Agni Purana — Chapter 318

AgP 318.1

:ए इत्य् आग्नेये महापुराणे गणपूजा नाम सप्तदशाधिकत्रिशततमो ऽध्यायः छप्तेर् {३१८} :श् अथाष्टादशाधिकत्रिशततमो ऽध्यायः वागीश्वरीपूजा ईश्वर उवाच वागीश्वरीपूजनञ्च प्रवदामि समण्डलम् ऊहकं कालसंयुक्तं मनुं वर्णसमायुतम्(१)

:e ity āgneye mahāpurāṇe gaṇapūjā nāma saptadaśādhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ chapter {318} :ś athāṣṭādaśādhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ vāgīśvarīpūjā īśvara uvāca vāgīśvarīpūjanañca pravadāmi samaṇḍalam ūhakaṃ kālasaṃyuktaṃ manuṃ varṇasamāyutam(1)

Thus, in the great Āgneya Purāṇa, the three hundred seventeenth chapter, called "The Worship of Gaṇa(pati)". Now the three hundred eighteenth chapter: the worship of Vāgīśvarī. The Lord said: I shall now declare the worship of Vāgīśvarī together with its maṇḍala — the mantra, with its substitution (ūhaka), joined with time (kāla) and furnished with syllables.

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AgP 318.2

निषाद ईश्वरं कार्यं मनुना चन्द्रसूर्यवत् अक्षरन्न हि देयं स्यात् ध्यायेत् कुन्देन्दुसन्निभां

niṣāda īśvaraṃ kāryaṃ manunā candrasūryavat akṣaranna hi deyaṃ syāt dhyāyet kundendusannibhāṃ

The Lord (i.e. the seed-syllable) is to be made with the niṣāda (note?), by the mantra, like moon and sun; the syllable should indeed not be given (openly). He should meditate on her as resembling jasmine and the moon,

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AgP 318.3

पञ्चाशद्वर्णमालान्तु मुक्तास्रग्दामभूषिताम् वरदाभयाक्षसूत्रपुस्तकाढ्यां त्रिलोचनां

pañcāśadvarṇamālāntu muktāsragdāmabhūṣitām varadābhayākṣasūtrapustakāḍhyāṃ trilocanāṃ

having a garland of fifty syllables, adorned with strings and wreaths of pearls, endowed with the boon-giving and fear-dispelling (gestures), a rosary and a book, three-eyed.

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AgP 318.4

लक्षं जपेन्मस्तकान्तं स्कन्धान्तं वर्णमालिकां अकारादिक्षकारान्तां विशन्तीं मानवत् स्मरेत्

lakṣaṃ japenmastakāntaṃ skandhāntaṃ varṇamālikāṃ akārādikṣakārāntāṃ viśantīṃ mānavat smaret

He should recite a hundred thousand times; he should call to mind the garland of syllables, from the letter 'a' to the letter 'kṣa', reaching to the head and to the shoulders, entering (him) as if measured out(?).

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AgP 318.5

कुर्याद् गुरुश् च दीक्षार्थं मन्त्रग्राहे तु मण्डलम् सूर्याग्रमिन्दुभक्तन्तु भागाभ्यां कमलं हितं(२)

kuryād guruś ca dīkṣārthaṃ mantragrāhe tu maṇḍalam sūryāgramindubhaktantu bhāgābhyāṃ kamalaṃ hitaṃ(2)

And the teacher should make the maṇḍala for the sake of initiation, at the reception of the mantra: divided into twelve (indu) with the sun (twelve) at the front(?), and with two portions the lotus is fitting.

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AgP 318.6

:न् १ चन्द्रमसायुतमिति ञ॥ २ कृतमिति ख॥ :प् १६१ वीथिका पदिका कर्या पद्मान्यष्टौ चतुष्पदे वीथिका पदिका वाह्ये द्वाराणि द्विपदानि तु

:n 1 candramasāyutamiti ña.. 2 kṛtamiti kha.. :p 161 vīthikā padikā karyā padmānyaṣṭau catuṣpade vīthikā padikā vāhye dvārāṇi dvipadāni tu

[note: variant 'candramasāyutam' in ms. ña; 'kṛtam' in ms. kha; page 161] The pathway (vīthikā) is to be made one part (wide); eight lotuses in a four-part (field); the pathway one part; on the outside the doors are of two parts.

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AgP 318.7

उपद्वाराणित द्वच्च कोणबान्धं द्विपट्टिकम्(१) सिदानि नव पद्मानि कर्णिका कनकप्रभा

upadvārāṇita dvacca koṇabāndhaṃ dvipaṭṭikam(1) sidāni nava padmāni karṇikā kanakaprabhā

The subsidiary doors likewise two, and the corner-joining with two bands; these nine lotuses are settled, the pericarp golden in hue.

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AgP 318.8

केशराणि विचित्राणि कोणान्रक्तेन पूरयेत् व्योमरेखान्तरं कृष्णं द्वाराणीन्द्रेभमानतः

keśarāṇi vicitrāṇi koṇānraktena pūrayet vyomarekhāntaraṃ kṛṣṇaṃ dvārāṇīndrebhamānataḥ

The filaments (are to be made) many-coloured; one should fill in the corners with red; the space between the sky-lines is black; the doors are by the measure of Indra's elephant.

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AgP 318.9

मध्ये सरस्वतीं पद्मे वागीशी पूर्वपद्मके हृल्लेखा चित्रवागीशी गायत्री विश्वरूपया

madhye sarasvatīṃ padme vāgīśī pūrvapadmake hṛllekhā citravāgīśī gāyatrī viśvarūpayā

Sarasvatī (is to be placed) in the middle lotus, Vāgīśī in the eastern lotus, Hṛllekhā, Citravāgīśī, Gāyatrī along with Viśvarūpā,

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AgP 318.10

शाङ्करी मतिर्धृतिश् च पूर्वाद्या ह्रीं स्ववीजकाः ध्येया सरस्वतीवच्च कपिलाज्येन होमकः संस्कृतप्राकृतकविः काव्यशास्त्रादिविद्भवेत्

śāṅkarī matirdhṛtiś ca pūrvādyā hrīṃ svavījakāḥ dhyeyā sarasvatīvacca kapilājyena homakaḥ saṃskṛtaprākṛtakaviḥ kāvyaśāstrādividbhavet

and Śāṅkarī, Mati and Dhṛti, beginning from the east, having hrīṃ as their own seed-syllables. (Each) is to be meditated upon as Sarasvatī is; the oblation is with the ghee of a tawny cow. (Thereby) one becomes a poet in Sanskrit and Prakrit and a knower of poetics, the sciences and the rest.

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