Linga Purana — Chapter 56

LiP 56.1

वीथ्याश्रयाणि चरति नक्षत्राणि निशाकरः त्रिचक्रोभयतो ऽश्वश् च विज्ञेयस्तस्य वै रथः

vīthyāśrayāṇi carati nakṣatrāṇi niśākaraḥ tricakrobhayato 'śvaś ca vijñeyastasya vai rathaḥ

The maker of night traverses the lunar mansions that rest upon the (celestial) paths; his chariot is to be known as three-wheeled, with horses on both sides.

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LiP 56.2

शतारैश् च त्रिभिश्चक्रैर् युक्तः शुक्लैर्हयोत्तमैः दशभिस्त्वकृशैर् दिव्यैर् असंगैस् तैर् मनोजवैः

śatāraiś ca tribhiścakrair yuktaḥ śuklairhayottamaiḥ daśabhistvakṛśair divyair asaṃgais tair manojavaiḥ

It is joined with three hundred-spoked wheels and with ten excellent white horses, not lean, divine, unimpeded, swift as thought.

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LiP 56.3

रथेनानेन देवैश् च पितृभिश्चैव गच्छति सोमो ह्यम्बुमयैर् गोभिः शुक्लैः शुक्लगभस्तिमान्

rathenānena devaiś ca pitṛbhiścaiva gacchati somo hyambumayair gobhiḥ śuklaiḥ śuklagabhastimān

With this chariot the moon, white-rayed, goes with the gods and with the fathers, (drawn) by white cattle made of water.

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LiP 56.4

क्रमते शुक्लपक्षादौ भास्करात्परमास्थितः आपूर्यते परस्यान्तः सततं दिवसक्रमात्

kramate śuklapakṣādau bhāskarātparamāsthitaḥ āpūryate parasyāntaḥ satataṃ divasakramāt

At the beginning of the bright fortnight he moves, standing beyond the sun; he is filled at the end of the other (fortnight), continually, by the succession of days.

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LiP 56.5

देवैः पीतं क्षये सोमम् आप्याययति नित्यशः पीतं पञ्चदशाहं तु रश्मिनैकेन भास्करः

devaiḥ pītaṃ kṣaye somam āpyāyayati nityaśaḥ pītaṃ pañcadaśāhaṃ tu raśminaikena bhāskaraḥ

He constantly replenishes the soma drunk by the gods at the waning; and the sun drinks it for fifteen days with a single ray.

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LiP 56.6

आपूरयन् सुषुम्नेन भागं भागमनुक्रमात् इत्येषा सूर्यवीर्येण चन्द्रस्याप्यायिता तनुः

āpūrayan suṣumnena bhāgaṃ bhāgamanukramāt ityeṣā sūryavīryeṇa candrasyāpyāyitā tanuḥ

Filling up portion after portion in order by the suṣumnā (ray) — thus is the moon's body replenished by the sun's power.

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LiP 56.7

स पौर्णमास्यां दृश्येत शुक्लः सम्पूर्णमण्डलः एवमाप्यायितं सोमं शुक्लपक्षे दिनक्रमात्

sa paurṇamāsyāṃ dṛśyeta śuklaḥ sampūrṇamaṇḍalaḥ evamāpyāyitaṃ somaṃ śuklapakṣe dinakramāt

On the full-moon day he is seen white, with his disc complete; the moon thus replenished in the bright fortnight day by day.

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LiP 56.8

ततो द्वितीयाप्रभृति बहुलस्य चतुर्दशीम् पिबन्त्यम्बुमयं देवा मधु सौम्यं सुधामृतम्

tato dvitīyāprabhṛti bahulasya caturdaśīm pibantyambumayaṃ devā madhu saumyaṃ sudhāmṛtam

Then, beginning from the second (day) up to the fourteenth of the dark (fortnight), the gods drink the water-formed, lunar honey, the nectar of sudhā.

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LiP 56.9

संभृतं त्वर्धमासेन ह्य् अमृतं सूर्यतेजसा पानार्थममृतं सोमं पौर्णमास्यामुपासते

saṃbhṛtaṃ tvardhamāsena hy amṛtaṃ sūryatejasā pānārthamamṛtaṃ somaṃ paurṇamāsyāmupāsate

The nectar gathered over half a month by the sun's heat — that nectar, the soma, they resort to on the full-moon day for the sake of drinking.

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LiP 56.10

एकरात्रिं सुराः सर्वे पितृभिस्त्वृषिभिः सह सोमस्य कृष्णपक्षादौ भास्कराभिमुखस्य च

ekarātriṃ surāḥ sarve pitṛbhistvṛṣibhiḥ saha somasya kṛṣṇapakṣādau bhāskarābhimukhasya ca

For one night all the gods, together with the ancestors and the sages, (attend upon) the moon at the beginning of the dark fortnight, when it faces the sun.

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LiP 56.11

प्रक्षीयन्ते परस्यान्तः पीयमानाः कलाः क्रमात् त्रयस्त्रिंशच्छताश्चैव त्रयस्त्रिंशत्तथैव च

prakṣīyante parasyāntaḥ pīyamānāḥ kalāḥ kramāt trayastriṃśacchatāścaiva trayastriṃśattathaiva ca

The parts, being drunk, waste away gradually within another (fortnight): three hundred and thirty-three,

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LiP 56.12

त्रयस्त्रिंशत्सहस्राणि देवाः सोमं पिबन्ति वै एवं दिनक्रमात्पीते विबुधैस्तु निशाकरे

trayastriṃśatsahasrāṇi devāḥ somaṃ pibanti vai evaṃ dinakramātpīte vibudhaistu niśākare

and thirty-three thousand gods drink the soma. Thus, when the moon has been drunk day by day by the gods,

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LiP 56.13

पीत्वार्धमासं गच्छन्ति अमावास्यां सुरोत्तमाः पितरश्चोपतिष्ठन्ति अमावास्यां निशाकरम्

pītvārdhamāsaṃ gacchanti amāvāsyāṃ surottamāḥ pitaraścopatiṣṭhanti amāvāsyāṃ niśākaram

having drunk for half a month, the foremost of gods depart at the new moon; and the ancestors attend upon the moon at the new moon.

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LiP 56.14

ततः पञ्चदशे भागे किंचिच्छिष्टे कलात्मके अपराह्णे पितृगणा जघन्यं पर्युपासते

tataḥ pañcadaśe bhāge kiṃcicchiṣṭe kalātmake aparāhṇe pitṛgaṇā jaghanyaṃ paryupāsate

Then, when a little of the fifteenth part, consisting of a digit, remains, in the afternoon the hosts of ancestors attend upon the last (part).

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LiP 56.15

पिबन्ति द्विकलं कालं शिष्टा तस्य कला तु या निसृतं तदमावास्यां गभस्तिभ्यः स्वधामृतम्

pibanti dvikalaṃ kālaṃ śiṣṭā tasya kalā tu yā nisṛtaṃ tadamāvāsyāṃ gabhastibhyaḥ svadhāmṛtam

They drink for the space of two digits; and that digit of his which remains — the svadhā-nectar that flows out from the rays at the new moon —

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LiP 56.16

मासतृप्तिमवाप्याग्र्यां पीत्वा गच्छन्ति ते ऽमृतम् पितृभिः पीयमानस्य पञ्चदश्यां कला तु या

māsatṛptimavāpyāgryāṃ pītvā gacchanti te 'mṛtam pitṛbhiḥ pīyamānasya pañcadaśyāṃ kalā tu yā

having attained the foremost satisfaction for a month, having drunk, they go to the nectar. Now, that digit of the moon which is drunk by the ancestors on the fifteenth,

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LiP 56.17

यावत्तु क्षीयते तस्य भागः पञ्चदशस्तु सः अमावास्यां ततस्तस्या अन्तरा पूर्यते पुनः

yāvattu kṣīyate tasya bhāgaḥ pañcadaśastu saḥ amāvāsyāṃ tatastasyā antarā pūryate punaḥ

insofar as it wanes, that is his fifteenth part; and then, at the new moon, in the interval, it (that digit) is filled again.

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LiP 56.18

वृद्धिक्षयौ वै पक्षादौ षोडश्यां शशिनः स्मृतौ एवं सूर्यनिमित्तैषा पक्षवृद्धिर्निशाकरे

vṛddhikṣayau vai pakṣādau ṣoḍaśyāṃ śaśinaḥ smṛtau evaṃ sūryanimittaiṣā pakṣavṛddhirniśākare

The increase and decrease of the moon are held to occur at the beginning of the fortnights, in the sixteenth (part); thus this waxing over a fortnight in the moon is caused by the sun.

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