Agni Purana — Chapter 16

AgP 16.1

:ए इत्य् आदिमहापुराणे आग्नेये महाभारतवर्णनं नाम पञ्चदशो ऽध्यायः छप्तेर् {१६} :श् अथ षोडशो ऽध्यायः बुद्धाद्यवतारकथनम् अग्निर् उवाच वक्ष्ये बुद्धावतारञ्च पठतः शृण्वतोर्थदम् पुरा देवासुरे युद्धे दैत्यैर् देवाः पराजिताः

:e ity ādimahāpurāṇe āgneye mahābhāratavarṇanaṃ nāma pañcadaśo 'dhyāyaḥ chapter {16} :ś atha ṣoḍaśo 'dhyāyaḥ buddhādyavatārakathanam agnir uvāca vakṣye buddhāvatārañca paṭhataḥ śṛṇvatorthadam purā devāsure yuddhe daityair devāḥ parājitāḥ

Thus in the Āgneya, the first great Purāṇa, the fifteenth chapter, called the description of the Mahābhārata. Chapter 16. Now the sixteenth chapter: the telling of the Buddha and the other incarnations. Agni said: I shall declare also the Buddha incarnation, which gives the goal to him who recites and to those who listen. Formerly, in the war of the gods and the asuras, the gods were defeated by the daityas.

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AgP 16.2

रक्ष रक्षेति शरणं वदन्तो जग्मुरीश्वरम् मायमोहस्वरुपोसौ शुद्धोदनसुतो ऽभवत्

rakṣa rakṣeti śaraṇaṃ vadanto jagmurīśvaram māyamohasvaruposau śuddhodanasuto 'bhavat

Saying "protect, protect!" they went for refuge to the Lord. He, in the form of Māyāmoha, became the son of Śuddhodana.

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AgP 16.3

मोहयामास दैत्यांस्तांस्त्याजिता वेदधर्मकम् ते च बौद्धा बभूवुर्हि तेभ्योन्ये वेदवर्जिताः

mohayāmāsa daityāṃstāṃstyājitā vedadharmakam te ca bauddhā babhūvurhi tebhyonye vedavarjitāḥ

He deluded those daityas, who were made to abandon the Vedic law; and they indeed became Buddhists, and others (were made) by them to be without the Veda.

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AgP 16.4

आर्हतः सो ऽभवत् पश्चादार्हतानकरोत् परान् एवं पाषण्डिनो जाता वेदधर्मादिवर्जिताः

ārhataḥ so 'bhavat paścādārhatānakarot parān evaṃ pāṣaṇḍino jātā vedadharmādivarjitāḥ

Afterwards he became an Arhata (Jain) and made others Arhatas; thus heretics arose, devoid of the Vedic law and the rest.

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AgP 16.5

:प् ३९ नरकार्हं कर्म चक्रुर्ग्रहीष्यन्त्यधमादपि सर्वे कलियुगान्ते तु भविष्यन्ति च सङ्कराः

:p 39 narakārhaṃ karma cakrurgrahīṣyantyadhamādapi sarve kaliyugānte tu bhaviṣyanti ca saṅkarāḥ

[p. 39] They performed deeds deserving hell, and they will accept (gifts?) even from the lowest; and at the end of the Kali age all will become mixed (in caste).

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AgP 16.6

दस्यवः शीलहीनाश् च वेदो वाजसनेयकः दश पञ्च च शाखा वै प्रमाणेन भविष्यति

dasyavaḥ śīlahīnāś ca vedo vājasaneyakaḥ daśa pañca ca śākhā vai pramāṇena bhaviṣyati

(There will be) robbers and men without good conduct, and the Veda will be the Vājasaneyaka; and indeed fifteen branches (of it) will be (taken as) authority.

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AgP 16.7

धर्मकञ्चुकसंवीता अधर्मरुचयस् तथा मानुषान् भक्षयिष्यन्ति म्लेच्छाः पार्थिवरूपिणः

dharmakañcukasaṃvītā adharmarucayas tathā mānuṣān bhakṣayiṣyanti mlecchāḥ pārthivarūpiṇaḥ

Cloaked in the garb of dharma, yet delighting in unrighteousness, barbarians in the guise of kings will devour human beings.

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AgP 16.8

कल्की विष्णुयशःपुत्रो याज्ञवल्क्यपुरोहितः उत्सादयिष्यति म्लेच्छान् गृहीतास्त्रः कृतायुधः

kalkī viṣṇuyaśaḥputro yājñavalkyapurohitaḥ utsādayiṣyati mlecchān gṛhītāstraḥ kṛtāyudhaḥ

Kalki, the son of Viṣṇuyaśas, with Yājñavalkya as his priest, taking up his missiles and bearing his weapons, will destroy the barbarians.

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AgP 16.9

स्थापयिष्यति मर्यादां चातुर्वर्ण्ये यथोचिताम् आश्रमेषु च सर्वेषु प्रजाः सद्धर्मवर्त्मनि

sthāpayiṣyati maryādāṃ cāturvarṇye yathocitām āśrameṣu ca sarveṣu prajāḥ saddharmavartmani

He will establish the proper bounds for the four classes and, in all the stages of life, (will establish) the people on the path of the good law.

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AgP 16.10

कल्किरूपं परित्यज्य हरिः स्वर्गं गमिष्यति ततः कृतयुगान्नाम पुरावत् सम्भविष्यति

kalkirūpaṃ parityajya hariḥ svargaṃ gamiṣyati tataḥ kṛtayugānnāma purāvat sambhaviṣyati

Abandoning the form of Kalki, Hari will go to heaven; then the Kṛta age will come to be, as of old, in name (and fact).

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AgP 16.11

वर्नाश्रमाश् च धर्मेषु स्वेषु स्थास्यन्ति सत्तम एवं सर्वेषु कल्पेषु सर्वमन्वन्तरेषु च

varnāśramāś ca dharmeṣu sveṣu sthāsyanti sattama evaṃ sarveṣu kalpeṣu sarvamanvantareṣu ca

And the classes and stages of life will abide in their own duties, O best of the good. Thus (it is) in all the aeons and in all the Manu-periods.

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AgP 16.12

अवतारा असङ्ख्याता अतीतानागतादयः विष्णोर्दशावताराख्यान् यः पठेत् शृणुयान्नरः

avatārā asaṅkhyātā atītānāgatādayaḥ viṣṇordaśāvatārākhyān yaḥ paṭhet śṛṇuyānnaraḥ

The incarnations, past and future and so on, are innumerable. The man who recites or hears (the account) called the ten incarnations of Viṣṇu —

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AgP 16.13

सोवाप्तकामो विमलः सकुलः स्वर्गमाप्नुयात् धर्माधर्मव्यवस्थानमेवं वै कुरुते हरिः अवतीर्णञ्च स गतः सर्गादेः कारणं हरिः

sovāptakāmo vimalaḥ sakulaḥ svargamāpnuyāt dharmādharmavyavasthānamevaṃ vai kurute hariḥ avatīrṇañca sa gataḥ sargādeḥ kāraṇaṃ hariḥ

he, with his desires fulfilled and stainless, would attain heaven along with his family. Thus indeed Hari makes the ordering of right and wrong; and having descended, he has departed — Hari is the cause of creation and the rest.

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