Agni Purana — Chapter 323

AgP 323.1

ॐ ओजसे नेत्रं ॐ प्रस्फुर २ तनुरूप २ चट २ प्रचट २ कट २ वम २ घातय २ हूं फट् अघोरास्त्रम् ॥ :ए इत्य् आग्नेये महापुराणे षडङ्गान्यघोरस्त्राणि नाम द्वाविंशत्यधिकत्रिशततमो ऽध्यायः छप्तेर् {३२३} :श् अथ त्रयोविंशत्यधिकत्रिशततमो ऽध्यायः रुद्रशान्तिः ईश्वर उवाच शिवशान्तिं प्रवक्ष्यामि कल्पाघोरप्रपूर्वकम् सप्तकोट्यधिपो घोरो ब्रह्महत्याद्यघार्दनः(१)

oṃ ojase netraṃ oṃ prasphura 2 tanurūpa 2 caṭa 2 pracaṭa 2 kaṭa 2 vama 2 ghātaya 2 hūṃ phaṭ aghorāstram || :e ity āgneye mahāpurāṇe ṣaḍaṅgānyaghorastrāṇi nāma dvāviṃśatyadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ chapter {323} :ś atha trayoviṃśatyadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ rudraśāntiḥ īśvara uvāca śivaśāntiṃ pravakṣyāmi kalpāghoraprapūrvakam saptakoṭyadhipo ghoro brahmahatyādyaghārdanaḥ(1)

oṃ, to vigour: (this is) the Eye-mantra. oṃ, burst forth, burst forth; O you of slender form, of slender form; crack, crack; crack forth, crack forth; cut, cut; spew, spew; strike down, strike down, hūṃ phaṭ — (this is) the Aghora weapon. Thus in the Āgneya Mahāpurāṇa, the chapter called "The Six Limbs and the Aghora Weapons," the three hundred and twenty-second chapter. [Chapter 323] Now the three hundred and twenty-third chapter: the Appeasement of Rudra. Īśvara said: I shall proclaim the appeasement of Śiva, preceded by the Aghora rite. Terrible, lord of seven crores, destroyer of the sin of brahmin-slaying and the rest, [note 1: 'brahmaharyādimardana' in MS kha; page 174]

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AgP 323.2

उत्तमाधमसिद्धीणामालयो ऽखिलरोगनुत् दिव्यान्तरीक्षभौमानामुत्पातानां विमर्दनः

uttamādhamasiddhīṇāmālayo 'khilaroganut divyāntarīkṣabhaumānāmutpātānāṃ vimardanaḥ

he is the abode of attainments high and low, the remover of every disease, the crusher of portents celestial, atmospheric and terrestrial,

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AgP 323.3

विषग्रहपिशाचानां ग्रसनः सर्वकामकृत् प्रायश्चित्तमघौघार्तौ दौर्भाग्यार्तिविनाशनम्

viṣagrahapiśācānāṃ grasanaḥ sarvakāmakṛt prāyaścittamaghaughārtau daurbhāgyārtivināśanam

the devourer of poisons, seizing-demons and piśācas, the fulfiller of all desires; (this is) the expiation in the affliction of a flood of sins, the destroyer of the affliction of misfortune.

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AgP 323.4

एकवीरन्तु विन्यस्य ध्येयः पञ्चमुखः सदा :न् १ ब्रह्महर्यादिमर्दन इति ख॥ :प् १७४ शान्तिके पौष्टिके शुक्लो रक्तो वश्ये ऽथ पीतकः

ekavīrantu vinyasya dhyeyaḥ pañcamukhaḥ sadā :n 1 brahmaharyādimardana iti kha.. :p 174 śāntike pauṣṭike śuklo rakto vaśye 'tha pītakaḥ

Having installed the Lone Hero, he is always to be meditated on as five-faced: in the rite of appeasement and of increase he is white, red in subjugation, and yellow;

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AgP 323.5

स्तम्भने धूम्र उच्चाटमारणे कृष्णवर्णकः कर्षणः कपिलो मोहे द्वात्रिंशद्वर्णमर्चयेत्

stambhane dhūmra uccāṭamāraṇe kṛṣṇavarṇakaḥ karṣaṇaḥ kapilo mohe dvātriṃśadvarṇamarcayet

in paralysing, smoke-coloured; in eviction and killing, black-coloured; tawny in drawing (someone) near and in bewildering. One should worship the thirty-two-syllabled (mantra).

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AgP 323.6

त्रिंशल्लक्षं जपेन्मन्त्रं होमं कुर्याद्दशांशतः गुग्गुलामृतयुक्तेन सिद्धो ऽसिद्धो ऽथ सर्वकृत्

triṃśallakṣaṃ japenmantraṃ homaṃ kuryāddaśāṃśataḥ guggulāmṛtayuktena siddho 'siddho 'tha sarvakṛt

One should recite the mantra thirty lakh times and perform the oblation to a tenth of that amount; with guggulu mixed with amṛta, (the mantra) though unaccomplished becomes accomplished and effects everything.

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AgP 323.7

अघोरान्नापरो मन्त्रो विद्यते भुक्तिमुक्तिकृत् अब्रह्मचारी ब्रह्मचारी अस्नातः स्नातको भवेत्

aghorānnāparo mantro vidyate bhuktimuktikṛt abrahmacārī brahmacārī asnātaḥ snātako bhavet

There is no other mantra than Aghora that grants enjoyment and liberation: one who is no celibate becomes a celibate, one unbathed becomes a bathed initiate.

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AgP 323.8

अघोरास्त्रमघोरन्तु द्वाविमौ मन्त्रराजकौ जपहोमार्चनाद्युद्धे शत्रुसैन्यं विमर्दयेत्

aghorāstramaghorantu dvāvimau mantrarājakau japahomārcanādyuddhe śatrusainyaṃ vimardayet

The Aghora weapon and Aghora — these two are kings among mantras; by recitation, oblation and worship one crushes the enemy's army in battle.

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AgP 323.9

रुद्रशान्तिं प्रवक्ष्यामि शिवां सर्वार्थसाधनीं पुत्रर्थं ग्रहनाशार्थं विषव्याधिविनष्टये

rudraśāntiṃ pravakṣyāmi śivāṃ sarvārthasādhanīṃ putrarthaṃ grahanāśārthaṃ viṣavyādhivinaṣṭaye

I shall now declare the Rudra-pacification (rite), auspicious, accomplishing every aim — for the sake of a son, for the destruction of (hostile) planets, for the annihilation of poison and disease,

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AgP 323.10

दुर्भिक्षमारीशान्त्यर्थे दुःस्वप्नहरणाय च बलादिराज्यप्राप्त्यर्थं रिपूणां नाशनाय च

durbhikṣamārīśāntyarthe duḥsvapnaharaṇāya ca balādirājyaprāptyarthaṃ ripūṇāṃ nāśanāya ca

for the sake of quelling famine and pestilence, and for removing bad dreams, for the sake of obtaining an army and the like and a kingdom, and for the destruction of enemies,

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AgP 323.11

अकालफलिते वृक्षे सर्वग्रहविमर्दने पूजने तु नमस्कारः स्वाहान्तो हवने तथा

akālaphalite vṛkṣe sarvagrahavimardane pūjane tu namaskāraḥ svāhānto havane tathā

(and) when a tree bears fruit out of season, for the crushing of all (evil) planets. In worship, however, (the mantra) ends with "namaḥ"; in the oblation likewise it ends with "svāhā".

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AgP 323.12

आप्यायने वषट्कारं पुष्टौ वौषन्नियोजयेत् चकारद्वितयस्थाने(१) जातियोगन्तु कारयेत्

āpyāyane vaṣaṭkāraṃ puṣṭau vauṣanniyojayet cakāradvitayasthāne(1) jātiyogantu kārayet

In (a rite of) invigoration one should employ "vaṣaṭ", in (a rite of) increase "vauṣat"; in the place of the two "ca"s one should make the connection with the (proper) class (of ending).

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AgP 323.13

ॐ रुद्राय च ते ॐ वृषभाय नमः अविमुक्ताय असम्भवाय पुरुषाय च पूज्याय ईशानाय पौरुषाय पञ्च चोत्तरे विश्वरूपाय करालाय विकृतरूपाय अविकृतरूपाय विकृतौ(२) चापरे काले अप्सु माया च नैरृते :न् १ दकारद्वितयस्थान इति ञ॥ । उकारद्वितयस्थान इति ट॥ २ नियताविति ञ॥ , ट॥ च :प् १७५ एकापिङ्गलाय श्वेतपिङ्गलाय कृष्णपिङ्गलाय नमः मधुपिङ्गलाय नमः मधुपिङ्गलाय नियतौ अनन्ताय आद्रार्य शुष्काय पयोगणाय । कालतत्त्वे । करालाय विकरालाय द्वौ मायातत्त्वे । सहस्रशीर्षाय सहस्रवक्त्राय सहस्रकरचरणाय सहस्रलिङ्गाय । विद्यातत्त्वे । सहस्राक्षाद्विन्यसेद् दक्षिणे हले । एकजटाय द्विजटाय त्रिजटाय स्वाहा । काराय स्वधाकाराय वषट्काराय वषट्काराय षड्रुद्राय । ईशतत्त्वे तु वह्निपत्रे स्थिता गुह । भूतपतये पशुपतये उमापतये कालाधिपतये । सदाशिवाध्यक्ष्यतत्त्वे षट् पूज्याः पूर्वदले स्थिताः । उमायै कुरूपधारिणि ॐ कुरु २ रुहिणि २ रुद्रोसि देवानां देवदेवविशाख हन २ दह २ पच २ मथ २ तुरु २ अरु २ सुरु २(१) रुद्रशान्तिमनुस्मर कृष्णपिङ्गल अकालपिशाचाधिपतिविश्वेश्वराय नमः । शिवतत्त्वे कर्णिकायां पूज्यौ ह्य् उमामहेश्वरौ । ॐ व्योमव्यापिने व्योमरूपाय सर्वव्यापिने शिवाय अनन्ताय अनाथाय अनाश्रिताय शिवाय । शिवतत्त्वे नव पदानि व्योमव्याप्यभिधास्यहि । शाश्वताय योगपीठसंस्थिताय नित्यं योगिने ध्यानाहाराय नमः । ॐ नमःशिवाय सर्वप्रभवे शिवाय ईशानमूर्धाय तत्पुरुषादिपञ्चवक्त्राय नवपदं पूर्वदले सदाख्ये पूजयेद्गुह । अघोरहृदयाय वमदेवगुह्याय सद्योजातमूर्तये । ॐ नमो नमः । गुह्यातिगुह्याय गोप्त्रे अनिधनाय सर्वयोगाधिकृताय ज्योतीरूपाय अग्निपत्रे हीशतत्त्वे विद्यातत्त्वे द्वे याम्यगे परमेश्वराय चेतनाचेतन व्योमन व्यपिन प्रथम तेजस्तेजः मायातत्त्वे नैरृते कालतत्त्वे :न् १ सूरु २ इति ञ॥ :प् १७६ ।अथ वारुणे । ॐ धृ धृ नाना वां वां अनिधान निधनोद्भव शिव सर्वपरमात्मन् महादेव सद्भावेश्वर महातेज योगाधिपते मुञ्च २ प्रमथ २ ॐ सर्व २ ॐ भव २ ॐ भवोद्भव ।सर्वभूतसुखप्रद वायुपत्रे ऽथ नियतौ पुरुषे चोत्तरेन च सर्वसान्निध्यकर ब्रह्मविष्णुरुद्रपर अनर्चित अस्तुतस्तु च साक्षिन २ तुरु २ पतङ्ग पिङ्ग २ ज्ञान २ शब्द २ सूक्ष्म २ शिव २ सर्वप्रद २ ॐ नमःशिवाय ॐ नमो नमः शिवाय ॐ नमो नमः ईशाने प्राकृते तत्त्वे पूजयेज्जुहुयाज्जपेत् ग्रहरोगादिमायार्तिशमनी सर्वसिद्धिकृत्

oṃ rudrāya ca te oṃ vṛṣabhāya namaḥ avimuktāya asambhavāya puruṣāya ca pūjyāya īśānāya pauruṣāya pañca cottare viśvarūpāya karālāya vikṛtarūpāya avikṛtarūpāya vikṛtau(2) cāpare kāle apsu māyā ca nairṛte :n 1 dakāradvitayasthāna iti ña.. / ukāradvitayasthāna iti ṭa.. 2 niyatāviti ña.. , ṭa.. ca :p 175 ekāpiṅgalāya śvetapiṅgalāya kṛṣṇapiṅgalāya namaḥ madhupiṅgalāya namaḥ madhupiṅgalāya niyatau anantāya ādrārya śuṣkāya payogaṇāya / kālatattve / karālāya vikarālāya dvau māyātattve / sahasraśīrṣāya sahasravaktrāya sahasrakaracaraṇāya sahasraliṅgāya / vidyātattve / sahasrākṣādvinyased dakṣiṇe hale / ekajaṭāya dvijaṭāya trijaṭāya svāhā / kārāya svadhākārāya vaṣaṭkārāya vaṣaṭkārāya ṣaḍrudrāya / īśatattve tu vahnipatre sthitā guha / bhūtapataye paśupataye umāpataye kālādhipataye / sadāśivādhyakṣyatattve ṣaṭ pūjyāḥ pūrvadale sthitāḥ / umāyai kurūpadhāriṇi oṃ kuru 2 ruhiṇi 2 rudrosi devānāṃ devadevaviśākha hana 2 daha 2 paca 2 matha 2 turu 2 aru 2 suru 2(1) rudraśāntimanusmara kṛṣṇapiṅgala akālapiśācādhipativiśveśvarāya namaḥ / śivatattve karṇikāyāṃ pūjyau hy umāmaheśvarau / oṃ vyomavyāpine vyomarūpāya sarvavyāpine śivāya anantāya anāthāya anāśritāya śivāya / śivatattve nava padāni vyomavyāpyabhidhāsyahi / śāśvatāya yogapīṭhasaṃsthitāya nityaṃ yogine dhyānāhārāya namaḥ / oṃ namaḥśivāya sarvaprabhave śivāya īśānamūrdhāya tatpuruṣādipañcavaktrāya navapadaṃ pūrvadale sadākhye pūjayedguha / aghorahṛdayāya vamadevaguhyāya sadyojātamūrtaye / oṃ namo namaḥ / guhyātiguhyāya goptre anidhanāya sarvayogādhikṛtāya jyotīrūpāya agnipatre hīśatattve vidyātattve dve yāmyage parameśvarāya cetanācetana vyomana vyapina prathama tejastejaḥ māyātattve nairṛte kālatattve :n 1 sūru 2 iti ña.. :p 176 .atha vāruṇe / oṃ dhṛ dhṛ nānā vāṃ vāṃ anidhāna nidhanodbhava śiva sarvaparamātman mahādeva sadbhāveśvara mahāteja yogādhipate muñca 2 pramatha 2 oṃ sarva 2 oṃ bhava 2 oṃ bhavodbhava /sarvabhūtasukhaprada vāyupatre 'tha niyatau puruṣe cottarena ca sarvasānnidhyakara brahmaviṣṇurudrapara anarcita astutastu ca sākṣina 2 turu 2 pataṅga piṅga 2 jñāna 2 śabda 2 sūkṣma 2 śiva 2 sarvaprada 2 oṃ namaḥśivāya oṃ namo namaḥ śivāya oṃ namo namaḥ īśāne prākṛte tattve pūjayejjuhuyājjapet graharogādimāyārtiśamanī sarvasiddhikṛt

Oṃ, and to you, to Rudra; oṃ, homage to the Bull (Vṛṣabha); to the Unreleased, to the Unarisen, and to the Puruṣa, to the Worshipful, to Īśāna, to the Manly One — these five in the north. To the One of universal form, to the Terrible, to the One of distorted form, to the One of undistorted form — these others in "vikṛti" (or: in Niyati), in Kāla, in Ap, and Māyā in the southwest. To the Single Tawny One, to the White-Tawny, to the Black-Tawny homage, to the Honey-Tawny homage, to the Honey-Tawny — in Niyati; to the Endless, to the Moist, to the Dry, to the Lord of the milk-troop — in the Kāla-tattva; to the Terrible, to the Very Terrible — the two in the Māyā-tattva; to the Thousand-headed, to the Thousand-faced, to Him of a thousand hands and feet, to the Thousand-liṅga'd — in the Vidyā-tattva; from "Thousand-eyed" onward one should place (them) on the right side. To the One-matted, the Two-matted, the Three-matted, svāhā; to the "kāra", to the "svadhā-kāra", to the "vaṣaṭ-kāra", to the "vaṣaṭ-kāra", to the Six Rudras — these stand, O Guha, in the fire-petal in the Īśa-tattva. To the Lord of beings, to the Lord of cattle, to the Lord of Umā, to the Lord of Kāla — in the Sadāśiva-adhyakṣa tattva; the six worshipful ones stand in the eastern petal. To Umā: O you who bear the form of Ku, oṃ kuru kuru, ruhiṇi ruhiṇi, you are Rudra among the gods, O God of gods, O Viśākha, slay slay, burn burn, cook cook, crush crush, turu turu, aru aru, suru suru, remember the Rudra-pacification, O Black-Tawny One, homage to the Lord of untimely piśācas, the Lord of the universe — in the Śiva-tattva, on the pericarp, Umā and Maheśvara are to be worshipped. Oṃ, to Him who pervades space, to Him whose form is space, to the All-pervading, to Śiva, to the Endless, to the Lordless, to the Unsupported, to Śiva — in the Śiva-tattva; I shall declare the nine words of the "space-pervading" (mantra). To the Eternal, to Him seated on the yoga-seat, to the ever-yogin, to Him whose food is meditation, homage. Oṃ homage to Śiva, to the source of all, to Śiva, to Him whose head is Īśāna, to Him of five faces beginning with Tatpuruṣa — the nine-word (mantra), O Guha, one should worship in the eastern petal in (the tattva) called Sadā(śiva). To Him whose heart is Aghora, to Him whose secret is Vāmadeva, to Him whose form is Sadyojāta, oṃ homage, homage. To the Secret beyond the secret, to the Protector, to the Deathless, to Him who presides over all yoga, to Him whose form is light — in the fire-petal in the Īśa-tattva; two in the Vidyā-tattva in the southern direction. To the Supreme Lord: O conscious and unconscious one, O space-one, O pervading one, O first one, O radiance of radiances — in the Māyā-tattva in the southwest, in the Kāla-tattva. Now in the west: oṃ dhṛ dhṛ nānā vāṃ vāṃ, O deathless one, O one arisen from death, O Śiva, O supreme self of all, O Mahādeva, O Lord of true being, O greatly radiant, O Lord of yoga, release release, crush crush, oṃ all all, oṃ become become, oṃ O source of becoming, O giver of happiness to all beings — in the wind-petal, then in Niyati and in Puruṣa, and in the north: O maker of the presence of all, O one beyond Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Rudra, O unworshipped and unpraised one, O witness, witness, turu turu, O flying one, tawny tawny, knowledge knowledge, sound sound, subtle subtle, Śiva Śiva, giver of all giver of all, oṃ homage to Śiva, oṃ homage, homage to Śiva, oṃ homage, homage — in Īśāna, in the Prākṛta tattva, one should worship, offer oblation, and recite. (This mantra) quells the affliction of planets, disease and illusion, and effects all attainments.

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