Agni Purana — Chapter 128
AgP 128.1
:ए इत्य् आग्नेये महापुराणे युद्धजयार्णवे नानाबलानि नाम सप्तविंशत्यधिकशततमो ऽध्यायः ॥ छप्तेर् {१२८} :श् अथ अष्टाविंशत्यधिकशततमो ऽध्यायः कोटचक्रम् ईअवर उवाच कोटचक्रं प्रवक्ष्यामि चतुरस्रं पुरं लिखेत् चतुरस्रं पुनर्मध्ये तन्मध्ये चतुरस्रकम्
:e ity āgneye mahāpurāṇe yuddhajayārṇave nānābalāni nāma saptaviṃśatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ || chapter {128} :ś atha aṣṭāviṃśatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ koṭacakram īavara uvāca koṭacakraṃ pravakṣyāmi caturasraṃ puraṃ likhet caturasraṃ punarmadhye tanmadhye caturasrakam
Thus, in the Āgneya Mahāpurāṇa, in the Ocean of Victory in Battle, the one hundred twenty-seventh chapter, called The Various Forces. Chapter 128. Now the one hundred twenty-eighth chapter: The Koṭa-diagram. The Lord said: I shall expound the koṭa-diagram. One should draw a square fort, and again a square in the middle, and within that a square.
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AgP 128.2
:प् ६१ नाडीत्रितयचिह्नाढ्यं मेषाद्याः पूर्वदिङ्मुखाः कृत्तिका पूर्वभागे तु अश्लेषाग्नेयगोचरे
:p 61 nāḍītritayacihnāḍhyaṃ meṣādyāḥ pūrvadiṅmukhāḥ kṛttikā pūrvabhāge tu aśleṣāgneyagocare
(It is) furnished with the marks of the three channels (nāḍīs); Aries and the rest face the eastern direction. Kṛttikā is in the eastern part, and Aśleṣā in the southeastern region.
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AgP 128.3
भरणी दक्षिणे देया विशाखां नैरृते न्यसेत् अनुराधां पश्चिमे च श्रवणं वायुगोचरे
bharaṇī dakṣiṇe deyā viśākhāṃ nairṛte nyaset anurādhāṃ paścime ca śravaṇaṃ vāyugocare
Bharaṇī is to be assigned in the south; one should place Viśākhā in the southwest, Anurādhā in the west, and Śravaṇa in the region of the wind (northwest).
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AgP 128.4
धन्बिष्ठाञ्चोत्तरे न्यस्य ऐशान्यां रेवतीं तथा वाह्यनाड्यां स्थितान्येव अष्टौ ह्य् ऋक्षाणि यत्नतः
dhanbiṣṭhāñcottare nyasya aiśānyāṃ revatīṃ tathā vāhyanāḍyāṃ sthitānyeva aṣṭau hy ṛkṣāṇi yatnataḥ
Having placed Dhaniṣṭhā in the north and likewise Revatī in the northeast — these eight asterisms are indeed situated, carefully, in the outer channel.
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AgP 128.5
रोहिणीपुष्यफल्गुण्यः स्वाती ज्येष्ठा क्रमेण तु अभिजिच्छततारा तु अश्विनी मध्यनाडिका
rohiṇīpuṣyaphalguṇyaḥ svātī jyeṣṭhā krameṇa tu abhijicchatatārā tu aśvinī madhyanāḍikā
Rohiṇī, Puṣya, (the) Phalgunī, Svātī, Jyeṣṭhā in order, and Abhijit, Śatatārā (Śatabhiṣā), Aśvinī — (these belong to) the middle channel.
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AgP 128.6
कोटमध्ये तु या नाडी कथयामि प्रयत्नतः मृगश्चाभ्यन्तरे पूर्वं तस्याग्नेये पुनर्वसुः
koṭamadhye tu yā nāḍī kathayāmi prayatnataḥ mṛgaścābhyantare pūrvaṃ tasyāgneye punarvasuḥ
The channel that is in the middle of the koṭa I shall declare carefully: Mṛga (Mṛgaśiras) is inside, in the east; in its southeast is Punarvasu.
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AgP 128.7
उत्तराफल्गुनी याम्ये चित्रा नैरृतसंस्थिता मूलन्तु पश्चिमे न्यस्योत्तराषाढान्तु वायवे
uttarāphalgunī yāmye citrā nairṛtasaṃsthitā mūlantu paścime nyasyottarāṣāḍhāntu vāyave
Uttaraphalgunī is in the south, Citrā is placed in the southwest; Mūla one should place in the west, and Uttarāṣāḍhā in the northwest.
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AgP 128.8
पूर्वभाद्रपदा सौम्ये रेवती ईशगोचरे कोटस्याभ्यन्तरे नाडी ह्य् ऋक्षाष्टकसमन्विता
pūrvabhādrapadā saumye revatī īśagocare koṭasyābhyantare nāḍī hy ṛkṣāṣṭakasamanvitā
Pūrvabhādrapadā in the north, Revatī in the region of Īśa (northeast) — the channel inside the koṭa is thus furnished with a set of eight asterisms.
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AgP 128.9
आर्द्रा हस्ता तथाषाढा चतुष्कञ्चोत्तरात्रिकम् मध्ये स्तम्भचतुष्कन्तु दद्यात् कोटस्य कोटरे
ārdrā hastā tathāṣāḍhā catuṣkañcottarātrikam madhye stambhacatuṣkantu dadyāt koṭasya koṭare
Ārdrā, Hasta, and likewise Āṣāḍhā, a set of four, and the three Uttarā(s) — in the middle one should set a group of four pillars in the hollow of the koṭa.
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AgP 128.10
एवं दुर्गस्य विन्यासं वाह्ये स्थानं दिशाधिपात् आगन्तुको यदा योद्धा ऋक्षवान् स्यात्फलान्वितः
evaṃ durgasya vinyāsaṃ vāhye sthānaṃ diśādhipāt āgantuko yadā yoddhā ṛkṣavān syātphalānvitaḥ
Such is the layout of the fort; the (enemy's) station outside (is determined) from the lord of the direction. When the warrior who comes (as attacker) is possessed of (a favourable) asterism, he will be endowed with success.
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AgP 128.11
कोटमध्ये ग्रहाः सौम्या यदा ऋक्षान्विताः पुनः जयं मध्यस्थितानान्तु भङ्गमागामिनो विदुः
koṭamadhye grahāḥ saumyā yadā ṛkṣānvitāḥ punaḥ jayaṃ madhyasthitānāntu bhaṅgamāgāmino viduḥ
When benefic planets in the middle of the koṭa are again joined with (their) asterisms, they know victory for those stationed in the middle and defeat for the one coming.
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AgP 128.12
प्रवेशभे प्रवेष्टव्यं निर्गमभे च निर्गमेत् भृगुः सौम्यस् तथा भौम ऋक्षान्तं सकलं यदा
praveśabhe praveṣṭavyaṃ nirgamabhe ca nirgamet bhṛguḥ saumyas tathā bhauma ṛkṣāntaṃ sakalaṃ yadā
One should enter at the asterism of entry, and one should go out at the asterism of exit. When Venus, Mercury and also Mars (occupy) the whole extent of the asterism—
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AgP 128.13
तदा भङ्गं विजानीयाज्जयमागन्तुकस्य च :प् ६२ प्रवेशर्क्षचतुष्के तु सङ्ग्रामञ्चारभेद् यदा
tadā bhaṅgaṃ vijānīyājjayamāgantukasya ca :p 62 praveśarkṣacatuṣke tu saṅgrāmañcārabhed yadā
—then one should know (there will be) defeat, and victory for the one coming. But when one begins battle in the four asterisms of entry,
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AgP 128.14
तदा सिद्ध्यति तद्दुर्गं न कुर्यात्तत्र विस्मयम् ॥१४
tadā siddhyati taddurgaṃ na kuryāttatra vismayam //14
then that fort succeeds; one should feel no astonishment at that.
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