Agni Purana — Chapter 67

AgP 67.1

:ए इत्य् आदिमहापुराणे आग्नेये समुदायप्रतिष्ठाकथनं नाम षट्षष्टितमो ऽध्यायः ॥ छप्तेर् {६७} :श् अथ सप्तषष्टितमो ऽध्यायः जीर्णोद्धारविधानं भगवानुवाच जीर्णाद्धारविधिं वक्ष्ये भूषितां स्नपयेद्गुरुः(१) अचलां विन्यसेद्गेहे अतिजीर्णां परित्यजेत्

:e ity ādimahāpurāṇe āgneye samudāyapratiṣṭhākathanaṃ nāma ṣaṭṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ || chapter {67} :ś atha saptaṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ jīrṇoddhāravidhānaṃ bhagavānuvāca jīrṇāddhāravidhiṃ vakṣye bhūṣitāṃ snapayedguruḥ(1) acalāṃ vinyasedgehe atijīrṇāṃ parityajet

Thus in the primeval great Purāṇa, the Āgneya, the sixty-sixth chapter, called the account of the collective installation. || Chapter 67. Now the sixty-seventh chapter: the rules for restoring what is worn out. The Blessed One said: I shall declare the rule for restoring the worn out. The teacher should bathe (the image) after it has been adorned. An immovable one he should set up in the house; one too far decayed he should abandon.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AgP 67.2

व्यङ्गां भग्नां च शैलाढ्यां न्यसेदन्यां च पूर्ववत् संहारविधिना तत्र तत्त्वान् संहृत्य देशिकः

vyaṅgāṃ bhagnāṃ ca śailāḍhyāṃ nyasedanyāṃ ca pūrvavat saṃhāravidhinā tatra tattvān saṃhṛtya deśikaḥ

(An image) that is maimed or broken, or made of stone, (should be abandoned), and he should install another as before; the teacher, having withdrawn the principles (tattvas) there by the rite of withdrawal,

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

AgP 67.3

सहस्रं नारसिंहेन हुत्वा तामुद्धरेद् गुरुः दारवीं दारयेद्वह्नौ शैलजां प्रक्षिपेज्जले

sahasraṃ nārasiṃhena hutvā tāmuddhared guruḥ dāravīṃ dārayedvahnau śailajāṃ prakṣipejjale

and having offered a thousand oblations with the Narasiṃha (mantra), the teacher should remove it; a wooden one he should split up in the fire, a stone one he should cast into water,

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AgP 67.4

धातुजां रत्नजां वापि अगाधे वा जले ऽम्बुधौ यानमारोप्य जीर्णाङ्गं छाद्य वस्त्रादिना नयेत्

dhātujāṃ ratnajāṃ vāpi agādhe vā jale 'mbudhau yānamāropya jīrṇāṅgaṃ chādya vastrādinā nayet

and one made of metal or of jewels also (he should cast) into deep water or the ocean; having placed the worn-out body (of the image) on a vehicle and covered it with cloth and the like, he should carry it away.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AgP 67.5

वादित्रैः प्रक्षिपेत्तोये गुरवे दक्षिणां ददेत् यत्प्रमाणा च यद्द्रव्या तन्मानां स्थापयेद्दिने कूपवापीतडागादेर्जीर्णोद्धारे महाफलं

vāditraiḥ prakṣipettoye gurave dakṣiṇāṃ dadet yatpramāṇā ca yaddravyā tanmānāṃ sthāpayeddine kūpavāpītaḍāgāderjīrṇoddhāre mahāphalaṃ

With musical instruments he should cast it into the water, and give a fee to the teacher; of whatever measure and whatever material it was, an image of that measure he should install on that day. In the restoration of a worn-out well, tank, pond and the like there is great fruit.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition