Devi Bhagavata Purana — Skandha 11 — Chapter 8
DB 11 8.1
भूतशुद्धिवर्णनम् श्रीनारायण उवाच भूतशुद्धिप्रकारं च कथयामि महामुने । मूलाधारात्समुत्थाय कुण्डलीं परदेवताम्
bhūtaśuddhivarṇanam śrīnārāyaṇa uvāca bhūtaśuddhiprakāraṃ ca kathayāmi mahāmune | mūlādhārātsamutthāya kuṇḍalīṃ paradevatām
The description of the purification of the elements. Śrī Nārāyaṇa said: And I shall tell (you) the manner of the purification of the elements, great sage: (visualising) the Kuṇḍalī, the supreme goddess, rising up from the mūlādhāra,
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.2
सुषुम्णामार्गमाश्रित्य ब्रह्मरन्ध्रगतां स्मरेत् । जीवं ब्रह्मणि संयोज्य हंसमन्त्रेण साधकः
suṣumṇāmārgamāśritya brahmarandhragatāṃ smaret | jīvaṃ brahmaṇi saṃyojya haṃsamantreṇa sādhakaḥ
the practitioner should, having joined the individual soul to Brahman by the haṃsa mantra, meditate on her as going, along the path of the suṣumṇā, to the brahmarandhra.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.3
पादादिजानुपर्यन्तं चतुष्कोणं सवज्रकम् । लं बीजाख्यं स्वर्णवर्णं स्मरेदवनिमण्डलम्
pādādijānuparyantaṃ catuṣkoṇaṃ savajrakam | laṃ bījākhyaṃ svarṇavarṇaṃ smaredavanimaṇḍalam
From the feet up to the knees he should meditate on the disc of earth, four-cornered, marked with a thunderbolt, having the seed-syllable laṃ, gold in colour.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.4
जान्वाद्यानाभिचन्द्रार्धनिभं पद्मद्वयाङ्कितम् । वं बीजयुक्तं श्वेताभमम्भसो मण्डलं स्मरेत्
jānvādyānābhicandrārdhanibhaṃ padmadvayāṅkitam | vaṃ bījayuktaṃ śvetābhamambhaso maṇḍalaṃ smaret
From the knees up to the navel he should meditate on the disc of water, resembling a half-moon, marked with two lotuses, joined with the seed vaṃ, white in appearance.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.5
नाभेर्हृदयपर्यन्तं त्रिकोणं स्वस्तिकान्वितम् । रं बीजेन युतं रक्तं स्मरेत्पावकमण्डलम्
nābherhṛdayaparyantaṃ trikoṇaṃ svastikānvitam | raṃ bījena yutaṃ raktaṃ smaretpāvakamaṇḍalam
From the navel up to the heart he should meditate on the disc of fire, triangular, furnished with a svastika, joined with the seed raṃ, red.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.6
हृदो भूमध्यपर्यन्तं वृत्तं षड्बिन्दुलाञ्छितम् । यं बीजयुक्तं धूम्राभं नभस्वन्मण्डलं स्मरेत्
hṛdo bhūmadhyaparyantaṃ vṛttaṃ ṣaḍbindulāñchitam | yaṃ bījayuktaṃ dhūmrābhaṃ nabhasvanmaṇḍalaṃ smaret
From the heart up to the middle of the brows he should meditate on the disc of wind, circular, marked with six dots, joined with the seed yaṃ, smoke-coloured.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.7
आब्रह्मरन्ध्रं भ्रूमध्याद्वृत्तं स्वच्छं मनोहरम् । हं बीजयुक्तमाकाशमण्डलं च विचिन्तयेत्
ābrahmarandhraṃ bhrūmadhyādvṛttaṃ svacchaṃ manoharam | haṃ bījayuktamākāśamaṇḍalaṃ ca vicintayet
From the middle of the brows up to the brahmarandhra he should contemplate the disc of ether, circular, transparent, lovely, joined with the seed haṃ.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.8
एवं भूतानि सञ्चिन्त्य प्रत्येकं संविलापयेत् । भुवं जले जलं वह्नौ वह्निं वायौ नभस्यमुम् संहितायां एकादशस्कन्धे भूतशुद्धिवर्णनं नामाष्टमोऽध्यायः
evaṃ bhūtāni sañcintya pratyekaṃ saṃvilāpayet | bhuvaṃ jale jalaṃ vahnau vahniṃ vāyau nabhasyamum saṃhitāyāṃ ekādaśaskandhe bhūtaśuddhivarṇanaṃ nāmāṣṭamo'dhyāyaḥ
Having thus contemplated the elements, he should dissolve each one: earth in water, water in fire, fire in wind, and that in ether. — In the Saṃhitā, in the eleventh book, the eighth chapter, called the description of the purification of the elements.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.9
विलाप्य खमहङ्कारे महत्तत्त्वेऽप्यहङ्कृतिम् । महान्तं प्रकृतौ मायामात्मनि प्रविलापयेत्
vilāpya khamahaṅkāre mahattattve'pyahaṅkṛtim | mahāntaṃ prakṛtau māyāmātmani pravilāpayet
Having dissolved space in the ego-principle, and the ego in the great principle (mahat), (and) mahat in primordial nature (prakṛti), he should dissolve māyā into the Self.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.10
शुद्धसंविन्मयो भूत्वा चिन्तयेत्पापपूरुषम् । वामकुक्षिस्थितं कृष्णमङ्गुष्ठपरिमाणकम्
śuddhasaṃvinmayo bhūtvā cintayetpāpapūruṣam | vāmakukṣisthitaṃ kṛṣṇamaṅguṣṭhaparimāṇakam
Becoming (wholly) of the nature of pure consciousness, he should meditate on the sin-man (pāpapuruṣa), black, of the measure of a thumb, situated in the left side of the belly.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.11
ब्रह्महत्याशिरोयुक्तं कनकस्तेयबाहुकम् । मदिरापानहृदयं गुरुतल्पकटीयुतम्
brahmahatyāśiroyuktaṃ kanakasteyabāhukam | madirāpānahṛdayaṃ gurutalpakaṭīyutam
(He is) one whose head is made of brahmin-killing, whose arms are the theft of gold, whose heart is the drinking of liquor, whose waist is (violation of) the teacher's bed,
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.12
तत्संसर्गिपदद्वन्द्वमुपपातकमस्तकम् । खड्गचर्मधरं कृष्णमधोवक्त्रं सुदुःसहम्
tatsaṃsargipadadvandvamupapātakamastakam | khaḍgacarmadharaṃ kṛṣṇamadhovaktraṃ suduḥsaham
whose pair of feet are association with such (offenders), whose skull is the minor sins; black, bearing sword and shield, with downturned face, most unbearable.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.13
वायुबीजं स्मरन्वायुं सम्पूर्यैनं विशोषयेत् । स्वशरीरयुतं मन्त्रो वह्निबीजेन निर्दहेत्
vāyubījaṃ smaranvāyuṃ sampūryainaṃ viśoṣayet | svaśarīrayutaṃ mantro vahnibījena nirdahet
Recollecting the seed-syllable of air, he should fill (himself) with air and dry this (sin-man) up; the practitioner of the mantra should then, with the seed-syllable of fire, burn (it) up along with his own body.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.14
कुम्भके परिजप्तेन ततः पापनरोद्भवम् । बहिर्भस्म समुत्सार्य वायुबीजेन रेचयेत्
kumbhake parijaptena tataḥ pāpanarodbhavam | bahirbhasma samutsārya vāyubījena recayet
Then, with (the seed) muttered during the breath-retention, having expelled outside the ash arisen from the sin-man, he should exhale with the air-seed.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.15
सुधाबीजेन देहोत्थं भस्म संप्लावयेत्सुधीः । भूबीजेन घनीकृत्य भस्म तत्कनकाण्डवत्
sudhābījena dehotthaṃ bhasma saṃplāvayetsudhīḥ | bhūbījena ghanīkṛtya bhasma tatkanakāṇḍavat
With the seed of nectar the wise one should flood the ash that arose from the body; making that ash solid with the earth-seed, like a lump of gold,
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.16
विशुद्धमुकुराकारं जपन्बीजं विहायसः । मूर्धादिपादपर्यन्तान्यङ्गानि रचयेत्सुधीः
viśuddhamukurākāraṃ japanbījaṃ vihāyasaḥ | mūrdhādipādaparyantānyaṅgāni racayetsudhīḥ
of the shape of a perfectly pure mirror—reciting the seed of the sky, the wise one should fashion the limbs, from the head down to the feet.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.17
आकाशादीनि भूतानि पुनरुत्पादयेच्चितः । सोऽहं मन्त्रेण चात्मानमानयेद्धृदयाम्बुजे
ākāśādīni bhūtāni punarutpādayeccitaḥ | so'haṃ mantreṇa cātmānamānayeddhṛdayāmbuje
With his mind (thus concentrated) he should generate again the elements beginning with space, and with the mantra "He am I" he should bring the Self into the lotus of the heart.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.18
कुण्डलीजीवमादाय परसङ्गात्सुधामयम् । संस्थाप्य हृदयाम्भोजे मूलाधारगतां स्मरेत्
kuṇḍalījīvamādāya parasaṅgātsudhāmayam | saṃsthāpya hṛdayāmbhoje mūlādhāragatāṃ smaret
Taking up the living principle in the coiled (kuṇḍalinī), made of nectar through union with the Supreme, and establishing it in the heart-lotus, he should meditate on her as gone to the root-support (mūlādhāra).
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
DB 11 8.19
रक्ताम्भोधिस्थपोतोल्लसदरुण- सरोजाधिरूढा कराब्जैः शूलं कोदण्डमिक्षूद्भवमणिगुण- मप्यङ्कुशं पञ्चबाणान् । बिभ्राणासृक्कपालं त्रिनयन- लसिता पीनवक्षोरुहाढ्या देवी बालार्कवर्णा भवतु सुखकरी प्राणशक्तिः परा नः
raktāmbhodhisthapotollasadaruṇa- sarojādhirūḍhā karābjaiḥ śūlaṃ kodaṇḍamikṣūdbhavamaṇiguṇa- mapyaṅkuśaṃ pañcabāṇān | bibhrāṇāsṛkkapālaṃ trinayana- lasitā pīnavakṣoruhāḍhyā devī bālārkavarṇā bhavatu sukhakarī prāṇaśaktiḥ parā naḥ
Mounted upon a red lotus that gleams on a boat set in an ocean of blood, bearing with her lotus-hands a trident, a bow of sugarcane, a string of gems, also a goad, five arrows, and a skull of blood; radiant with three eyes, endowed with full breasts, of the colour of the newly risen sun—may the goddess, the supreme power of breath, be a giver of happiness to us.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.20
एवं ध्यात्वा प्राणशक्तिं परमात्मस्वरूपिणीम् । विभूतिधारणं कार्यं सर्वाधिकृतिसिद्धये
evaṃ dhyātvā prāṇaśaktiṃ paramātmasvarūpiṇīm | vibhūtidhāraṇaṃ kāryaṃ sarvādhikṛtisiddhaye
Having thus meditated on the power of breath, whose own form is the supreme Self, the wearing of the sacred ash should be done, for the attainment of authority over all.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
DB 11 8.21
विभूतेर्विस्तरं वक्ष्ये धारणे च महाफलम् । श्रुतिस्मृतिप्रमाणोक्तं भस्मधारणमुत्तमम्
vibhūtervistaraṃ vakṣye dhāraṇe ca mahāphalam | śrutismṛtipramāṇoktaṃ bhasmadhāraṇamuttamam
I shall declare the full extent of the sacred ash and the great fruit in wearing it; the wearing of ash, declared on the authority of śruti and smṛti, is the highest (practice).
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition