Agni Purana — Chapter 118

AgP 118.1

:ए इत्य् आग्नेये महापुराणे श्राद्धकल्पो नाम सप्तदशाधिकशततमो ऽध्यायः ॥ छप्तेर् {११८} :श् अथाष्टादशाधिकशततमो ऽध्यायः भारतवर्षं अग्निर् उवाच उत्तरं यत् समुद्रस्य हिमाद्रेश् चैव दक्षिणं वर्षं तद् भारतं नाम नवसाहस्रविस्तृतं

:e ity āgneye mahāpurāṇe śrāddhakalpo nāma saptadaśādhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ || chapter {118} :ś athāṣṭādaśādhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ bhāratavarṣaṃ agnir uvāca uttaraṃ yat samudrasya himādreś caiva dakṣiṇaṃ varṣaṃ tad bhārataṃ nāma navasāhasravistṛtaṃ

Thus ends the one hundred seventeenth chapter, called "The Rite of Śrāddha," in the glorious Agni Mahāpurāṇa. || Chapter 118. Now the one hundred eighteenth chapter: The Land of Bhārata. Agni said: The land that is north of the ocean and south of the Himālaya mountain is named Bhārata, nine thousand (yojanas) in extent.

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AgP 118.2

कर्मभूमिरियं स्वर्गमपवर्गं च गच्छतां :न् १ यस्तु लभेच्छ्राद्धकृतं फलमिति ख॥ , छ॥ , ज॥ च २ वाराणसी इति ख॥ , ङ॥ , छ॥ , ज॥ च :प् २१ महेन्द्रो मलयः सह्यः शुक्तिमान् हेमपर्वतः(१)

karmabhūmiriyaṃ svargamapavargaṃ ca gacchatāṃ :n 1 yastu labhecchrāddhakṛtaṃ phalamiti kha.. , cha.. , ja.. ca 2 vārāṇasī iti kha.. , ṅa.. , cha.. , ja.. ca :p 21 mahendro malayaḥ sahyaḥ śuktimān hemaparvataḥ(1)

This is the land of works for those who go to heaven and to final release. [Variants: 1. "yas tu labhec chrāddhakṛtaṃ phalam" in mss. kha, cha and ja; 2. "vārāṇasī" in mss. kha, ṅa, cha and ja.] [p. 21] Mahendra, Malaya, Sahya, Śuktimat, the Golden Mountain,

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AgP 118.3

विन्ध्यश् च पारिपात्रश् च सप्तात्र कुलपर्वताः इन्द्रद्वीपः कसेरुश् च ताम्रवर्णो गभस्तिमान्

vindhyaś ca pāripātraś ca saptātra kulaparvatāḥ indradvīpaḥ kaseruś ca tāmravarṇo gabhastimān

and Vindhya and Pāripātra — these seven here are the family (principal) mountains. Indradvīpa, Kaseru, Tāmravarṇa, Gabhastimat,

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AgP 118.4

नागद्वीपस् तथा सौम्यो गान्धर्वस्त्वथ वारुणः अयं तु नवमस्तेषु द्वीपः सागरसंवृतः

nāgadvīpas tathā saumyo gāndharvastvatha vāruṇaḥ ayaṃ tu navamasteṣu dvīpaḥ sāgarasaṃvṛtaḥ

Nāgadvīpa, likewise Saumya, Gāndharva, and then Vāruṇa; and this one, the ninth among them, is the island encircled by the sea.

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AgP 118.5

योजनानां सहस्राणि द्वीपोयं दक्षिणोत्तरात् नव भेदा भारतस्य(२) मध्यभेदे ऽथ पूर्वतः

yojanānāṃ sahasrāṇi dvīpoyaṃ dakṣiṇottarāt nava bhedā bhāratasya(2) madhyabhede 'tha pūrvataḥ

This island (extends) thousands of yojanas from south to north. Nine are the divisions of Bhārata. Now, in the middle division, toward the east,

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AgP 118.6

किराता यवनाश्चापि ब्राह्मणाद्याश् च मध्यतः वेदस्मृतिमुखा नद्यः पारिपात्रोद्भवास् तथा

kirātā yavanāścāpi brāhmaṇādyāś ca madhyataḥ vedasmṛtimukhā nadyaḥ pāripātrodbhavās tathā

(are) the Kirātas, and the Yavanas (in the west), and in the middle the brahmins and the rest. The rivers headed by the Vedasmṛti are those that rise from the Pāripātra;

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AgP 118.7

विन्ध्याच्च नर्मदाद्याः स्युः सह्यात्तापी पयोष्णिका गोदावरीभीमरथीकृष्णवेणादिकास् तथा

vindhyācca narmadādyāḥ syuḥ sahyāttāpī payoṣṇikā godāvarībhīmarathīkṛṣṇaveṇādikās tathā

and from the Vindhya come the Narmadā and the rest; from the Sahya the Tāpī and the Payoṣṇī, and likewise the Godāvarī, Bhīmarathī, Kṛṣṇaveṇā and others;

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AgP 118.8

मलयात् कृतमालाद्यास्त्रिसामाद्या महेन्द्रजाः कुमाराद्याः शुक्तिमतो(३) हिमाद्रेश् चन्द्रभागका

malayāt kṛtamālādyāstrisāmādyā mahendrajāḥ kumārādyāḥ śuktimato(3) himādreś candrabhāgakā

from the Malaya the Kṛtamālā and the rest; those born of Mahendra begin with the Trisāmā; those from Śuktimat begin with the Kumārī; and from the Himālaya the Candrabhāgā and the others.

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AgP 118.9

पश्चिमे कुरुपाञ्चालमध्यदेशादयःस्थिताः

paścime kurupāñcālamadhyadeśādayaḥsthitāḥ

In the west are situated the Kurus, the Pañcālas, the Madhyadeśa and the rest.

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