Agni Purana — Chapter 165

AgP 165.1

:ए इत्य् आग्नेये महापुराणे नवग्रहहोमो नाम चतुःषष्ट्यधिकशततमो ऽध्यायः ॥ छप्तेर् {१६५} :श् अथ पञ्चषष्त्यधिकशततमो ऽध्यायः नानाधर्माः अग्निर् उवाच ध्येय आत्मा स्थितो यो ऽसौ हृदये दीपवत् प्रभुः अनन्यविषयं कृत्वा मनो बुद्धिस्मृतीन्द्रियं

:e ity āgneye mahāpurāṇe navagrahahomo nāma catuḥṣaṣṭyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ || chapter {165} :ś atha pañcaṣaṣtyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ nānādharmāḥ agnir uvāca dhyeya ātmā sthito yo 'sau hṛdaye dīpavat prabhuḥ ananyaviṣayaṃ kṛtvā mano buddhismṛtīndriyaṃ

Thus in the Āgneya Mahāpurāṇa the one hundred sixty-fourth chapter, called "The Oblation to the Nine Planets." || Now the one hundred sixty-fifth chapter: the various duties. Agni said: The self is to be meditated upon, that lord who stands in the heart like a lamp, having made the mind, the intellect, the memory and the senses free of any other object.

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AgP 165.2

श्राद्धन्तु ध्यायिने देयं(३) गव्यं दधि घृतं पयः प्रियङ्गवो मसूराश् च वार्ताकुः कोद्रवो न हि

śrāddhantu dhyāyine deyaṃ(3) gavyaṃ dadhi ghṛtaṃ payaḥ priyaṅgavo masūrāś ca vārtākuḥ kodravo na hi

But a śrāddha is to be given to one who meditates: (products) of the cow — curds, ghee, milk; but not priyaṅgu grains, lentils, eggplant, or kodrava grain.

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AgP 165.3

सैंहिकयो यदा सूर्यं ग्रसते पर्वसन्धिषु हस्तिच्छाया तु सा ज्ञेया श्राद्धदानादिके ऽक्ष्या

saiṃhikayo yadā sūryaṃ grasate parvasandhiṣu hasticchāyā tu sā jñeyā śrāddhadānādike 'kṣyā

When the descendant of Siṃhikā (Rāhu) swallows the sun at the junctures of the lunar fortnights, that is to be known as the "elephant's shadow," (an) unfailing (time) for giving śrāddha and the like.

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AgP 165.4

:न् १ सदा दुःस्थ इति ख॥ , छ॥ च २ मनुष्याणामिति ङ॥ ३ व्यापिने देयमिति ङ॥ :प् १५६ पित्रे चैव यदा सोमो हंसे चैव करे स्थिते तिथिर्वैवस्वतो नाम सा छाया कुञ्जरस्य तु

:n 1 sadā duḥstha iti kha.. , cha.. ca 2 manuṣyāṇāmiti ṅa.. 3 vyāpine deyamiti ṅa.. :p 156 pitre caiva yadā somo haṃse caiva kare sthite tithirvaivasvato nāma sā chāyā kuñjarasya tu

And when the moon stands (in the asterism) of the Father (Maghā?) and in Haṃsa and in Kara, the lunar day is named Vaivasvata, and that is the "elephant's shadow."

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AgP 165.5

अग्नौकरणशेषन्तु न दद्याद्वैश्वदेविके अग्न्यभावे तु विप्रस्य हस्ते दद्यात्तु दक्षिणे

agnaukaraṇaśeṣantu na dadyādvaiśvadevike agnyabhāve tu viprasya haste dadyāttu dakṣiṇe

But one should not offer, at the Vaiśvadeva rite, what is left over from the offering into the fire; and in the absence of fire one should place (it) in the right hand of the brahmin.

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AgP 165.6

न स्त्री दुष्यति जारेण न विप्रो वेदकर्मणा बलात्कारोपभुक्ता चेद्वैरिहस्तगतापि वा(१)

na strī duṣyati jāreṇa na vipro vedakarmaṇā balātkāropabhuktā cedvairihastagatāpi vā(1)

A woman is not defiled by a paramour, nor a brahmin by the rites of the Veda, if she has been enjoyed by force, or has fallen into the hands of an enemy.

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AgP 165.7

सन्त्यजेद् दूषितान्नारीमृतुकाले न शुद्ध्यति य आत्मत्र्यतिरेकेण द्वितीयं नात्र पश्यति(२)

santyajed dūṣitānnārīmṛtukāle na śuddhyati ya ātmatryatirekeṇa dvitīyaṃ nātra paśyati(2)

One should abandon a defiled woman; at the time of her menses she is not purified. He who sees here no second apart from his own self—

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AgP 165.8

ब्रह्मभूतः स एवेह योगी चात्मरतो ऽमलः विषयेन्द्रियसंयोगात् केचिद् योगं वदन्ति वै

brahmabhūtaḥ sa eveha yogī cātmarato 'malaḥ viṣayendriyasaṃyogāt kecid yogaṃ vadanti vai

—he alone here is one who has become brahman, a yogin, delighting in the self, stainless. Some indeed call yoga the conjunction of the sense-objects with the senses.

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AgP 165.9

अधर्मो धर्मबुद्ध्या तु गृहीतस्तैर् अपण्डितैः आत्मनो मनसश् चैव संयोगञ्च तथा परे

adharmo dharmabuddhyā tu gṛhītastair apaṇḍitaiḥ ātmano manasaś caiva saṃyogañca tathā pare

But by those unlearned men what is unrighteousness has been taken as righteousness; and others (call yoga) the conjunction of the self with the mind.

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AgP 165.10

वृत्तिहीनं मनः कृत्वा क्षेत्रज्ञं परमात्मनि एकीकृत्य विमुच्येत बन्धाद्योगो ऽयमुत्तमः

vṛttihīnaṃ manaḥ kṛtvā kṣetrajñaṃ paramātmani ekīkṛtya vimucyeta bandhādyogo 'yamuttamaḥ

Having made the mind free of its functionings, and having unified the knower of the field with the supreme Self, one would be released from bondage: this is the highest yoga.

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AgP 165.11

कुटुम्बैः पञ्चभिर्यामः षष्ठस्तत्र महत्तरः देवासुरमनुष्यैर् वा स जेतुं नैव शक्यते(३)

kuṭumbaiḥ pañcabhiryāmaḥ ṣaṣṭhastatra mahattaraḥ devāsuramanuṣyair vā sa jetuṃ naiva śakyate(3)

It is a chariot with five household-members (the senses); the sixth there is the greater one (the mind); it cannot be conquered by gods, demons, or men.

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AgP 165.12

वहिर्मुखानि सर्वाणि कृत्वा चाभिमुखानि वै मनस्येवेन्द्रियग्रामं मनश्चात्मनि योजयेत्

vahirmukhāni sarvāṇi kṛtvā cābhimukhāni vai manasyevendriyagrāmaṃ manaścātmani yojayet

Having turned all the outward-facing (senses) inward-facing, one should join the host of senses in the mind alone, and the mind in the self.

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AgP 165.13

सर्वभावविनिर्मुक्तं क्षेत्रज्ञं ब्रह्मणि न्यसेत् एतज्ज्ञानञ्च ध्यानञ्च शेषो ऽन्यो ग्रन्थविस्तरः(४)

sarvabhāvavinirmuktaṃ kṣetrajñaṃ brahmaṇi nyaset etajjñānañca dhyānañca śeṣo 'nyo granthavistaraḥ(4)

One should place the knower of the field, freed from all states of being, in brahman. This is knowledge and this is meditation; the rest is other, the prolixity of books.

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AgP 165.14

:न् १ चौरहस्तगतापि वेति ख॥ , घ॥ , ञ च २ द्वितीयं नानुपश्यतीति घ॥ , ट॥ च ३ स जेतुं न च शक्यत इति ग॥ , ङ॥ च ४ शेषा ये ग्रन्थविस्तरा इति ङ :प् १५७ यन्नास्ति सर्वलोकस्य तदस्तीति विरुध्यते कथ्यमानं तथान्यस्य हृदये नावतिष्ठते

:n 1 caurahastagatāpi veti kha.. , gha.. , ña ca 2 dvitīyaṃ nānupaśyatīti gha.. , ṭa.. ca 3 sa jetuṃ na ca śakyata iti ga.. , ṅa.. ca 4 śeṣā ye granthavistarā iti ṅa :p 157 yannāsti sarvalokasya tadastīti virudhyate kathyamānaṃ tathānyasya hṛdaye nāvatiṣṭhate

What does not exist for the whole world—to say "that exists" is contradicted; and so, when told, it does not settle in another's heart.

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AgP 165.15

असंवेद्यं हि तद् ब्रह्म(१) कुमारी स्त्रीमुखं यथा अयोगी नैव जानाति जात्यन्धो हि घटं यथा

asaṃvedyaṃ hi tad brahma(1) kumārī strīmukhaṃ yathā ayogī naiva jānāti jātyandho hi ghaṭaṃ yathā

For that brahman cannot be made known, as a virgin (cannot know) the face of a (mature) woman; one who is not a yogin simply does not know it, as one blind from birth does not (know) a pot.

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AgP 165.16

सत्र्यसन्तं द्विजं दृष्ट्वा स्थानाच्चलति भास्करः एष मे मण्डलं भित्त्वा परं ब्रह्माधिगच्छति

satryasantaṃ dvijaṃ dṛṣṭvā sthānāccalati bhāskaraḥ eṣa me maṇḍalaṃ bhittvā paraṃ brahmādhigacchati

Seeing a twice-born man sitting in the sattra rite, the sun moves from his place (thinking): "This one, having pierced my orb, will attain the supreme brahman."

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AgP 165.17

उपवासव्रतञ्चैव स्नानन्तीर्थं फलन्तपः द्विजसम्पादनञ्चैव सम्पन्नन्तस्य तत् फलं

upavāsavratañcaiva snānantīrthaṃ phalantapaḥ dvijasampādanañcaiva sampannantasya tat phalaṃ

The vow of fasting, bathing, the sacred ford, fruit, austerity, and the maintaining of a brahmin—all that bears fruit for him who is accomplished.

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AgP 165.18

एकाक्षरं परं ब्रह्म प्राणायामः परन्तपः सावित्र्यास्तु परं नास्ति पावनं परमं स्मृतः

ekākṣaraṃ paraṃ brahma prāṇāyāmaḥ parantapaḥ sāvitryāstu paraṃ nāsti pāvanaṃ paramaṃ smṛtaḥ

The single syllable is the supreme brahman; breath-control is the highest austerity; there is nothing higher than the Sāvitrī: it is held to be the supreme purifier.

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AgP 165.19

पूर्वं स्त्रियः सुरैर् भुक्ताः सोमगन्धर्ववह्निभिः भुञ्जते मानुषाः पश्चान्नैता दुष्यन्ति केनचित्

pūrvaṃ striyaḥ surair bhuktāḥ somagandharvavahnibhiḥ bhuñjate mānuṣāḥ paścānnaitā duṣyanti kenacit

Formerly women were enjoyed by the gods—by Soma, the Gandharvas, and Fire; men enjoy them afterwards; these are not defiled by anyone.

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AgP 165.20

असवर्णेन यो गर्भः स्त्रीणां योनौ निषिच्यते अशुद्धा तु भवेन्नारी यावत्छल्यं न मुञ्चति

asavarṇena yo garbhaḥ strīṇāṃ yonau niṣicyate aśuddhā tu bhavennārī yāvatchalyaṃ na muñcati

When a fetus by a man of another class is deposited in a woman's womb, the woman remains impure so long as she does not release that dart.

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AgP 165.21

निःसृते तु ततः शल्ये रजसा शुद्ध्यते ततः ध्यानेन सदृशन्नास्ति शोधनं पापकर्मणां

niḥsṛte tu tataḥ śalye rajasā śuddhyate tataḥ dhyānena sadṛśannāsti śodhanaṃ pāpakarmaṇāṃ

But when the dart has come out, she is then purified by her menstrual flow. There is no purification of evil deeds equal to meditation.

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AgP 165.22

श्वपाकेष्वपि भुञ्जानो ध्यानेन हि विशुद्ध्यति आत्मा ध्याता मनो ध्यानं ध्येयो विष्णुः फलं हरिः

śvapākeṣvapi bhuñjāno dhyānena hi viśuddhyati ātmā dhyātā mano dhyānaṃ dhyeyo viṣṇuḥ phalaṃ hariḥ

Even one eating among dog-cookers is purified by meditation. The self is the meditator, the mind is the meditation, Viṣṇu is the object of meditation, and Hari is the fruit.

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AgP 165.23

अक्षयाय यतिः श्राद्धे पङ्क्तिपावनपावनः आरूढो नैष्ठिकन्धर्मं यस्तु प्रच्यवते द्विजः

akṣayāya yatiḥ śrāddhe paṅktipāvanapāvanaḥ ārūḍho naiṣṭhikandharmaṃ yastu pracyavate dvijaḥ

For imperishable (merit) an ascetic at a śrāddha is the purifier of those who purify the row (of diners); but as for the twice-born who, having taken up the naiṣṭhika (perpetual student's) duty, falls away from it—

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AgP 165.24

:न् १ स्वसंवेद्यं हि तद् ब्रह्म इति ग॥ , ङ॥ च । सुसंवेद्यं हि तद् ब्रह्म इति ज॥ , ट॥ च । स्वयं वेद्यं हि तद् ब्रह्म इति घ॥ , ञ॥ च :प् १५८ प्रायश्चित्तं न पश्यामि येन शुद्ध्येत्स आत्महा ये च प्रव्रजिताः पत्न्यां या चैषां वीजसन्ततिः

:n 1 svasaṃvedyaṃ hi tad brahma iti ga.. , ṅa.. ca / susaṃvedyaṃ hi tad brahma iti ja.. , ṭa.. ca / svayaṃ vedyaṃ hi tad brahma iti gha.. , ña.. ca :p 158 prāyaścittaṃ na paśyāmi yena śuddhyetsa ātmahā ye ca pravrajitāḥ patnyāṃ yā caiṣāṃ vījasantatiḥ

[Apparatus: 'svasaṃvedyaṃ hi tad brahma' in mss. ga and ṅa; 'susaṃvedyaṃ hi tad brahma' in ja and ṭa; 'svayaṃ vedyaṃ hi tad brahma' in gha and ña. — p. 158] —I see no expiation by which he might be purified: he is a slayer of himself. And those who, having gone forth (as renouncers), (resort) to a wife, and whatever seed-offspring is theirs (from her)—

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AgP 165.25

विदुरा नाम चण्डाला जायन्ते नात्र संशयः शतिको म्रियते गृध्रः श्वासौ द्वादशिकस् तथा

vidurā nāma caṇḍālā jāyante nātra saṃśayaḥ śatiko mriyate gṛdhraḥ śvāsau dvādaśikas tathā

they are born as caṇḍālas called Vidura—there is no doubt of this. (Such a one) dies as a vulture that lives a hundred (years), and then as a dog for twelve,

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AgP 165.26

भासो विंशतिवर्षाणि सूकरो दशभिस् तथा अपुष्पो विफलो वृक्षो जायते कण्टकावृतः

bhāso viṃśativarṣāṇi sūkaro daśabhis tathā apuṣpo viphalo vṛkṣo jāyate kaṇṭakāvṛtaḥ

as a bhāsa-bird for twenty years, and likewise as a boar for ten; (then) he is born a tree without flowers, without fruit, covered with thorns.

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AgP 165.27

ततो दावाग्निदग्धस्तु स्थाणुर्भवति सानुगः ततो वर्षशतान्यष्टौ द्वे तिष्ठत्यचेतनः

tato dāvāgnidagdhastu sthāṇurbhavati sānugaḥ tato varṣaśatānyaṣṭau dve tiṣṭhatyacetanaḥ

Then, burnt by a forest fire, he becomes a stump together with his followers; thereafter he remains without consciousness for eight hundred and two years.

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AgP 165.28

पूर्णे वर्षसहस्रे तु जायते ब्रह्मराक्षसः प्लवेन लभते मोक्षं कुलस्योत्सादनेन वा

pūrṇe varṣasahasre tu jāyate brahmarākṣasaḥ plavena labhate mokṣaṃ kulasyotsādanena vā

But when a full thousand years are complete he is born as a brahmarākṣasa; he obtains release by a flood, or by the destruction of his family.

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AgP 165.29

योगमेव निषेवेतेत नान्यं मन्त्रमघापहं ॥२९

yogameva niṣeveteta nānyaṃ mantramaghāpahaṃ //29

One should cultivate yoga alone; there is no other formula that removes sin.

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