Agni Purana — Chapter 369
AgP 369.1
:ए इत्य् आग्नेये महापुराणे आत्यन्तिकलयगर्भोत्पत्तिनिरूपणं नामाष्टष्ट्यधिकत्रिशततमो ऽध्यायः छप्तेर् {३६९} :श् अथोनसप्तत्यधिकत्रिशततमो ऽध्यायः शरीरावयवाः अग्निर् उवाच श्रोत्रं त्वक् चक्षुषी जिह्वा घ्राणं धीः खुञ्च भूतगं शब्दस्पर्शरूपरमगन्धाः खादिषु तद्गुणाः
:e ity āgneye mahāpurāṇe ātyantikalayagarbhotpattinirūpaṇaṃ nāmāṣṭaṣṭyadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ chapter {369} :ś athonasaptatyadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ śarīrāvayavāḥ agnir uvāca śrotraṃ tvak cakṣuṣī jihvā ghrāṇaṃ dhīḥ khuñca bhūtagaṃ śabdasparśarūparamagandhāḥ khādiṣu tadguṇāḥ
Thus in the Āgneya Mahāpurāṇa the three hundred and sixty-eighth chapter, called the exposition of the final dissolution and of the origin of the embryo. — Now the three hundred and sixty-ninth chapter: the parts of the body. Agni said: ear, skin, the two eyes, tongue, nose, and the mind (dhī) and the (organs) — these belong to the elements; sound, touch, form, taste and smell are their qualities in ether and the rest.
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AgP 369.2
पायूपस्थौ करौ पादौ वाग्भवेत् कर्मखुन्तथा उत्सर्गानन्दकादानगतिवागादि कर्म तत्
pāyūpasthau karau pādau vāgbhavet karmakhuntathā utsargānandakādānagativāgādi karma tat
Anus and genitals, the two hands, the two feet, and speech — these are likewise the organs of action; excretion, pleasure, grasping, movement, speech and so on are their action.
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AgP 369.3
पञ्चकर्मेन्द्रियान्यत्र पञ्चबुद्धीन्द्रियाणि च इन्द्रियार्थाश् च पञ्चैव महाभूता मनो ऽधिपाः
pañcakarmendriyānyatra pañcabuddhīndriyāṇi ca indriyārthāś ca pañcaiva mahābhūtā mano 'dhipāḥ
Here there are five organs of action and five organs of cognition, and the objects of the senses are just five; the great elements have mind as their lord.
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AgP 369.4
आत्माव्यक्तश् चतुर्विंशतत्त्वानि पुरुषः परः संयुक्तश् च वियुक्तश् च यथा मत्स्योदके उभे
ātmāvyaktaś caturviṃśatattvāni puruṣaḥ paraḥ saṃyuktaś ca viyuktaś ca yathā matsyodake ubhe
The self and the unmanifest — (these with the rest make) the twenty-four principles; the Person is beyond. He is both joined and separate, as fish and water are both.
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AgP 369.5
अव्यक्तमास्रितानीह रजःसत्त्वतमांसि च आन्तरः पुरुषो जीवः स परं ब्रह्म कारणं
avyaktamāsritānīha rajaḥsattvatamāṃsi ca āntaraḥ puruṣo jīvaḥ sa paraṃ brahma kāraṇaṃ
Here (in the body) passion, purity and darkness rest upon the unmanifest; the inner Person is the living soul; he is the supreme brahman, the cause.
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AgP 369.6
स याति परमं स्थानं यो वेत्ति पुरुषं परं सप्ताशयाः स्मृता देहे रुधिरस्यैक आशयः
sa yāti paramaṃ sthānaṃ yo vetti puruṣaṃ paraṃ saptāśayāḥ smṛtā dehe rudhirasyaika āśayaḥ
He who knows the supreme Person goes to the highest state. Seven receptacles are recorded in the body: one is the receptacle of blood,
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AgP 369.7
श्लेष्मणश्चामपित्ताभ्यां पक्वाशयस्तु पञ्चमः :प् ३०६ वायुमूत्राशयः सप्तः स्त्रीणां गर्भाशयो ऽष्टमः
śleṣmaṇaścāmapittābhyāṃ pakvāśayastu pañcamaḥ :p 306 vāyumūtrāśayaḥ saptaḥ strīṇāṃ garbhāśayo 'ṣṭamaḥ
and (one) of phlegm, and (two) for undigested food and bile; the fifth is the receptacle of digested food; the seventh is the receptacle of wind and urine; in women the womb is the eighth.
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AgP 369.8
पित्तात्पक्वाशयो ऽग्नेः स्याद्योनिर्विकशिता द्युतौ पद्मवद्गर्भाशयः स्यात्तत्र घत्ते सरक्तकं
pittātpakvāśayo 'gneḥ syādyonirvikaśitā dyutau padmavadgarbhāśayaḥ syāttatra ghatte saraktakaṃ
From bile arises the receptacle of digested food, belonging to fire; the vagina becomes opened out, and in its radiance the womb is like a lotus; there it holds what is mixed with blood.
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AgP 369.9
शुक्रं स्वशुक्रतश्चाङ्गं कुन्तलान्यत्र कालतः न्यस्तं शुक्रमतो योनौ नेति गर्भाशयं मुने
śukraṃ svaśukrataścāṅgaṃ kuntalānyatra kālataḥ nyastaṃ śukramato yonau neti garbhāśayaṃ mune
Semen, and from one's own semen the body and the hair here in due time; semen deposited in the vagina therefore does not (reach) the womb, O sage.
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AgP 369.10
ऋतावपि च योनिश्चेद्वातपित्तकफावृता भवेत्तदा विकाशित्वं नैव तस्यां प्रजायते
ṛtāvapi ca yoniścedvātapittakaphāvṛtā bhavettadā vikāśitvaṃ naiva tasyāṃ prajāyate
And if, even in the fertile season, the vagina is covered over by wind, bile and phlegm, then no opening out occurs in it.
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AgP 369.11
बुक्कात्पुक्कसकप्लीहकृतकोष्ठाङ्गहृद्व्रणाः तण्डकश् च महाभाग निबद्धान्याशये मतः
bukkātpukkasakaplīhakṛtakoṣṭhāṅgahṛdvraṇāḥ taṇḍakaś ca mahābhāga nibaddhānyāśaye mataḥ
From the kidney (arise) the pukkasa, the spleen, the liver, the cavity, the limbs and the sores of the heart, and the taṇḍaka, O greatly fortunate one: these are held to be bound in the receptacle.
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AgP 369.12
रसस्य पच्यमानस्य साराद्भवति देहिनां प्लीहा यकृच्च धर्मज्ञ रक्तफेणाच्च पुक्कसः
rasasya pacyamānasya sārādbhavati dehināṃ plīhā yakṛcca dharmajña raktapheṇācca pukkasaḥ
From the essence of the chyle as it is being cooked there arise in embodied beings the spleen and the liver, O knower of dharma, and from the froth of the blood the pukkasa.
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AgP 369.13
रक्तं पित्तञ्च भवति तथा तण्डकसंज्ञकः मेदोरक्तप्रसाराच्च वुक्कायाः सम्भवः स्मृतः
raktaṃ pittañca bhavati tathā taṇḍakasaṃjñakaḥ medoraktaprasārācca vukkāyāḥ sambhavaḥ smṛtaḥ
Blood and bile arise, and likewise what is called taṇḍaka; from the spreading of fat and blood the origin of the kidney is recorded.
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AgP 369.14
रक्तमांसप्रसाराच्च भवन्त्यन्त्राणि देहिनां सार्धत्रिव्यामसंख्यानि तानि नॄणां विनिर्दिशेत्
raktamāṃsaprasārācca bhavantyantrāṇi dehināṃ sārdhatrivyāmasaṃkhyāni tāni nṝṇāṃ vinirdiśet
And from the spreading of blood and flesh the intestines of embodied beings arise; in men one should declare them to measure three and a half fathoms.
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AgP 369.15
त्रिव्यामानि तथा स्त्रीणां प्राहुर्वेदविदो जनः रक्तवायुसमायोगात् कामेयस्योद्भवः स्मृतः
trivyāmāni tathā strīṇāṃ prāhurvedavido janaḥ raktavāyusamāyogāt kāmeyasyodbhavaḥ smṛtaḥ
And in women, those who know the Veda say, they are three fathoms; from the conjunction of blood and wind the origin of kāmeya is recorded.
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AgP 369.16
कफप्रसाराद्भवति हृदयं पद्मसन्निभं अधोमुखं तच्छूषिरं यत्र जीवो व्यवस्थितः
kaphaprasārādbhavati hṛdayaṃ padmasannibhaṃ adhomukhaṃ tacchūṣiraṃ yatra jīvo vyavasthitaḥ
From the spreading of phlegm arises the heart, resembling a lotus, facing downward and hollow, in which the living self is established.
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AgP 369.17
चैतन्यानुगता भावःसर्वे तत्र व्यवस्थिताः तस्य वामे तथा प्लीहा दक्षिणे च तथा यकृत्
caitanyānugatā bhāvaḥsarve tatra vyavasthitāḥ tasya vāme tathā plīhā dakṣiṇe ca tathā yakṛt
All the states (of being) that follow upon consciousness are established there; to its left is the spleen, and to the right the liver.
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AgP 369.18
दक्षिणे च तथा क्लोम पद्मस्यैवं प्रकीर्तितं श्रोतांसि यानि देहे ऽस्मिन् कफरक्तवहानि च
dakṣiṇe ca tathā kloma padmasyaivaṃ prakīrtitaṃ śrotāṃsi yāni dehe 'smin kapharaktavahāni ca
And on the right, likewise, the klomon (lung/pancreas): thus is the lotus (of the heart) described; and (there are) the channels in this body which carry phlegm and blood.
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AgP 369.19
:प् ३०७ तेषां भूतानुमानाच्च भवतीन्द्रियसम्भवः नेत्रयोर्मण्डलं शुक्लं कफाद्भवति पैतृकं
:p 307 teṣāṃ bhūtānumānācca bhavatīndriyasambhavaḥ netrayormaṇḍalaṃ śuklaṃ kaphādbhavati paitṛkaṃ
And from these, by inference as to the elements, arises the origin of the sense-organs: the white orb in the two eyes comes from phlegm and is derived from the father.
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AgP 369.20
कृष्णञ्च मण्डलं वातात्तथा मवति मातृकं पित्तात्त्वङ्मण्डलं ज्ञेयं मातापितृसमुद्भवं
kṛṣṇañca maṇḍalaṃ vātāttathā mavati mātṛkaṃ pittāttvaṅmaṇḍalaṃ jñeyaṃ mātāpitṛsamudbhavaṃ
And the black orb (comes) from wind and is thus derived from the mother; from bile the orb of the skin (iris) is to be known, arising from both mother and father.
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AgP 369.21
मांसासृक्कफजा जिह्वा मेदो ऽसृक्कफमांसजौ वृषाणौ दश प्राणस्य ज्ञेयान्यायतनानि तु
māṃsāsṛkkaphajā jihvā medo 'sṛkkaphamāṃsajau vṛṣāṇau daśa prāṇasya jñeyānyāyatanāni tu
The tongue is produced from flesh, blood and phlegm; the two testicles are produced from fat, blood, phlegm and flesh. Ten are to be known as the seats of the vital breath.
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AgP 369.22
मूर्धा हृन्नाभिकण्ठाश् च जिह्वा शुक्रञ्च शोणितं गुदं वस्तिश् च गुल्फञ्च कण्डुराः शोडशेरिताः
mūrdhā hṛnnābhikaṇṭhāś ca jihvā śukrañca śoṇitaṃ gudaṃ vastiś ca gulphañca kaṇḍurāḥ śoḍaśeritāḥ
The head, the heart, the navel and the throat, the tongue, the semen and the blood, the anus and the bladder and the ankle — the itching (parts?) are said to be sixteen.
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AgP 369.23
द्वे करे द्वे च चरणे चतस्रः पृष्ठतो गले देहे पादादिशीर्षान्ते जालानि चैव षोडश
dve kare dve ca caraṇe catasraḥ pṛṣṭhato gale dehe pādādiśīrṣānte jālāni caiva ṣoḍaśa
Two in the hands and two in the feet, four on the back and on the neck, in the body from the feet up to the head — the networks (of vessels) are sixteen.
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AgP 369.24
मांसस्नायुशिरास्थिन्यः चत्वारश् च पृथक् पृथक् मणिबन्धनगुल्फेषु निबद्धानि परस्परं
māṃsasnāyuśirāsthinyaḥ catvāraś ca pṛthak pṛthak maṇibandhanagulpheṣu nibaddhāni parasparaṃ
(They are) of flesh, sinew, vessels and bone, four of each separately, bound to one another at the wrists and the ankles.
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AgP 369.25
षट्कूर्चानि स्मृतानीह हस्तयोः पादयोः पृथक् ग्रीवायाञ्च तथा मेढ्रे कथितानि मनीषिभिः
ṣaṭkūrcāni smṛtānīha hastayoḥ pādayoḥ pṛthak grīvāyāñca tathā meḍhre kathitāni manīṣibhiḥ
Six bundles (kūrcas) are recorded here, separately in the two hands and the two feet, and in the neck and in the penis, as declared by the wise.
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AgP 369.26
पृष्ठवंशस्योपगताश् चतस्रो मांसरज्जवः नवत्यश् च तथा पेश्यस्तासां बन्धनकारिकाः
pṛṣṭhavaṃśasyopagatāś catasro māṃsarajjavaḥ navatyaś ca tathā peśyastāsāṃ bandhanakārikāḥ
Four cords of flesh run along the spinal column, and ninety are the muscle-masses that serve to bind them.
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AgP 369.27
सीरण्यश् च तथा सप्त पञ्च मूर्धानमाश्रिताः एकैका मेढ्रजिह्वास्ता अस्थि षष्टिशतत्रयं
sīraṇyaś ca tathā sapta pañca mūrdhānamāśritāḥ ekaikā meḍhrajihvāstā asthi ṣaṣṭiśatatrayaṃ
And seven sutures (?), five of them resting on the head, one each in the penis and the tongue; the bones are three hundred and sixty.
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AgP 369.28
सूक्ष्मैः सह चतुःषष्ठिर्दशना विंशतिर्नखाः पाणिपादशलाकाश् च तासां स्थानचतुष्टयं
sūkṣmaiḥ saha catuḥṣaṣṭhirdaśanā viṃśatirnakhāḥ pāṇipādaśalākāś ca tāsāṃ sthānacatuṣṭayaṃ
Together with the small ones, the teeth are sixty-four, the nails twenty; and (there are) the small bones of the hands and feet, of which there are four locations.
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AgP 369.29
षष्ट्यङ्गुलीनां द्वे पार्ष्ण्योर्गुल्फेषु च चतुष्टयं चत्वार्यरत्न्योरस्थीनि जङ्घयोस्तद्वदेव तु
ṣaṣṭyaṅgulīnāṃ dve pārṣṇyorgulpheṣu ca catuṣṭayaṃ catvāryaratnyorasthīni jaṅghayostadvadeva tu
Of the fingers and toes (there are) sixty, two in the two heels, and four in the ankles; four bones in the two forearms, and just so in the two shanks.
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AgP 369.30
द्वे द्वे जानुकपोलोरुफलकांशसमुद्भवं :प् ३०८ अक्षस्थानांशकश्रोणिफलके चैवमादिशेत्
dve dve jānukapoloruphalakāṃśasamudbhavaṃ :p 308 akṣasthānāṃśakaśroṇiphalake caivamādiśet
Two each arise in the knee, the cheek, the thigh, the flat bones and the shoulder; and one should so declare for the collarbone-sockets, the shoulder-blade and the hip-plates.
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AgP 369.31
भगास्तोकं तथा पृष्ठे चत्वारिंशच्च पञ्च च ग्रीवायाञ्च तथास्थीनि जत्रुकञ्च तथा हमुः
bhagāstokaṃ tathā pṛṣṭhe catvāriṃśacca pañca ca grīvāyāñca tathāsthīni jatrukañca tathā hamuḥ
The pubic region has few (bones); on the back there are forty-five; and likewise the bones in the neck, and the collarbone, and likewise the jaw.
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AgP 369.32
तन्मूलं द्वेललाटाक्षिगण्डनासाङ्घ्य्रवस्थिताः पर्शुकास्तालुकैः सार्धमर्वुदैश् च द्विसप्ततिः
tanmūlaṃ dvelalāṭākṣigaṇḍanāsāṅghyravasthitāḥ parśukāstālukaiḥ sārdhamarvudaiś ca dvisaptatiḥ
Its root is two; (bones) are situated in the forehead, the eyes, the cheeks, the nose and the ankles(?); the ribs together with the palate-bones and the sockets are seventy-two.
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AgP 369.33
द्वेशङ्खके कपालानि चत्वार्येव शिरस् तथा उरः सप्तदशास्थीनि सन्धीनां द्वे शते दश
dveśaṅkhake kapālāni catvāryeva śiras tathā uraḥ saptadaśāsthīni sandhīnāṃ dve śate daśa
Two in the temples; the skull-plates are just four, and so the head; the chest has seventeen bones; of the joints there are two hundred and ten.
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AgP 369.34
अष्टषष्टिस्तु शाखासु षष्टिश् चैकविवर्जिता अन्तरा वै त्र्यशीतिश् च स्नायोर् नवशतानि च
aṣṭaṣaṣṭistu śākhāsu ṣaṣṭiś caikavivarjitā antarā vai tryaśītiś ca snāyor navaśatāni ca
Sixty-eight of them are in the limbs, fifty-nine (lit. sixty less one) ... and eighty-three within; and of the sinews there are nine hundred.
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AgP 369.35
त्रिंशाधिके द्वे शते तु अन्तराधौ तु सप्ततिः ऊर्ध्वगाः षट्शतान्येव शाखास्तु कथितानि तु
triṃśādhike dve śate tu antarādhau tu saptatiḥ ūrdhvagāḥ ṣaṭśatānyeva śākhāstu kathitāni tu
Two hundred and thirty, and seventy in the inner parts; six hundred indeed run upward, and (the rest) are said to be in the limbs.
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AgP 369.36
पञ्चपेशीशतान्येव(१) चत्वारिंशत्तथोर्ध्वगाः चतुःशतन्तु शाखासु अन्तराधौ च षष्टिका
pañcapeśīśatānyeva(1) catvāriṃśattathordhvagāḥ catuḥśatantu śākhāsu antarādhau ca ṣaṣṭikā
There are five hundred muscle-masses (peśī); forty of them (lie) in the upper (limbs), four hundred in the limbs, and sixty in the trunk between (them).
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AgP 369.37
स्त्रीणाम् चैकाधिका वै स्याद्विंशतिश् चतुरुत्तरा स्तनयोर्दश योनौ च त्रयोदश तथाशये
strīṇām caikādhikā vai syādviṃśatiś caturuttarā stanayordaśa yonau ca trayodaśa tathāśaye
For women there are twenty more, with four in excess (i.e. twenty-four additional): ten in the breasts, thirteen in the womb,
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AgP 369.38
गर्भस्य च चतस्रः स्युः शिराणाञ्च शरीरिणां त्रिंशच्छतसहस्राणि तथान्यानि नवैव तु
garbhasya ca catasraḥ syuḥ śirāṇāñca śarīriṇāṃ triṃśacchatasahasrāṇi tathānyāni navaiva tu
and four belonging to the fetus. And of the veins of embodied beings there are thirty hundred-thousands (three million), and nine more (thousand).
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AgP 369.39
षट्पञ्चाशत्सहस्राणि रसन्देहे वहन्ति ताः केदार इव कुल्याश् च क्लेदलेपादिकञ्च यत्
ṣaṭpañcāśatsahasrāṇi rasandehe vahanti tāḥ kedāra iva kulyāś ca kledalepādikañca yat
Fifty-six thousand of them carry the fluid (rasa) through the body, like channels in a rice-field, and whatever moisture, coating and the like (there is).
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AgP 369.40
द्वासप्ततिस् तथा कोट्यो व्योम्नामिह महामुने मज्जाया मेदसश् चैव वसायाश् च तथा द्विज
dvāsaptatis tathā koṭyo vyomnāmiha mahāmune majjāyā medasaś caiva vasāyāś ca tathā dvija
And seventy-two crores of hollow (channels) are (there) here, O great sage — and (so too) of marrow, of fat, and of grease, O twice-born one.
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AgP 369.41
मूत्रस्य चैव पित्तस्य श्लेष्मणः शकृतस् तथा :न् १ पञ्चपेशीशतान्यत्रेति ख॥ , ञ॥ च :प् ३०९ रक्तस्य सरसस्यात्र क्रमशो ऽञ्जलयो मताः
mūtrasya caiva pittasya śleṣmaṇaḥ śakṛtas tathā :n 1 pañcapeśīśatānyatreti kha.. , ña.. ca :p 309 raktasya sarasasyātra kramaśo 'ñjalayo matāḥ
And of urine, of bile, of phlegm, and of feces likewise, of blood and of the fluid (rasa) — here the handfuls (añjalis) are reckoned in order.
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AgP 369.42
अर्धार्धाभ्यधिकाः सर्वाः पूर्वपूर्वाञ्जलेर्मताः अर्धाञ्जलिश् च शुक्रस्य तदर्धञ्च ततौजसः
ardhārdhābhyadhikāḥ sarvāḥ pūrvapūrvāñjalermatāḥ ardhāñjaliś ca śukrasya tadardhañca tataujasaḥ
All are reckoned as exceeding the preceding handful by a half each time; and (there is) half a handful of semen, and half of that of the vital essence (ojas).
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AgP 369.43
रजसस्तु तथा स्त्रीणाञ्चतस्रः कथिता बुधैः शरीरं मलदोषादि पिण्डं ज्ञात्वात्मनि त्यजेत्(१)
rajasastu tathā strīṇāñcatasraḥ kathitā budhaiḥ śarīraṃ maladoṣādi piṇḍaṃ jñātvātmani tyajet(1)
And of the menstrual blood of women four (handfuls) are declared by the wise. Knowing the body to be a lump (made) of filth, defect and the rest, one should abandon (it) in the self.
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