Agniveshyagrihyasutra 2.4.12
Āgniveśyagṛhyasūtra 2.4.12
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- Sanskrit
2.4.12.v-1
praṇavaṃ cāgnidaivatyaṃ parabrahmasvarūpiṇam \
And the sacred syllable Om has Agni as its deity, having the nature of supreme Brahman;
2.4.12.v-2
chandastu devī gāyatrī ṛṣirbrahmeti kīrtitaḥ \\
the meter is the goddess Gāyatrī, and the seer is proclaimed to be Brahmā.
2.4.12.3
praṇavaṃ namaskaromi sarvadevatāmayaṃ śṛṇu viṣṇumabravīditi praṇavaṃ tryakṣareṇa akārokāramakārākṣareṇa \
"I pay homage to the sacred syllable Om, which consists of all deities. Listen!"—thus Viṣṇu spoke—the sacred syllable Om with its three phonemes, with the phonemes A, U, and M:
2.4.12.4
akāro 'gniḥ ukāraḥ sūryaḥ makāraścandraḥ \
The phoneme A is Agni; the phoneme U is Sūrya; and the phoneme M is Soma.
2.4.12.5
akāro brahmā ukāro viṣṇuḥ makāra īśvaraḥ \
The phoneme A is Brahmā; the phoneme U is Viṣṇu; the phoneme M is Īśvara.
2.4.12.6
akāro napuṃsakaḥ ukāraḥ pullim̐ṅgaḥ makāraḥ strīliṅgaḥ \
The phoneme A is neuter gender; the phoneme U is masculine gender; the phoneme M is feminine gender.
2.4.12.7
akāro miśravarṇaḥ ukāro raktavarṇaḥ makāraḥ śvetavarṇaḥ \
The phoneme A is of mixed colour; the phoneme U is of red colour; the phoneme M is of white colour.
2.4.12.8
upamārahitāḥ aumakārātmakāḥ kālatrayātmakāḥ lokatrayātmakāḥ ṛgyajussāmātmakāḥ avasthātrayātmakāḥ praṇavoccāraṇena mahadaiśvaryadāyakāḥ mūlādhārānāhatabhrūmadhye sthitāḥ akārokāramakārāḥ udāttānudāttasvaritāḥ vakṣyāmy tirahasyamiti \
Incomparable, consisting of the sacred syllable Om, consisting of the three times, consisting of the three worlds, consisting of the Ṛg, Yajus, and Sāma, consisting of the three states, granting great sovereignty by the utterance of the sacred syllable Om, abiding in the Mūlādhāra, Anāhata, and between the eyebrows—the phonemes A, U, and M, possessing acute, grave, and circumflex accents: "I shall proclaim the supreme secret."
2.4.12.9
ṛgvede praṇavaṃ yajurvede praṇavaṃ sāmavede praṇavaṃ triḥ brūyāt \
He should recite the sacred syllable Om in the Ṛgveda, the sacred syllable Om in the Yajurveda, the sacred syllable Om in the Sāmaveda three times.
2.4.12.10
tasyottarā bhūyase nirvacanāya \\12\\
Its subsequent [verse] is for further explanation.
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