Agni Purana — Chapter 154

AgP 154.1

१७च्द् ।। नैष्ठिको ब्रह्मचारी वा देहान्तं निवसेद्गुरौ ॥अप्_१५३।० :ए इत्य् आग्नेये महापुराणे ब्रह्मचर्याश्रमो नाम त्रिपञ्चाशदधिकशततमो ऽध्यायः ॥ छप्तेर् {१५४} :श् अथ चतुःपञ्चाशदधिकशततमो ऽध्यायः विवाहः पुष्कर उवाच विप्रश् चतस्रो विन्देत भार्यास्तिस्रस्तु भूमिपः द्वे च वैश्यो यथाकामं भार्यैकामपि चान्त्यजः

17cd /. naiṣṭhiko brahmacārī vā dehāntaṃ nivasedgurau //ap_153.0 :e ity āgneye mahāpurāṇe brahmacaryāśramo nāma tripañcāśadadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ || chapter {154} :ś atha catuḥpañcāśadadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ vivāhaḥ puṣkara uvāca vipraś catasro vindeta bhāryāstisrastu bhūmipaḥ dve ca vaiśyo yathākāmaṃ bhāryaikāmapi cāntyajaḥ

(153.17cd:) Or as a lifelong celibate he should dwell with the teacher until the end of his body. — Thus (ends) in the Āgneya Mahāpurāṇa the one hundred fifty-third chapter, called 'The Stage of Studentship'. Chapter 154: Now the one hundred fifty-fourth chapter, Marriage. Puṣkara said: A brahmin may take four wives, a king three, a vaiśya two, and one of the lowest class may take even one wife, as he pleases.

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AgP 154.2

धर्मकार्याणि सर्वाणि न कार्याण्यसवर्णया पाणिर्ग्राह्यः सवर्णासु गृह्णीयात् क्सत्रिया शरं

dharmakāryāṇi sarvāṇi na kāryāṇyasavarṇayā pāṇirgrāhyaḥ savarṇāsu gṛhṇīyāt ksatriyā śaraṃ

All religious rites are not to be performed with a wife of a different class. Among wives of the same class the hand is to be taken (in marriage); a kṣatriya woman should hold an arrow.

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AgP 154.3

वैश्या प्रतीदमादद्याद्दशां वै चान्त्यजा तथा सकृत् कन्या प्रदातव्या हरंस्तां चौरदण्डभाक्

vaiśyā pratīdamādadyāddaśāṃ vai cāntyajā tathā sakṛt kanyā pradātavyā haraṃstāṃ cauradaṇḍabhāk

A vaiśya woman should take hold of a goad, and likewise a woman of the lowest class the hem (of the garment). A girl is to be given (in marriage) but once; one who carries her off incurs the penalty for a thief.

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AgP 154.4

अपत्यविक्रयासक्ते निष्कृतिर् न विधीयते कन्यादानं शचीयोगो(१) विवाहो ऽथ चतुर्थिका

apatyavikrayāsakte niṣkṛtir na vidhīyate kanyādānaṃ śacīyogo(1) vivāho 'tha caturthikā

For one addicted to selling his offspring no expiation is prescribed. The giving of the maiden, the union (with her), the wedding, and then the fourth-day rite—

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AgP 154.5

:न् १ सतीयोग इति ख॥ , छ॥ च :प् १२२ विवाहमेतत् कथितं नामकर्मचतुष्टयं नष्टे मृते प्रव्रजिते क्लीवे च पतिते पतौ

:n 1 satīyoga iti kha.. , cha.. ca :p 122 vivāhametat kathitaṃ nāmakarmacatuṣṭayaṃ naṣṭe mṛte pravrajite klīve ca patite patau

(Variant: 'satīyoga' in MSS kha and cha.) — this set of four acts is called 'marriage'. When the husband is lost, dead, has become an ascetic, is impotent, or has fallen (from caste)—

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AgP 154.6

पञ्चस्वापत्सु नारीणां पतिरन्यो विधीयते मृते तु देवरे देयात् तदभावे यथेच्छया

pañcasvāpatsu nārīṇāṃ patiranyo vidhīyate mṛte tu devare deyāt tadabhāve yathecchayā

In five kinds of calamity another husband is prescribed for women; but when (the husband) is dead she should be given to the husband's younger brother, and in his absence, according to (her) wish.

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AgP 154.7

पूर्वात्रितयमाग्नेयं वायव्यं चोत्तरात्रयं रोहिणौ चेति चरणे भगणः शस्यते सदा

pūrvātritayamāgneyaṃ vāyavyaṃ cottarātrayaṃ rohiṇau ceti caraṇe bhagaṇaḥ śasyate sadā

The three Pūrva (asterisms), the Āgneya (Kṛttikā), the Vāyavya (Svātī), the three Uttara, and Rohiṇī — thus, in (the matter of) the quarter (of an asterism), the group of asterisms is always commended.

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AgP 154.8

नैकगोत्रान्तु वरयेन्नैकार्षेयाञ्च भार्गव पितृतः सप्तमादूर्ध्वं मातृतः पञ्चमात्तथा

naikagotrāntu varayennaikārṣeyāñca bhārgava pitṛtaḥ saptamādūrdhvaṃ mātṛtaḥ pañcamāttathā

One should not court a girl of the same gotra, nor one of the same ṛṣi-line, O Bhārgava, (but one) beyond the seventh (degree) on the father's side and likewise beyond the fifth on the mother's.

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AgP 154.9

आहूय दानं ब्राह्मः स्यात् कुलशीलयुताय तु पुरुषांस्तारयेत्तज्जो नित्यं कन्यप्रदानतः

āhūya dānaṃ brāhmaḥ syāt kulaśīlayutāya tu puruṣāṃstārayettajjo nityaṃ kanyapradānataḥ

Giving (a daughter), after inviting (the groom), to one endowed with good family and character — that would be the brāhma (rite); the son born of it always rescues (his) forefathers, by reason of the giving of the maiden.

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AgP 154.10

तथा गोमिथुनादानाद्विवाहस्त्वार्ष उच्यते प्रार्थिता दीयते यस्य प्राजापत्यः स धर्मकृत्

tathā gomithunādānādvivāhastvārṣa ucyate prārthitā dīyate yasya prājāpatyaḥ sa dharmakṛt

Likewise, by the giving of a pair of cattle, the marriage is called ārṣa; (the marriage in which) she is given to him who has asked for her is the prājāpatya — he is a doer of dharma.

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AgP 154.11

शुल्केन चासुरो मन्दो गान्धर्वो वरणान्मिथः राक्षसो युद्धहरणात् पैशाचः कन्यकाच्छलात्

śulkena cāsuro mando gāndharvo varaṇānmithaḥ rākṣaso yuddhaharaṇāt paiśācaḥ kanyakācchalāt

With a bride-price it is the āsura, a base (rite); the gāndharva is from mutual choosing; the rākṣasa from carrying off in battle; the paiśāca from (taking) the maiden by trickery.

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AgP 154.12

वैवाहिके ऽह्नि(१) कुर्वीत कुम्भकारमृदा शुचीं जलाशये तु तां पूज्य वाद्याद्यैः(२) स्त्रीं गृहत्रयेत्

vaivāhike 'hni(1) kurvīta kumbhakāramṛdā śucīṃ jalāśaye tu tāṃ pūjya vādyādyaiḥ(2) strīṃ gṛhatrayet

On the wedding day he should make a pure (vessel) of potter's clay, and having worshipped it at a body of water, he should take the woman home with music and the rest.

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AgP 154.13

प्रशुप्ते केशवे नैव विवाहः कार्य एव हि पोषे चैत्रे कुजदिने रिक्ताविष्टितथो न च

praśupte keśave naiva vivāhaḥ kārya eva hi poṣe caitre kujadine riktāviṣṭitatho na ca

When Keśava is asleep a marriage must certainly not be performed, nor in Pauṣa, nor in Caitra, nor on a Tuesday, nor on the rikta (tithis) or on Viṣṭi.

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AgP 154.14

न शुक्रजीवे ऽस्तमिते न शशाङ्के ग्रहार्दिते अर्कार्कभौमयुक्ते भे व्यतीपातहते न हि

na śukrajīve 'stamite na śaśāṅke grahārdite arkārkabhaumayukte bhe vyatīpātahate na hi

Not when Venus or Jupiter has set, not when the moon is afflicted by planets, not in an asterism joined with the Sun, Saturn, or Mars, and not when (the day) is struck by the vyatīpāta.

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AgP 154.15

सोम्यं पित्र्यञ्च वायव्यं सावित्रं रोहिणी तथा :न् १ वैवाहिकेब्दे इति घ॥ , ङ॥ , ञ॥ , ट॥ च २ वाद्यौघैर् इति ग॥ , घ॥ , ञ॥ च :प् १२३ उत्तरात्रितयं मूलं मैत्रं पौष्णं विवाहभं

somyaṃ pitryañca vāyavyaṃ sāvitraṃ rohiṇī tathā :n 1 vaivāhikebde iti gha.. , ṅa.. , ña.. , ṭa.. ca 2 vādyaughair iti ga.. , gha.. , ña.. ca :p 123 uttarātritayaṃ mūlaṃ maitraṃ pauṣṇaṃ vivāhabhaṃ

Saumya (Mṛgaśiras) and Pitrya (Maghā) and Vāyavya (Svātī), Sāvitra (Hasta), likewise Rohiṇī, the three Uttaras, Mūla, Maitra (Anurādhā), Pauṣṇa (Revatī) — (these are) the marriage asterisms.

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AgP 154.16

मानुषाख्यस् तथा लग्नो मानुषाख्यांशकः शुभः तृतीये च तथा षष्ठे दशमैकादशे ऽष्टमे

mānuṣākhyas tathā lagno mānuṣākhyāṃśakaḥ śubhaḥ tṛtīye ca tathā ṣaṣṭhe daśamaikādaśe 'ṣṭame

Likewise an ascendant called 'human' and a 'human' navāṃśa are auspicious; and in the third, likewise in the sixth, the tenth, the eleventh, the eighth —

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AgP 154.17

अर्कार्किचन्दतनयाः प्रशस्ता न कुजो ऽष्टमः सप्तान्त्याष्टमवर्गेषु शेषाः शस्ता ग्रहोत्तमाः

arkārkicandatanayāḥ praśastā na kujo 'ṣṭamaḥ saptāntyāṣṭamavargeṣu śeṣāḥ śastā grahottamāḥ

the Sun, Saturn, and Mercury are commended; Mars is not (commended) in the eighth. In the seventh, last, and eighth divisions the remaining planets, the best ones, are commended.

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AgP 154.18

तेषामपि तथा मध्यात् षष्ठः शुक्रो न शस्यते वैवाहिके भे कर्तव्या तथैव च चतुर्थिका

teṣāmapi tathā madhyāt ṣaṣṭhaḥ śukro na śasyate vaivāhike bhe kartavyā tathaiva ca caturthikā

And among these too, counting from the middle, the sixth, Venus, is not commended; and in the marriage asterism the fourth-rite (caturthikā) is likewise to be performed.

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AgP 154.19

न दातव्या ग्रहास्तत्र चतुराद्यास्तथैकगाः पर्ववर्जं स्त्रियं गच्छेत् सत्या दत्ता सदा रतिः

na dātavyā grahāstatra caturādyāstathaikagāḥ parvavarjaṃ striyaṃ gacchet satyā dattā sadā ratiḥ

The planets should not be placed there, the fourth and following, and likewise those standing in one (house). Avoiding the parvan days he may approach his wife; the pleasure of one truly given is lasting.

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