Agni Purana — Chapter 375
AgP 375.1
:ए इत्य् आग्नेये महापुराणे धारणा नाम चतुःसप्तत्यधिकत्रिशततमो ऽध्यायः ॥ छप्तेर् {३७५} :श् अथ पञ्चसप्तत्यधिकत्रिशततमो ऽध्यायः समाधिः अग्निर् उवाच यदात्ममात्रं निर्भासं स्तिमितोदधिवत् स्थितं चैतन्यरूपवद्ध्यानं तत् समाधिरिहोच्यते
:e ity āgneye mahāpurāṇe dhāraṇā nāma catuḥsaptatyadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ || chapter {375} :ś atha pañcasaptatyadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ samādhiḥ agnir uvāca yadātmamātraṃ nirbhāsaṃ stimitodadhivat sthitaṃ caitanyarūpavaddhyānaṃ tat samādhirihocyate
Thus, in the Āgneya Mahāpurāṇa, the three hundred and seventy-fourth chapter, called "Concentration." || chapter {375} || Now the three hundred and seventy-fifth chapter: Absorption. Agni said: When meditation, consisting of the self alone, without appearance (of anything else), standing still like a windless ocean, is of the nature of pure consciousness — that is here called samādhi (absorption).
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AgP 375.2
ध्यायन्मनः सन्निवेश्य यस्तिष्ठेदचलस्थिरः निर्वातानलवद्योगी समाधिस्थः प्रकीर्तितः
dhyāyanmanaḥ sanniveśya yastiṣṭhedacalasthiraḥ nirvātānalavadyogī samādhisthaḥ prakīrtitaḥ
The yogin who, meditating, having fixed the mind, remains unmoving and steady, like a flame where there is no wind, is declared to be established in absorption.
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AgP 375.3
न शृणोति न चाघ्राति न पश्यति न वम्यति न च स्पर्शं विजानाति न सङ्कल्पयते मनः
na śṛṇoti na cāghrāti na paśyati na vamyati na ca sparśaṃ vijānāti na saṅkalpayate manaḥ
He does not hear, nor smell, nor see, nor vomit, nor does he perceive touch, nor does the mind form intentions.
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AgP 375.4
न चाभिमन्यते किञ्चिन्न च बुध्यति काष्ठवत् एवमीश्वरसंलीनः समाधिस्थः स गीयते
na cābhimanyate kiñcinna ca budhyati kāṣṭhavat evamīśvarasaṃlīnaḥ samādhisthaḥ sa gīyate
He does not conceive of anything, nor is he aware, being like a log; thus, merged in the Lord, he is spoken of as established in absorption.
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AgP 375.5
:प् ३२६ यथा दीपो निवातस्यो नेङ्गते सोपमा स्मृता ध्यायतो विष्णुमात्मानं समाधिस्तस्य योगिनः
:p 326 yathā dīpo nivātasyo neṅgate sopamā smṛtā dhyāyato viṣṇumātmānaṃ samādhistasya yoginaḥ
As a lamp placed where there is no wind does not flicker — that is held to be the simile for the absorption of that yogin who meditates on Viṣṇu as the Self.
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AgP 375.6
उपसर्गाः प्रवर्तन्ते दिव्याः सिद्धिप्रसूचकाः पातितः श्रावणो धातुर्दशनस्वाङ्गवेदनाः
upasargāḥ pravartante divyāḥ siddhiprasūcakāḥ pātitaḥ śrāvaṇo dhāturdaśanasvāṅgavedanāḥ
Divine afflictions arise which portend (the coming of) the powers: the hearing-faculty is struck down, (and there are) pains in the teeth and in one's own limbs.
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AgP 375.7
प्रार्थयन्ति च तं देवा भोगैर् दिव्यैश् च योगिनं नृपाश् च पृथिवीदानैर् धनैश् च सुधनाधिपाः
prārthayanti ca taṃ devā bhogair divyaiś ca yoginaṃ nṛpāś ca pṛthivīdānair dhanaiś ca sudhanādhipāḥ
And the gods entreat that yogin with divine enjoyments, and kings with gifts of land, and the lords of great wealth with riches.
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AgP 375.8
वेदादिसर्वशास्त्रञ्च स्वयमेव प्रवर्तते अभीष्टछन्दोविषयं काव्यञ्चास्य प्रवर्तते
vedādisarvaśāstrañca svayameva pravartate abhīṣṭachandoviṣayaṃ kāvyañcāsya pravartate
And all the sciences beginning with the Vedas come to him of themselves, and poetry, in whatever metre and on whatever subject he wishes, comes forth from him.
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AgP 375.9
रसायनानि दिव्यानि दिव्याश् चौषधयस् तथा समस्तानि च शिल्पानि कलाः सर्वाश् च विन्दति
rasāyanāni divyāni divyāś cauṣadhayas tathā samastāni ca śilpāni kalāḥ sarvāś ca vindati
He obtains divine elixirs and divine healing herbs, and all the crafts and all the arts.
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AgP 375.10
सुरेन्द्रकन्या इत्य् आद्या गुणाश् च प्रतिभादयः तृणवत्तान्त्यजेद् यस्तु तस्य विष्णुः प्रसीदति
surendrakanyā ity ādyā guṇāś ca pratibhādayaḥ tṛṇavattāntyajed yastu tasya viṣṇuḥ prasīdati
The daughters of the king of the gods and the like, and qualities such as (poetic) inspiration — he who abandons them all as (worthless as) straw, to him Viṣṇu is gracious.
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AgP 375.11
अणिमादिगुणैश्वर्यः शिष्ये ज्ञानं प्रकाश्य च भुक्त्वा भोगान् यथेच्छातस्तनुन्त्यक्त्वालयात्ततः
aṇimādiguṇaiśvaryaḥ śiṣye jñānaṃ prakāśya ca bhuktvā bhogān yathecchātastanuntyaktvālayāttataḥ
Possessing the lordly powers of minuteness and the rest, and having revealed the knowledge to a disciple, and having enjoyed enjoyments at will, then, abandoning the body, from (his) abode,
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AgP 375.12
तिष्ठेत् स्वात्मनि विज्ञान आनन्दे ब्रह्मणीश्वरे मलिनो हि यथादर्श आत्मज्ञानाय न क्षमः
tiṣṭhet svātmani vijñāna ānande brahmaṇīśvare malino hi yathādarśa ātmajñānāya na kṣamaḥ
he should abide in his own self, in the Lord, in Brahman, which is consciousness and bliss. For as a mirror, when soiled, is incapable of (showing a reflection), so (is the impure one) incapable of knowledge of the self.
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AgP 375.13
सर्वाश्रयन्निजे देहे देही विन्दति वेदनां योगयुक्तस्तु सर्वेषां योगान्नाप्नोति वेदनां
sarvāśrayannije dehe dehī vindati vedanāṃ yogayuktastu sarveṣāṃ yogānnāpnoti vedanāṃ
Since (the self) is the support of all in its own body, the embodied one experiences pain; but one joined to yoga, through yoga, does not undergo the pain of any (of these things).
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AgP 375.14
आकाशमेकं हि यथा घटादिषु पृथग् भवेत् तथात्मैको ह्य् अनेकेषु जलाधारेष्विवांशुमान्
ākāśamekaṃ hi yathā ghaṭādiṣu pṛthag bhavet tathātmaiko hy anekeṣu jalādhāreṣvivāṃśumān
For just as the one space becomes separate (as it were) in pots and the like, so the one Self (appears) in the many, like the sun in (many) vessels of water.
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AgP 375.15
ब्रह्मखानिलतेजांसि जलभूक्षितिधातवः इमे लोका एष चात्मा तस्माच्च सचराचरं
brahmakhānilatejāṃsi jalabhūkṣitidhātavaḥ ime lokā eṣa cātmā tasmācca sacarācaraṃ
Brahman, space, wind, fire, water, earth, ground — (these) elements are these worlds, and this Self; and from it (comes) all that moves and does not move.
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AgP 375.16
:प् ३२७ गृद्दण्दचक्रसंयोगात् कुम्भकारो यथा घटं करोति तृणमृत्काष्ठैर् गृहं वा गृहकारकः
:p 327 gṛddaṇdacakrasaṃyogāt kumbhakāro yathā ghaṭaṃ karoti tṛṇamṛtkāṣṭhair gṛhaṃ vā gṛhakārakaḥ
As a potter, by the conjunction of clay, stick and wheel, makes a pot, or a house-builder (makes) a house with grass, clay and wood,
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AgP 375.17
करणान्येवमादाय तासु तास्विह योनिषु मृजत्यात्मानमात्मैवं सम्भूय करणानि च
karaṇānyevamādāya tāsu tāsviha yoniṣu mṛjatyātmānamātmaivaṃ sambhūya karaṇāni ca
so, taking up the instruments (of action), the self shapes itself in these and those wombs here, having become one with the instruments.
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AgP 375.18
कर्मणा दोषमोहाभ्यामिच्छयैव स बध्यते ज्ञानाद्विमुच्यते जीवो धर्माद् योगी न रोगभाक्
karmaṇā doṣamohābhyāmicchayaiva sa badhyate jñānādvimucyate jīvo dharmād yogī na rogabhāk
By action, through fault and delusion, and by his own desire, he is bound; the living being is released by knowledge, and by dharma the yogin does not become subject to disease.
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AgP 375.19
वर्त्याधारस्नेहयोगाद् यथा दीपस्य संस्थितिः विक्रियापि च दृष्ट्वैवमकाले प्राणसंक्षयः
vartyādhārasnehayogād yathā dīpasya saṃsthitiḥ vikriyāpi ca dṛṣṭvaivamakāle prāṇasaṃkṣayaḥ
As the continuance of a lamp depends on the conjunction of wick, vessel and oil, and its alteration too is seen (thus), so is the destruction of the breaths before the (proper) time.
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AgP 375.20
अनन्ता रश्मयस्तस्य दीपवद् यः स्थितो हृदि सितासिताः कद्रुनीलाः कपिलाः पीतलोहिताः
anantā raśmayastasya dīpavad yaḥ sthito hṛdi sitāsitāḥ kadrunīlāḥ kapilāḥ pītalohitāḥ
Infinite are the rays of that which stands in the heart like a lamp: white and black, tawny-dark, brown, yellow and red.
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AgP 375.21
ऊर्ध्वमेकः स्थितस्तेषां यो भित्त्वा सूर्यमण्डलं ब्रह्मलोकमतिक्रम्य तेन याति पराङ्गतिं
ūrdhvamekaḥ sthitasteṣāṃ yo bhittvā sūryamaṇḍalaṃ brahmalokamatikramya tena yāti parāṅgatiṃ
One of them stands upward; that (ray), having pierced the orb of the sun and passed beyond the world of Brahmā, by it (one) goes to the supreme goal.
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AgP 375.22
यदस्यान्यद्रश्मिशतमूर्ध्वमेव व्यवस्थितं तेन देवनिकायानि धामानि प्रतिपद्यते
yadasyānyadraśmiśatamūrdhvameva vyavasthitaṃ tena devanikāyāni dhāmāni pratipadyate
That other hundred rays of his which are stationed upward — by that (one) attains the abodes of the companies of the gods.
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AgP 375.23
ये नैकरूपाश्चाधस्ताद्रश्मयो ऽस्य मृदुप्रभाः इह कर्मोपभोगाय तैश् च सञ्चरते हि सः
ye naikarūpāścādhastādraśmayo 'sya mṛduprabhāḥ iha karmopabhogāya taiś ca sañcarate hi saḥ
Those rays of his below, which are of many forms and of mild radiance — by them he moves about here, for the enjoyment of (the fruits of) action.
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AgP 375.24
बुद्धीन्द्रियाणि सर्वाणि मनः कर्मेन्द्रियाणि च अहङ्कारश् च बुद्धिश् च पृथिव्यादीनि चैव हि
buddhīndriyāṇi sarvāṇi manaḥ karmendriyāṇi ca ahaṅkāraś ca buddhiś ca pṛthivyādīni caiva hi
All the organs of cognition, the mind, and the organs of action, and the I-maker (ahaṃkāra) and the intellect, and indeed earth and the rest —
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AgP 375.25
अव्यक्त आत्मा क्षेत्रज्ञः क्षेत्रस्त्यास्य निगद्यते ईश्वरः सर्वभूतस्य सन्नसन् सदसच्च सः
avyakta ātmā kṣetrajñaḥ kṣetrastyāsya nigadyate īśvaraḥ sarvabhūtasya sannasan sadasacca saḥ
The unmanifest is the self, the knower of the field; the field of it is (thus) declared. He is the lord of every being: being, non-being, and both being and non-being.
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AgP 375.26
बुद्धेरुत्पत्तिरव्यक्ता ततो ऽहङ्कारसम्भवः तस्मात् खादीनि जायन्ते एकोत्तरगुणानि तु
buddherutpattiravyaktā tato 'haṅkārasambhavaḥ tasmāt khādīni jāyante ekottaraguṇāni tu
The arising of the intellect is from the unmanifest; from that comes the origin of the I-maker; from that are born ether and the rest, each with one quality more (than the last).
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AgP 375.27
:प् ३२८ शब्दः स्पर्शश् च रूपञ्च रसो गन्धश् च तद्गुणाः यो यस्मिन्नाश्रितश् चैषां स तस्मिन्नेव लीयते
:p 328 śabdaḥ sparśaś ca rūpañca raso gandhaś ca tadguṇāḥ yo yasminnāśritaś caiṣāṃ sa tasminneva līyate
Sound, touch, form, taste and smell are their qualities; and whichever of these rests in whichever, it dissolves into that very one.
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AgP 375.28
सत्त्वं रजस्तमश् चैव गुणास्तस्यैव कीर्तिताः रजस्तमोभ्यामाविष्टश् चक्रवद्भ्राभ्यते हि सः
sattvaṃ rajastamaś caiva guṇāstasyaiva kīrtitāḥ rajastamobhyāmāviṣṭaś cakravadbhrābhyate hi saḥ
Sattva, rajas and tamas are proclaimed to be the qualities of that very (one); pervaded by rajas and tamas, he is whirled about like a wheel.
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AgP 375.29
अनादिरादिमान् यश् च स एव पुरुषः परः लिङ्गेन्द्रियैर् उपग्राह्याः स विकार उदाहृतः
anādirādimān yaś ca sa eva puruṣaḥ paraḥ liṅgendriyair upagrāhyāḥ sa vikāra udāhṛtaḥ
He who is beginningless and yet has a beginning — he alone is the supreme Person; that which is to be apprehended by the marks and the sense-organs is called modification.
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AgP 375.30
यतो देवाः पुराणानि विद्योपनिषदस् तथा श्लोकाः सूत्राणि भाष्याणि यच्चान्यद्माङ्भयं भवेत्
yato devāḥ purāṇāni vidyopaniṣadas tathā ślokāḥ sūtrāṇi bhāṣyāṇi yaccānyadmāṅbhayaṃ bhavet
(He) from whom come the gods, the Purāṇas, knowledge and likewise the Upaniṣads, verses, aphorisms, commentaries, and whatever else there may be made of speech —
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AgP 375.31
पितृयानोपवीथ्याश् च यदगस्त्यस्य चान्तरं तेनाग्निहोत्रिणो यान्ति प्रजाकामा दिवं प्रति
pitṛyānopavīthyāś ca yadagastyasya cāntaraṃ tenāgnihotriṇo yānti prajākāmā divaṃ prati
And the space that lies between the path of the fathers, the Upavīthī, and that of Agastya — by that the offerers of the agnihotra, desiring offspring, go towards heaven.
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AgP 375.32
ये च दानपराः सम्यगष्टाभिश् च गुणैर् युताः अष्टाशीतिसहस्राणि मुनयो गृहमेधिनः
ye ca dānaparāḥ samyagaṣṭābhiś ca guṇair yutāḥ aṣṭāśītisahasrāṇi munayo gṛhamedhinaḥ
And those who are devoted to giving, duly endowed with the eight qualities — eighty-eight thousand sages who are householders,
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AgP 375.33
पुनरावर्तने वीजभूता धर्मप्रवर्तकाः सप्तर्षिनाग्वीथ्याश् च देवलोकं समाश्रिताः
punarāvartane vījabhūtā dharmapravartakāḥ saptarṣināgvīthyāś ca devalokaṃ samāśritāḥ
being seeds for the return (to birth), promoters of dharma, they abide in the world of the gods, (going) by the avenues of the Seven Sages and of the Nāga.
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AgP 375.34
तावन्त एव मुनयः सर्वारम्भविवर्जिताः तपसा ब्रह्मचर्येण सङ्गत्यागेन मेधया
tāvanta eva munayaḥ sarvārambhavivarjitāḥ tapasā brahmacaryeṇa saṅgatyāgena medhayā
Just so many are the sages who are free of all undertakings, (living) by austerity, by chastity, by the abandonment of attachment, by insight,
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AgP 375.35
यत्र यत्रावतिष्ठन्ते यावदाहूतसंप्लवं वेदानुवचनं यज्ञा ब्रह्मचर्यं तपो दमः
yatra yatrāvatiṣṭhante yāvadāhūtasaṃplavaṃ vedānuvacanaṃ yajñā brahmacaryaṃ tapo damaḥ
wherever they may abide, until the dissolution of created things. Recitation of the Veda, sacrifices, chastity, austerity, self-restraint,
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AgP 375.36
श्रद्धोपवासः सत्यत्वमात्मनो ज्ञानहेतवः स त्वाश्रमैर् निदिध्यास्यः समस्तैर् एवमेव तु
śraddhopavāsaḥ satyatvamātmano jñānahetavaḥ sa tvāśramair nididhyāsyaḥ samastair evameva tu
faith, fasting, truthfulness — these are the causes of the knowledge of the self; and he is to be meditated upon in just this way by all the stages of life together.
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AgP 375.37
द्रष्टव्यस्त्वथ मन्तव्यः श्रोतव्यश् च द्विजातिभिः य एवमेनं विन्दन्ति ये चारण्यकमाश्रिताः
draṣṭavyastvatha mantavyaḥ śrotavyaś ca dvijātibhiḥ ya evamenaṃ vindanti ye cāraṇyakamāśritāḥ
Moreover he is to be seen, to be reflected upon and to be heard by the twice-born. Those who find him thus, and those who resort to the Āraṇyaka,
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AgP 375.38
उपासते द्विजाः सत्यं श्रद्धया परया युताः :प् ३२९ क्रमात्ते सम्भवन्त्यर्चिरहः शुक्लं तथोत्तरं
upāsate dvijāḥ satyaṃ śraddhayā parayā yutāḥ :p 329 kramātte sambhavantyarcirahaḥ śuklaṃ tathottaraṃ
the twice-born who worship the truth, endowed with the highest faith — they come in due order to the flame, the day, the bright fortnight, and likewise the northern
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
AgP 375.39
अयनन्देवलोकञ्च सवितारं सविद्युतं ततस्तान् पुरुषो ऽभ्येत्य मानसो ब्रह्मलौकिकान्
ayanandevalokañca savitāraṃ savidyutaṃ tatastān puruṣo 'bhyetya mānaso brahmalaukikān
course, and the world of the gods, the sun together with the lightning; then a Person, mind-made, comes to them who belong to the world of Brahmā,
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
AgP 375.40
करोति पुनरावृत्तिस्तेषामिह न विद्यते यज्ञेन तपसा दानैर् ये हि स्वर्गजितो जनाः
karoti punarāvṛttisteṣāmiha na vidyate yajñena tapasā dānair ye hi svargajito janāḥ
and makes (them his own); for them there is no return here. But those people who have won heaven by sacrifice, austerity and gifts —
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AgP 375.41
धूमं निशां कृष्णपक्षं दक्षिणायनमेव च पितृलोकं चन्द्रमसं नभो वायुं जलं महीं
dhūmaṃ niśāṃ kṛṣṇapakṣaṃ dakṣiṇāyanameva ca pitṛlokaṃ candramasaṃ nabho vāyuṃ jalaṃ mahīṃ
Smoke, night, the dark fortnight, and the southern course (of the sun), the world of the fathers, the moon, the sky, the wind, the water, the earth —
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AgP 375.42
क्रमात्ते सम्भवन्तीह पुनरेव व्रजन्ति च एतद्यो न विजानाति मार्गद्वितयमात्मनः
kramātte sambhavantīha punareva vrajanti ca etadyo na vijānāti mārgadvitayamātmanaḥ
— in (that) order these come into being here, and (thus) they go again (through them). He who does not know this pair of paths of the self,
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AgP 375.43
दन्दशूकः पतङ्गो वा भवेद्कीटो ऽथवा कृमिः हृदये दीपवद्ब्रह्म ध्यानाज्जिवो मृतो भवेत्
dandaśūkaḥ pataṅgo vā bhavedkīṭo 'thavā kṛmiḥ hṛdaye dīpavadbrahma dhyānājjivo mṛto bhavet
(such a one) may become a biting snake, or a moth, or an insect, or a worm. Brahman is in the heart like a lamp; through meditation the living one becomes dead (to the world).
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
AgP 375.44
न्यायागतधनस्तत्त्वज्ञाननिष्ठो ऽतिथिप्रियः श्राद्धकृत्सत्यवादी च गृहस्थो ऽपि विमुच्यते
nyāyāgatadhanastattvajñānaniṣṭho 'tithipriyaḥ śrāddhakṛtsatyavādī ca gṛhastho 'pi vimucyate
(He whose) wealth is gotten by lawful means, who is devoted to knowledge of the truth, who is fond of guests, who performs the śrāddha rites and speaks the truth — even (such) a householder is set free.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition