Agni Purana — Chapter 91

AgP 91.1

:ए इत्य् आदिमहापुराणे आग्नेये अभिषेकादिकथनं नाम नवतितमो ऽध्यायः ॥ छप्तेर् {९१} :श् अथैकनवतितमो ऽध्यायः विविधमन्त्रादिकथनं ईश्वर उवाच अभिषिक्तः शिवं विष्णुं पूजयेद्भास्करादिकान् शङ्खभेर्यादिनिर्घोषैः स्नापयेत् पञ्चगव्यकैः

:e ity ādimahāpurāṇe āgneye abhiṣekādikathanaṃ nāma navatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ || chapter {91} :ś athaikanavatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ vividhamantrādikathanaṃ īśvara uvāca abhiṣiktaḥ śivaṃ viṣṇuṃ pūjayedbhāskarādikān śaṅkhabheryādinirghoṣaiḥ snāpayet pañcagavyakaiḥ

Thus in the Āgneya, the first great Purāṇa, the ninetieth chapter, called 'The Account of Consecration and So Forth.' || Chapter 91. Now the ninety-first chapter: the account of various mantras. Īśvara said: One who has been consecrated should worship Śiva, Viṣṇu, the Sun and the others; with the sounds of conch, kettledrum and the rest he should bathe (them) with the five products of the cow.

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AgP 91.2

:न् १ स्वयं वीक्ष्येति ग, चिह्नितपुस्तकपाठः :प् २८६ यो देवान्देवलोकं स याति स्वकुलमुद्धरन् वर्षकोटिसहस्रेषु यत् पापं स्मुपार्जितं

:n 1 svayaṃ vīkṣyeti ga, cihnitapustakapāṭhaḥ :p 286 yo devāndevalokaṃ sa yāti svakulamuddharan varṣakoṭisahasreṣu yat pāpaṃ smupārjitaṃ

[Note 1: 'svayaṃ vīkṣya' is the reading of the manuscript marked ga. Page 286] He who (so honours) the gods goes to the world of the gods, delivering his own family. Whatever sin has been accumulated over thousands of crores of years,

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AgP 91.3

घृताभ्यङ्गेन देवानां भस्मीभवति पावके आढकेन घृताद्यैश् च देवान् स्नाप्य सुरो भवेत्

ghṛtābhyaṅgena devānāṃ bhasmībhavati pāvake āḍhakena ghṛtādyaiś ca devān snāpya suro bhavet

is burnt to ashes in the fire by the anointing of the gods with ghee. And having bathed the gods with an āḍhaka-measure of ghee and the rest, one becomes a god.

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AgP 91.4

चन्दनेनानुलिप्याथ गन्धाद्यैः पूजयेत्तथा अल्पायासनं स्तुतिभिस्तुता देवास्तु सर्वदा

candanenānulipyātha gandhādyaiḥ pūjayettathā alpāyāsanaṃ stutibhistutā devāstu sarvadā

Then, having smeared (the image) with sandal, one should likewise worship with perfumes and the rest; with little trouble, the gods, praised with hymns of praise, are (favourable) always.

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AgP 91.5

अतीतानागतज्ञानमन्त्रधीभुक्तिमुक्तिदाः गृहीत्वा प्रश्नसूक्ष्मार्णे हृते द्वाभ्यां शुभाशुभं

atītānāgatajñānamantradhībhuktimuktidāḥ gṛhītvā praśnasūkṣmārṇe hṛte dvābhyāṃ śubhāśubhaṃ

(These mantras) grant knowledge of past and future, mantra-wisdom, enjoyment and release. Having taken the subtle syllables of the question, when they are divided by two, (one knows) good and ill.

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AgP 91.6

त्रिभिर्जीवो मूलधातुश् चतुर्भिर्ब्राह्मणादिधीः यञ्चादौ भूततत्त्वादि शेषे चैवं जपादिकं

tribhirjīvo mūladhātuś caturbhirbrāhmaṇādidhīḥ yañcādau bhūtatattvādi śeṣe caivaṃ japādikaṃ

By three, the life-principle and the root element; by four, the notion of brāhmaṇa and the other (castes); and what comes first is the elements, the tattvas and so on, and in the remainder likewise japa and the rest.

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AgP 91.7

एकत्रिकातित्रिकान्ते पदे द्विपमकान्तके अशुभं मध्यमं मध्येष्विन्द्रस्त्रिषु नृपः शुभः

ekatrikātitrikānte pade dvipamakāntake aśubhaṃ madhyamaṃ madhyeṣvindrastriṣu nṛpaḥ śubhaḥ

In a position (ending) with one triad, or beyond a triad, or ending with two or with ma — it is inauspicious; in the middle ones, middling; in three, Indra, the king, auspicious.

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AgP 91.8

सङ्ख्यावृन्दे जीविताब्दं यमो ऽब्ददशहा ध्रुवं सूर्येभास्येशदुर्गाश्रीविष्णुमन्त्रैर् लिखेत् कजे

saṅkhyāvṛnde jīvitābdaṃ yamo 'bdadaśahā dhruvaṃ sūryebhāsyeśadurgāśrīviṣṇumantrair likhet kaje

In the total of the count, the year of life; Yama is surely the destroyer of the (allotted) years. On a lotus he should write with the mantras of Sūrya, Ibha (Gaṇeśa), the Lord of Speech, Durgā, Śrī and Viṣṇu.

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AgP 91.9

कठिन्या जप्तया स्पृष्टे गोमूत्राकृतिरेखया आरभ्यैकं त्रिकं यावत्त्रिचतुष्कावसानकं

kaṭhinyā japtayā spṛṣṭe gomūtrākṛtirekhayā ārabhyaikaṃ trikaṃ yāvattricatuṣkāvasānakaṃ

With a piece of chalk over which the mantra has been muttered, when (the surface) has been touched, with a line shaped like a stream of cow's urine; beginning with one triad up to that which ends with three fours.

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AgP 91.10

मरुद् व्योम मरुद्वीजैश् चतुःषष्टिपदे तथा अक्षाणां पतनात् स्पर्शाद्विषमादौ शुभादिकं

marud vyoma marudvījaiś catuḥṣaṣṭipade tathā akṣāṇāṃ patanāt sparśādviṣamādau śubhādikaṃ

Wind and ether: with the wind-seed-syllables, likewise in the sixty-four-celled diagram; from the falling of the dice and from the touching, in the odd (cells) and so on, (one determines) the auspicious and the rest.

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AgP 91.11

एकत्रिकादिमारभ्य अन्ते चाष्टत्रिकं तथा ध्वजाद्यायाः समा हीना विषमाः शोभनादिदाः(१)

ekatrikādimārabhya ante cāṣṭatrikaṃ tathā dhvajādyāyāḥ samā hīnā viṣamāḥ śobhanādidāḥ(1)

Beginning from the first triad and at the end the eight triads likewise; the 'gains' beginning with dhvaja, when even, deficient, or odd, yield the auspicious and the rest.

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AgP 91.12

आइपल्लवितैः काद्यैः षोडशस्वरपूर्वगैः आद्यैस्तैः सस्वरैः काद्यैस्त्रिपुरानाममन्त्रकाः

āipallavitaiḥ kādyaiḥ ṣoḍaśasvarapūrvagaiḥ ādyaistaiḥ sasvaraiḥ kādyaistripurānāmamantrakāḥ

With the consonants beginning with ka extended by āi, preceded by the sixteen vowels; with those same consonants beginning with ka together with the vowels, first (of all): these are the name-mantras of Tripurā.

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AgP 91.13

ह्रीं वीजाः प्रणवाद्याःस्पुर् नमो ऽन्ता यत्र पूजने मन्त्रा विंशतिसाहस्राः शतं षष्ठ्यधिकं ततः

hrīṃ vījāḥ praṇavādyāḥspur namo 'ntā yatra pūjane mantrā viṃśatisāhasrāḥ śataṃ ṣaṣṭhyadhikaṃ tataḥ

Those whose seed-syllable is hrīṃ, beginning with the praṇava and ending with namaḥ — in whose worship the mantras are twenty thousand, and thereafter a hundred and sixty more.

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AgP 91.14

:न् १ शोभनादिकाः इति ङ, चिह्नितपुस्तकपाठः :प् २८७ आं ह्रीं मन्त्राः सरस्वत्याश् चण्डिकायास्तथैव च तथा गौर्याश् च दुर्गाया आं श्रीं मन्त्राः श्रियस् तथा

:n 1 śobhanādikāḥ iti ṅa, cihnitapustakapāṭhaḥ :p 287 āṃ hrīṃ mantrāḥ sarasvatyāś caṇḍikāyāstathaiva ca tathā gauryāś ca durgāyā āṃ śrīṃ mantrāḥ śriyas tathā

[Note 1: 'śobhanādikāḥ' is the reading of the manuscript marked ṅa. Page 287] Āṃ hrīṃ are the mantras of Sarasvatī, and just so of Caṇḍikā, and likewise of Gaurī and of Durgā; āṃ śrīṃ are the mantras of Śrī.

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AgP 91.15

तथाक्षौं क्रौं मन्त्राः सूर्यस्य(१) आं हौं मन्त्राःशिवस्य च आं गं मन्त्रा गणेशस्य आं मन्त्राश् च तथा हरेः

tathākṣauṃ krauṃ mantrāḥ sūryasya(1) āṃ hauṃ mantrāḥśivasya ca āṃ gaṃ mantrā gaṇeśasya āṃ mantrāś ca tathā hareḥ

Likewise akṣauṃ krauṃ are the mantras of the Sun; āṃ hauṃ the mantras of Śiva; āṃ gaṃ the mantras of Gaṇeśa; and āṃ likewise (the mantras) of Hari.

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AgP 91.16

शतार्धैकाधिकैः काद्यैस् तथा षोडशभिः खरैः काद्यैस्तैः सस्वरैसाद्यैः कान्तैर् मन्त्रास् तथाखिलाः

śatārdhaikādhikaiḥ kādyais tathā ṣoḍaśabhiḥ kharaiḥ kādyaistaiḥ sasvaraisādyaiḥ kāntair mantrās tathākhilāḥ

With the fifty-one consonants beginning with ka, and likewise with the sixteen vowels, with those consonants beginning with ka together with the vowels, beginning with a and ending with ka — thus are all the mantras.

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AgP 91.17

रवीशदेवीविष्णूनां स्वाब्धिदेवेन्द्रवर्तनात् शतत्रयं षष्ट्यधिकं प्रत्येकं मण्डलं क्रमात् अभिषिक्तो जपेद् ध्यायेच्छिष्यादीन् दीक्षयेद्गुरुः

ravīśadevīviṣṇūnāṃ svābdhidevendravartanāt śatatrayaṃ ṣaṣṭyadhikaṃ pratyekaṃ maṇḍalaṃ kramāt abhiṣikto japed dhyāyecchiṣyādīn dīkṣayedguruḥ

For the Sun, Śiva, the Goddess and Viṣṇu, from the reckoning of self (1), oceans (4), gods (33) and Indra (14), the maṇḍala for each in order is three hundred and sixty. Consecrated, he should recite and meditate; the guru should initiate disciples and the rest.

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