Agni Purana — Chapter 294
AgP 294.1
:ए इत्य् आग्नेये महापुराणे नागलक्षणदिर्नाम त्रिनवत्यधिकद्विशततमो ऽध्यायः छप्तेर् {२९४} :श् अथ चतुर्नवत्यधिकद्विशततमो ऽध्यायः दष्टचिकित्सा अग्निर् उवाच मन्त्रध्यानौषधैर् दष्टचिकित्सां प्रवदामि ते ॐ नमो भगवते नीलकण्ठायेति जपनाद्विषहानिः स्यदौषधं जीवरक्षणं
:e ity āgneye mahāpurāṇe nāgalakṣaṇadirnāma trinavatyadhikadviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ chapter {294} :ś atha caturnavatyadhikadviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ daṣṭacikitsā agnir uvāca mantradhyānauṣadhair daṣṭacikitsāṃ pravadāmi te oṃ namo bhagavate nīlakaṇṭhāyeti japanādviṣahāniḥ syadauṣadhaṃ jīvarakṣaṇaṃ
Thus ends the two hundred ninety-third chapter, called the Marks of Snakes, in the Agni Mahāpurāṇa. Chapter 294: Treatment of the Bitten. Agni said: I shall declare to you the treatment of one who has been bitten, by means of mantras, meditation and drugs. From reciting "Oṃ, homage to the Blessed Nīlakaṇṭha" the poison is destroyed; the drug is the preserving of life.
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AgP 294.2
साज्यं सकृद्रसं पेयं द्विविधं विषमुच्यते जङ्गमं सर्पभूषादि शृङ्ग्यादि स्थावरं विषं
sājyaṃ sakṛdrasaṃ peyaṃ dvividhaṃ viṣamucyate jaṅgamaṃ sarpabhūṣādi śṛṅgyādi sthāvaraṃ viṣaṃ
With ghee, and at once a juice (decoction) is to be drunk. Poison is said to be of two kinds: the moving, such as (that of) snakes, scorpions and the rest, and the stationary poison, such as (that of) śṛṅgī and the rest.
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AgP 294.3
शान्तस्वरान्वितो ब्रह्मा लोहितं तारकं(१) शिवः वियतेर्नाममन्त्रो ऽयं तार्क्षः शब्दमयः स्मृतः
śāntasvarānvito brahmā lohitaṃ tārakaṃ(1) śivaḥ viyaternāmamantro 'yaṃ tārkṣaḥ śabdamayaḥ smṛtaḥ
Brahmā (i.e. the syllable) joined with the calm vowel, the red one, the crossing-syllable (tāraka), Śiva — this is the name-mantra of the sky (viyat), remembered as Tārkṣya's, consisting of sound.
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AgP 294.4
ॐ ज्वल महामते हृदयाय गरुडविरालशिरसे(२) गरुडशिखायै गरुड विषभञ्जन प्रभेदन प्रभेदन वित्रासय वित्रासय विम-[!!!] :न् १ तारकः इति ख॥ २ गरुडविलासशिरसे इति ख॥ :प् ९३ र्दय विमर्दय कवचाय अप्रतिहतशामनं वं हूं फट् अस्त्राय उग्ररूपवारक सर्वभयङ्कर भीषय सर्वं दह दह भस्मीकुरु कुरु स्वाहा नेत्राय सप्तवर्गान्तयुग्माष्टदिग्दलस्वर केशरादिवर्णरुद्धं वह्निराभूतकर्णकं मातृकाम्बुजं कृत्वा हृदिस्थं तन्मन्त्री वामहस्ततले स्मरेत् अङ्गष्ठादौ न्यसेद्वर्णान्वियतेर्भेदिताः कलाः(१)
oṃ jvala mahāmate hṛdayāya garuḍavirālaśirase(2) garuḍaśikhāyai garuḍa viṣabhañjana prabhedana prabhedana vitrāsaya vitrāsaya vima-[!!!] :n 1 tārakaḥ iti kha.. 2 garuḍavilāsaśirase iti kha.. :p 93 rdaya vimardaya kavacāya apratihataśāmanaṃ vaṃ hūṃ phaṭ astrāya ugrarūpavāraka sarvabhayaṅkara bhīṣaya sarvaṃ daha daha bhasmīkuru kuru svāhā netrāya saptavargāntayugmāṣṭadigdalasvara keśarādivarṇaruddhaṃ vahnirābhūtakarṇakaṃ mātṛkāmbujaṃ kṛtvā hṛdisthaṃ tanmantrī vāmahastatale smaret aṅgaṣṭhādau nyasedvarṇānviyaterbheditāḥ kalāḥ(1)
"Oṃ blaze, O great-minded one — to the heart; to Garuḍa of the huge (?) head; to Garuḍa's crest; O Garuḍa, breaker of poison, cleave, cleave, terrify, terrify, crush, crush — to the armour; the unobstructed quelling, vaṃ hūṃ phaṭ — to the weapon; O warder-off of fierce forms, O terror of all, frighten, burn, burn everything, reduce it to ashes, svāhā — to the eye." Having made the lotus of the Mātṛkās, whose petals in the eight directions are the pairs at the ends of the seven classes, with the vowels, and whose filaments and the rest are enclosed by the (remaining) letters, and whose pericarp is fire-coloured (?), the mantra-adept should visualise it placed in the heart, on the palm of his left hand; and on the thumb and the rest he should place the letters, the divided parts (kalās) of the sky.
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AgP 294.5
पीतं वज्रचतुष्कोणं पार्थिवं शक्रदैवतं वृत्तार्धमाप्यपद्मार्धं शुक्लं वरूणदैवतं
pītaṃ vajracatuṣkoṇaṃ pārthivaṃ śakradaivataṃ vṛttārdhamāpyapadmārdhaṃ śuklaṃ varūṇadaivataṃ
Yellow, four-cornered with a thunderbolt (mark), is the earthy (maṇḍala), whose deity is Indra; the half-circle, half a lotus, white, is the watery one, whose deity is Varuṇa.
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AgP 294.6
त्र्यस्त्रं स्वस्तिकयुक्तञ्च तैजसं वह्निदैवतं वृत्तं विन्दुवृतं वायुदैवतं कृष्णमालिनम्
tryastraṃ svastikayuktañca taijasaṃ vahnidaivataṃ vṛttaṃ vinduvṛtaṃ vāyudaivataṃ kṛṣṇamālinam
Triangular and furnished with a svastika is the fiery one, whose deity is Agni; the circle enclosed by a dot (?) has Vāyu for deity and is black-garlanded.
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AgP 294.7
अङ्गुष्ठाद्यङ्गुलीमध्ये पर्यस्तेषु स्ववेश्मसु सुवर्णनागवाहेन वेष्ठितेषु न्यसेत् क्रमात्
aṅguṣṭhādyaṅgulīmadhye paryasteṣu svaveśmasu suvarṇanāgavāhena veṣṭhiteṣu nyaset kramāt
In the middle of the fingers beginning with the thumb, in their own respective abodes when they are arranged around, encircled by a serpent-vehicle of gold, he should place (them) in order.
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AgP 294.8
वियतेश् चतुरो वर्णान् सुमण्डलसमत्विषः अरूपे रवतन्मात्रे(२) आकाशेशिवदेवते
viyateś caturo varṇān sumaṇḍalasamatviṣaḥ arūpe ravatanmātre(2) ākāśeśivadevate
The four letters of the sky (viyat), whose lustre equals that of a fine disc — in the formless, in the tanmātra of sound, in space, whose deity is Śiva —
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AgP 294.9
कनिष्ठामध्यपर्वस्थे न्यसेत्तस्याद्यमक्षरम् नागानामादिवर्णांश् च स्वमण्डलगतान्न्यसेत्
kaniṣṭhāmadhyaparvasthe nyasettasyādyamakṣaram nāgānāmādivarṇāṃś ca svamaṇḍalagatānnyaset
he should place its first syllable on the middle joint of the little finger; and he should place the initial letters of the Nāgas, situated in their own maṇḍalas.
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AgP 294.10
भूतादिवर्णान् विन्यसेदङ्गुष्टाद्यन्तपर्वसु तन्मात्रादिगुणाभ्यर्णानङ्गुलीषु न्यसेद्बुधः
bhūtādivarṇān vinyasedaṅguṣṭādyantaparvasu tanmātrādiguṇābhyarṇānaṅgulīṣu nyasedbudhaḥ
He should place the letters of the elements and the rest on the joints from the thumb onward to the last; and the wise man should place on the fingers those (letters) adjacent to the tanmātras and qualities.
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AgP 294.11
स्पर्शनादेवतार्क्षेण हस्ते हन्याद्विषद्वयं मण्डलादिषु तान् वर्णान् वियतेः कवयो जितान्
sparśanādevatārkṣeṇa haste hanyādviṣadvayaṃ maṇḍalādiṣu tān varṇān viyateḥ kavayo jitān
By touch with the hand (that has become) Tārkṣya's, and by the deity, he would destroy the two poisons; the sages (say that) those letters of the sky, placed in the maṇḍalas and the rest, are conquered.
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AgP 294.12
श्रेष्ठद्व्यङ्गुलिभिर्देहनाभिस्थानेषु पर्वसु :न् १ भेदिकास्तथेति ख॥ २ वरतन्मत्रे इति ख॥ :प् ९४ आजानुतः सुवर्णाभमानाभेस्तुहिनप्रभम्
śreṣṭhadvyaṅgulibhirdehanābhisthāneṣu parvasu :n 1 bhedikāstatheti kha.. 2 varatanmatre iti kha.. :p 94 ājānutaḥ suvarṇābhamānābhestuhinaprabham
With the two best fingers, on the joints at the navel-places of the body — (visualising him as) gold-coloured up from the knees, frost-bright up from the navel,
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AgP 294.13
कुङ्कुमारुणमाकण्ठादाकेशान्तात् सितेतरं ब्रह्माण्डव्यापिनं तार्क्षञ्चन्द्राख्यं नागभूषणम्
kuṅkumāruṇamākaṇṭhādākeśāntāt sitetaraṃ brahmāṇḍavyāpinaṃ tārkṣañcandrākhyaṃ nāgabhūṣaṇam
saffron-red up to the throat, and dark up to the hairline — Tārkṣya pervading the cosmic egg, called the moon, adorned with serpents,
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AgP 294.14
नीलोग्रनाशमात्मानं महापक्षं स्मरेद्बुधः एवन्तात्क्षात्मनो वाक्यान्मन्त्रः स्यान्मन्त्रिणो विषे
nīlogranāśamātmānaṃ mahāpakṣaṃ smaredbudhaḥ evantātkṣātmano vākyānmantraḥ syānmantriṇo viṣe
the destroyer of the fierce black (poison), great-winged — thus the wise man should visualise (him as) himself. Thus, from the utterance of one whose self is Tārkṣya, the mantra of the mantra-adept works upon poison.
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AgP 294.15
सुष्टिस्तार्क्षकरस्यान्तःस्थिताङ्गुष्ठविषापहा तार्क्षं हस्तं समुद्यम्य तत्पञ्चाङ्गुलिचालनात्
suṣṭistārkṣakarasyāntaḥsthitāṅguṣṭhaviṣāpahā tārkṣaṃ hastaṃ samudyamya tatpañcāṅgulicālanāt
A clenching (of the fist) of the Tārkṣya-hand, with the thumb held inside, removes poison; and by raising the Tārkṣya-hand and moving its five fingers,
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AgP 294.16
कुर्याद्विषस्य स्तम्भादींस्तदुक्तमदवीषया आकाशादेष भूवीजः पञ्चार्णाधिपतिर्मनुः
kuryādviṣasya stambhādīṃstaduktamadavīṣayā ākāśādeṣa bhūvījaḥ pañcārṇādhipatirmanuḥ
He should bring about the immobilizing (of the poison) and the rest; that has been stated by (the use of) the seed-syllable given above. From "ether" (comes) this earth-seed, the mantra that is lord of the five syllables.
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AgP 294.17
संस्तम्भयेतिविषतो भाषया स्तम्भ्येद्विषम् व्यत्यस्तभूषया वीजो मन्त्रो ऽयं साधुसाधितः
saṃstambhayetiviṣato bhāṣayā stambhyedviṣam vyatyastabhūṣayā vījo mantro 'yaṃ sādhusādhitaḥ
With the words "saṃstambhaya" (arrest!) directed at the poison, he should arrest the poison by (this) utterance; with the adornment (of syllables) inverted, this seed-mantra is well accomplished.
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AgP 294.18
संप्लवः प्लावय यमः(१) शब्दाद्यः संहरेद्विषं दण्डमुत्थापयेदेष सुजप्ताम्भो ऽभिषेकतः
saṃplavaḥ plāvaya yamaḥ(1) śabdādyaḥ saṃharedviṣaṃ daṇḍamutthāpayedeṣa sujaptāmbho 'bhiṣekataḥ
"saṃplavaḥ, plāvaya" — Yama preceded by the sound (i.e. the syllable) should withdraw the poison; this (mantra) should make the staff (of the victim) rise up, by sprinkling with well-muttered water.
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AgP 294.19
सुजप्तशङ्खभेर्यादिनिस्वनश्रवणेन वा संदहत्येव संयुक्तो भूतेजोव्यत्ययात् स्थितः
sujaptaśaṅkhabheryādinisvanaśravaṇena vā saṃdahatyeva saṃyukto bhūtejovyatyayāt sthitaḥ
Or, by the hearing of the sound of a well-muttered conch, drum and the like, (the mantra), when conjoined, simply burns (the poison) away, standing (thus) through the interchange of earth and fire.
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AgP 294.20
भूवायुव्यत्ययान्मन्त्रो विषं संक्रामयत्यसौ अन्तस्थो निजवेश्मस्थो वीजाग्नीन्दुजलात्मभिः
bhūvāyuvyatyayānmantro viṣaṃ saṃkrāmayatyasau antastho nijaveśmastho vījāgnīndujalātmabhiḥ
Through the interchange of earth and wind that mantra makes the poison pass over; standing within, abiding in its own dwelling, by means of the seeds whose natures are fire, moon and water.
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AgP 294.21
एतत् कर्म नयेन्मन्त्री गरुडाकृतिविग्रहः तार्क्षवर्णगेहस्थस्तज्जपान्नाशयेद्विषम्
etat karma nayenmantrī garuḍākṛtivigrahaḥ tārkṣavarṇagehasthastajjapānnāśayedviṣam
The mantra-practitioner should carry out this rite with his body in the shape of Garuḍa; dwelling in a house of Garuḍa's colour, by muttering that (mantra) he should destroy the poison.
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AgP 294.22
जामुदण्डीदमुदितं स्वधाश्रीवीजलाञ्छितं स्नानपानात्सर्वविषं ज्वरातोगापमृत्युजित्
jāmudaṇḍīdamuditaṃ svadhāśrīvījalāñchitaṃ snānapānātsarvaviṣaṃ jvarātogāpamṛtyujit
This "jāmudaṇḍī" has been declared, marked with the seed-syllables svadhā and śrī; from bathing (in it) and drinking (it), it conquers all poison, fever, affliction and untimely death.
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AgP 294.23
पक्षि पक्षि महापक्षि महापक्षि विधि स्वाहा :न् १ यश इति ञ॥ :प् ९५ पक्षि पक्षि महापक्षि महापक्षि क्षि क्षि स्वाहा
pakṣi pakṣi mahāpakṣi mahāpakṣi vidhi svāhā :n 1 yaśa iti ña.. :p 95 pakṣi pakṣi mahāpakṣi mahāpakṣi kṣi kṣi svāhā
"pakṣi pakṣi mahāpakṣi mahāpakṣi vidhi svāhā" — [variant: yaśa]. "pakṣi pakṣi mahāpakṣi mahāpakṣi kṣi kṣi svāhā."
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AgP 294.24
द्वावेतौ पक्षिराड्मन्त्रौ विषघ्नावभिमन्त्रणात् पक्षिराजाय विध्महे पक्षिदेवाय धीमहि तत्रो गरुड प्रचोदयात् वह्निस्थौ पार्श्वतत्पूर्वौ दन्तश्रीकौ च दण्डिनौ ॥ सकालो लाङ्गली चेति नीलकण्ठाद्यमीरितं वक्षःकण्ठशिखाश्वेतं न्यसेत्स्तम्भे सुसंस्कृतौ
dvāvetau pakṣirāḍmantrau viṣaghnāvabhimantraṇāt pakṣirājāya vidhmahe pakṣidevāya dhīmahi tatro garuḍa pracodayāt vahnisthau pārśvatatpūrvau dantaśrīkau ca daṇḍinau || sakālo lāṅgalī ceti nīlakaṇṭhādyamīritaṃ vakṣaḥkaṇṭhaśikhāśvetaṃ nyasetstambhe susaṃskṛtau
These two are mantras of the king of birds, destroying poison when (a thing is) charmed with them. "pakṣirājāya vidmahe, pakṣidevāya dhīmahi, tan no garuḍaḥ pracodayāt." The two standing in the fire, at the side and in front of that, having teeth and śrī, and bearing staffs — (namely) Kāla and the plough-bearer: thus it is declared, beginning with Nīlakaṇṭha; white at chest, throat and crest. He should install the two, duly consecrated, upon a post.
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AgP 294.25
हर हर हृदयाय नमः कपर्दिने च शिरसे नीलकण्ठाय वै शिखां कालकूटविषभक्षणाय स्वाहा अथ वर्म च कण्ठे नेत्रं कृत्तिवासास्त्रिनेत्रं पूर्वाद्यैर् आननैर् युक्तं श्वेतपीतारुणासितैः अभयं वरदं चापं वासुकिञ्च दधद्भुजैः यस्योपरीतपार्श्वस्थगौरीरुद्रो ऽस्य देवता
hara hara hṛdayāya namaḥ kapardine ca śirase nīlakaṇṭhāya vai śikhāṃ kālakūṭaviṣabhakṣaṇāya svāhā atha varma ca kaṇṭhe netraṃ kṛttivāsāstrinetraṃ pūrvādyair ānanair yuktaṃ śvetapītāruṇāsitaiḥ abhayaṃ varadaṃ cāpaṃ vāsukiñca dadhadbhujaiḥ yasyoparītapārśvasthagaurīrudro 'sya devatā
"hara hara" — homage to the heart; and "kapardine" to the head; "nīlakaṇṭhāya" indeed to the crest; "kālakūṭaviṣabhakṣaṇāya svāhā" — then the armour; and to the throat, the eye. Clad in a hide, three-eyed, having faces (facing) east and so on, white, yellow, red and black; bearing in his arms the gesture of reassurance, the boon-giving gesture, a bow, and (the serpent) Vāsuki — Rudra, at whose side above stands Gaurī, is the deity of this (mantra).
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AgP 294.26
पादजानुगुहानाभिहृत्कण्ठाननमूर्धसु मन्त्रार्णान्न्यस्य करयोरङ्गुष्ठाद्यङ्गुलीषु च
pādajānuguhānābhihṛtkaṇṭhānanamūrdhasu mantrārṇānnyasya karayoraṅguṣṭhādyaṅgulīṣu ca
Having placed the syllables of the mantra on the feet, knees, the hidden part, navel, heart, throat, face and head, and on the fingers of the two hands beginning with the thumb —
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
AgP 294.27
तर्जन्यादितदन्तासु सर्वमङ्गुष्ठयोर् न्यसेत् ध्यात्वैवं संहरेत् क्षिप्रं वद्धया शूलमुद्रया
tarjanyāditadantāsu sarvamaṅguṣṭhayor nyaset dhyātvaivaṃ saṃharet kṣipraṃ vaddhayā śūlamudrayā
— on the index finger and the rest, and on the joints of these; he should place all (the syllables) on the two thumbs. Having meditated thus, he should quickly withdraw (the poison) with the bound trident-mudrā.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
AgP 294.28
कनिष्ठा ज्येष्ठया वद्धा तिश्रो ऽन्याः प्रसृतेर्जवाः विषनाशे वामहस्तमन्यस्मिन् दक्षिणं करं
kaniṣṭhā jyeṣṭhayā vaddhā tiśro 'nyāḥ prasṛterjavāḥ viṣanāśe vāmahastamanyasmin dakṣiṇaṃ karaṃ
The little finger bound by the thumb, the other three extended straight: in destroying poison, (he places) the left hand (thus) and the right hand upon the other.
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AgP 294.29
ॐ नमो भगवते नीलकण्ठाय चिः अमलकण्ठाय चिः सर्वज्ञकण्ठाय चिः क्षिप ॐ स्वाहा अमलनीलकण्ठाय नैकसर्वविषापहाय नमस्ते रुद्रमन्यव इतिसर्मार्जनाद्विषं विनश्यति न सन्देहः कर्णजाप्या उपानहावा :प् ९६ यजेद्रुद्रविधानेन नीलग्रीवं महेश्वरम् विषव्याधिविनाशः स्यात् कृत्वा रुद्रविधानकं
oṃ namo bhagavate nīlakaṇṭhāya ciḥ amalakaṇṭhāya ciḥ sarvajñakaṇṭhāya ciḥ kṣipa oṃ svāhā amalanīlakaṇṭhāya naikasarvaviṣāpahāya namaste rudramanyava itisarmārjanādviṣaṃ vinaśyati na sandehaḥ karṇajāpyā upānahāvā :p 96 yajedrudravidhānena nīlagrīvaṃ maheśvaram viṣavyādhivināśaḥ syāt kṛtvā rudravidhānakaṃ
"oṃ, homage to the Lord Nīlakaṇṭha, ciḥ; to the Spotless-throated, ciḥ; to the All-knowing-throated, ciḥ; kṣipa oṃ svāhā. To the spotless Blue-throated one, remover of every poison and of many kinds, homage to you, O wrath of Rudra." By wiping (the patient) with this, the poison is destroyed, there is no doubt; (the mantra) is to be muttered into the ear, or (applied to) the sandals. One should worship the blue-necked Maheśvara by the Rudra ritual; on performing the Rudra rite, destruction of poison and disease will follow.
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