Agni Purana — Chapter 28

AgP 28.1

:ए इत्य् आदिमहापुराणे आग्नेये सर्वदीक्षाकथनं नाम सप्तविंशोध्यायः :न् १ पशूनिति घ, चिह्नितपुस्तकपाठः २ तत् पुनरिति ख, ग, घ, ङ, चिह्नितपुस्तकचतुष्टयपाठः :प् ७८ छप्तेर् {२८} :श् अथ अष्टाविंशोध्यायः अभिषेकविधानं नारद उवाच अभिषेकं प्रवक्ष्यामि यथाचार्यस्तु पुत्रकः सिद्धिभाक् साधको येन रोगी रोगाद्विमुच्यते

:e ity ādimahāpurāṇe āgneye sarvadīkṣākathanaṃ nāma saptaviṃśodhyāyaḥ :n 1 paśūniti gha, cihnitapustakapāṭhaḥ 2 tat punariti kha, ga, gha, ṅa, cihnitapustakacatuṣṭayapāṭhaḥ :p 78 chapter {28} :ś atha aṣṭāviṃśodhyāyaḥ abhiṣekavidhānaṃ nārada uvāca abhiṣekaṃ pravakṣyāmi yathācāryastu putrakaḥ siddhibhāk sādhako yena rogī rogādvimucyate

[colophon] Thus, in the first great Purāṇa, the Āgneya, the twenty-seventh chapter, called "The Exposition of All Initiations." [notes:] 1. "paśūn" is the reading of the manuscript marked gha. 2. "tat punar" is the reading of the four manuscripts marked kha, ga, gha, ṅa. [p. 78, chapter 28] Now the twenty-eighth chapter: the ordinance of consecration. Nārada said: I shall declare the consecration by which (one becomes) an ācārya, a putraka, a possessor of powers, a sādhaka, (and) by which a sick man is released from his sickness.

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AgP 28.2

राज्यं राजा सुतं स्त्रीञ्च प्राप्नुयान्मलनाशनं मूर्तिकुम्भान् सुरत्नाढ्यान्मध्यपूर्वादितो न्यसेत्

rājyaṃ rājā sutaṃ strīñca prāpnuyānmalanāśanaṃ mūrtikumbhān suratnāḍhyānmadhyapūrvādito nyaset

A king would obtain kingdom, a son and a wife, (and) the destruction of impurity. He should set down the image-jars, rich with fine jewels, beginning from the middle and the east.

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AgP 28.3

सहस्रावर्तितान् कुर्यादथवा शतवर्तितान् मण्डपे मण्डले विष्णुं प्राच्यैशान्याञ्च पीठिके

sahasrāvartitān kuryādathavā śatavartitān maṇḍape maṇḍale viṣṇuṃ prācyaiśānyāñca pīṭhike

He should make them (the mantras) turned/recited a thousand times, or else turned a hundred times. In the pavilion, in the maṇḍala, (he should install) Viṣṇu, and in the east and northeast upon the pedestal—

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AgP 28.4

निवेश्य शकलीकृत्य पुत्रकं साधकादिकं अभिषेकं समभ्यर्च्य कुर्याद्गीतादिपूर्वकं

niveśya śakalīkṛtya putrakaṃ sādhakādikaṃ abhiṣekaṃ samabhyarcya kuryādgītādipūrvakaṃ

—having installed (him) and performed the division into parts (śakalīkaraṇa), having duly worshipped, he should perform the consecration of the putraka, the sādhaka and the rest, preceded by song and so forth.

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AgP 28.5

दद्याच्च योगपीठादींस्त्वनुग्राह्यास्त्वया नराः गुरुश् च समयान् ब्रूयाद्गुप्तः शिष्योथ सर्वभाक्

dadyācca yogapīṭhādīṃstvanugrāhyāstvayā narāḥ guruś ca samayān brūyādguptaḥ śiṣyotha sarvabhāk

And he should give the yoga-seat and the rest, (saying:) "men are to be favoured by you." And the guru should declare the observances; the disciple, keeping them secret, then partakes of everything.

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