā [Kalā]. / The words beginning with the Praṇava (oṃ) are twenty-one in number:
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“Oṃ namaḥ śivāya, to the all-sovereign, haṃ to Śiva, to the one whose head is Īśāna, / whose face is Tatpuruṣa, whose heart is Aghora, whose secret part is Vāmadeva, / whose form is Sadyojāta; oṃ homage, homage to the most secret of secrets, to the protector, to the boundless one, / to the ruler of all, whose nature is light, to the supreme lord, by Bhava, oṃ vyoma-…”
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1. "Holding as before" is the reading of the book marked kha.
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2. "iṃ śivāya" is the reading of the book marked kha.
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3. "vacoguhyāya" is the reading of the book marked kha.
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4. "sadyojātāya mūrtaye" is the reading of the book marked kha.
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5. "atha nidhāya sarvādhipataye" is the reading of the book marked kha. / [p. 273]
86.4
Now, O Kaśyapa, regarding the true nature of the Rudras and worlds: / The first is Vāmadeva, and then Sarvabhavodbhava,
86.5
Vajradeha, Prabhu, Dhātṛ, Kravikrama, Suprabha, / Vaṭu, Praśānta by name, and the one designated Paramākṣara,
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Śiva, Saśiva, Babhru, Akṣaya, Śambhu, / Adṛṣṭarūpa, [Adṛṣṭa]nāman, and another, Rūpavardhana,
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Manonmana, Mahāvīrya, Citrāṅga, and after him / Kalyāṇa; these should be known to be twenty-five in number.
86.8
The mantras are Aghora and Amara; there are two seed-syllables; the two channels there are likewise / Pūṣā and Hastijihvā; the two winds are Vyāna and Nāga.
86.9
The sense-object is form alone; the sense-organs are the foot and the eye; / sound, touch, and form—these three are remembered as the qualities.
86.10
The state here is deep sleep; the presiding deity is Rudra; / one should visualize all that belongs to Vidyā, such as the worlds.
86.11
Thereupon one should perform striking, severing, entry, and unlinking; / drawing [the soul] out from the region of the heart, one should seize it by means of Vidyā.
86.12
Imposing it upon oneself and grasping the Kalā, one should place it in the fire-pit. / Invoking Rudra as the cause and petitioning [him] concerning the child [initiate],
86.13
and invoking the parents, one should strike the child in the heart; / entering with the previous mantra, one should unite it with one's own self.
86.14
Drawing it out and taking it according to the rule declared before, one should join it to oneself; / taking it from the dvādaśānta, one should unite it with the womb by means of Vāmā.
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1. "buddha" is the reading of the books marked gha and ṅa.
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2. "āvāhanaṃ kuryāt" is the reading of the books marked ga and gha. / [p. 274]
86.15
One should effect the acquisition of a body, birth, qualification, / experience, dissolution, purification of the current [of faculties], and purification of the cosmic principles,
86.16
for the cessation of all bonds such as impurity and karma. / For expiation according to the rule, one should offer a hundred oblations into the fire.
86.17
By means of the Astra [mantra], loosening of the fetter, concealment of the power of impurity, / severing and crushing of them, as well as rolling them into a ball,
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burning, non-existence of their syllables, and then the expiation are declared; / invocation of Rudrāṇī, worship, and offering of form and fragrance.
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“Oṃ hrīṃ, form and fragrance are the fee; O Rudra, accept it, svāhā.”
86.19
Proclaiming the command of Śiva and dismissing the cause, Rudra, / having established consciousness in oneself, one should place it on the thread of bonds.
86.20
Having placed the bindu on the head, one should then dismiss the parents; / one should offer the full oblation according to rule, fulfilling all procedures.
86.21
Striking and the rest should be performed in Vidyā according to the rule declared before; / the distinction, however, is its own seed-syllable. Thus Vidyā is purified.
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Thus ends the eighty-sixth chapter, entitled “The Purification of Vidyā,” in the liberating initiation of the venerable and primeval Agni Purāṇa.
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Now, the eighty-seventh chapter.
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The account of the purification of Śānti [Kalā].
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