Linga Purana — Chapter 60
LiP 60.1
शेषाः पञ्च ग्रहा ज्ञेया ईश्वराः कामचारिणः पठ्यते चाग्निरादित्य उदकं चन्द्रमाः स्मृतः
śeṣāḥ pañca grahā jñeyā īśvarāḥ kāmacāriṇaḥ paṭhyate cāgnirāditya udakaṃ candramāḥ smṛtaḥ
The remaining five planets are to be known as lords moving at will. Fire is recited as the sun, and water is held to be the moon.
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LiP 60.2
शेषाणां प्रकृतिं सम्यग् वक्ष्यमाणां निबोधत सुरसेनापतिः स्कन्दः पठ्यते ऽङ्गारको ग्रहः
śeṣāṇāṃ prakṛtiṃ samyag vakṣyamāṇāṃ nibodhata surasenāpatiḥ skandaḥ paṭhyate 'ṅgārako grahaḥ
Learn well the nature of the remaining ones, which is about to be told: Skanda, the commander of the gods' army, is recited as the planet Aṅgāraka (Mars).
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LiP 60.3
नारायणं बुधं प्राहुर् देवं ज्ञानविदो जनाः सर्वलोकप्रभुः साक्षाद् यमो लोकप्रभुः स्वयम्
nārāyaṇaṃ budhaṃ prāhur devaṃ jñānavido janāḥ sarvalokaprabhuḥ sākṣād yamo lokaprabhuḥ svayam
People who know wisdom call the god Budha (Mercury) Nārāyaṇa; and Yama, manifestly the lord of all worlds, himself the world's lord,
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LiP 60.4
महाग्रहो द्विजश्रेष्ठा मन्दगामी शनैश्चरः देवासुरगुरू द्वौ तु भानुमन्तौ महाग्रहौ
mahāgraho dvijaśreṣṭhā mandagāmī śanaiścaraḥ devāsuragurū dvau tu bhānumantau mahāgrahau
is the great planet, O best of the twice-born, the slow-moving Śanaiścara (Saturn). And the two teachers of the gods and the asuras are two shining great planets,
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LiP 60.5
प्रजापतिसुतावुक्तौ ततः शुक्रबृहस्पती आदित्यमूलमखिलं त्रैलोक्यं नात्र संशयः
prajāpatisutāvuktau tataḥ śukrabṛhaspatī ādityamūlamakhilaṃ trailokyaṃ nātra saṃśayaḥ
namely Śukra and Bṛhaspati, who are said to be the sons of Prajāpati. The whole triple world is rooted in the sun; there is no doubt of this.
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LiP 60.6
भवत्यस्माज्जगत्कृत्स्नं सदेवासुरमानुषम् रुद्रेन्द्रोपेन्द्रचन्द्राणां विप्रेन्द्राग्निदिवौकसाम्
bhavatyasmājjagatkṛtsnaṃ sadevāsuramānuṣam rudrendropendracandrāṇāṃ viprendrāgnidivaukasām
From him comes to be the entire world together with gods, asuras and men. (His is) of Rudra, Indra, Upendra and the moon, of the foremost brahmins, of Agni and the dwellers in heaven,
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LiP 60.7
द्युतिर्द्युतिमतां कृत्स्नं यत्तेजः सर्वलौकिकम् सर्वात्मा सर्वलोकेशो महादेवः प्रजापतिः
dyutirdyutimatāṃ kṛtsnaṃ yattejaḥ sarvalaukikam sarvātmā sarvalokeśo mahādevaḥ prajāpatiḥ
the splendour of the splendid — whatever light is wholly of all the worlds. (He is) the Self of all, the lord of all worlds, the Great God, Prajāpati.
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LiP 60.8
सूर्य एव त्रिलोकेशो मूलं परमदैवतम् ततः संजायते सर्वं तत्रैव प्रविलीयते
sūrya eva trilokeśo mūlaṃ paramadaivatam tataḥ saṃjāyate sarvaṃ tatraiva pravilīyate
The sun alone is the lord of the three worlds, the root, the supreme deity; from him all this is born, and in him alone it dissolves again.
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LiP 60.9
भावाभावौ हि लोकानाम् आदित्यान्निःसृतौ पुरा अविज्ञेयो ग्रहो विप्रा दीप्तिमान्सुप्रभो रविः
bhāvābhāvau hi lokānām ādityānniḥsṛtau purā avijñeyo graho viprā dīptimānsuprabho raviḥ
For the coming-to-be and passing-away of the worlds issued forth of old from the sun. Unknowable is that planet, O brahmins — the blazing, bright-shining sun.
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LiP 60.10
अत्र गच्छन्ति निधनं जायन्ते च पुनः पुनः क्षणा मुहूर्ता दिवसा निशाः पक्षाश् च कृत्स्नशः
atra gacchanti nidhanaṃ jāyante ca punaḥ punaḥ kṣaṇā muhūrtā divasā niśāḥ pakṣāś ca kṛtsnaśaḥ
In him (all) go to their end and are born again and again: moments, hours, days, nights, and fortnights in their entirety,
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LiP 60.11
मासाः संवत्सरश्चैव ऋतवो ऽथ युगानि च तदादित्यादृते ह्येषा कालसंख्या न विद्यते
māsāḥ saṃvatsaraścaiva ṛtavo 'tha yugāni ca tadādityādṛte hyeṣā kālasaṃkhyā na vidyate
months, the year, the seasons, and the ages too; for apart from that sun this reckoning of time does not exist.
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LiP 60.12
कालादृते न नियमो न दीक्षा नाह्निकक्रमः ऋतूनां च विभागश् च पुष्पं मूलं फलं कुतः
kālādṛte na niyamo na dīkṣā nāhnikakramaḥ ṛtūnāṃ ca vibhāgaś ca puṣpaṃ mūlaṃ phalaṃ kutaḥ
Apart from time there is no (religious) observance, no initiation, no order of daily rites, nor the division of the seasons — whence then flower, root, and fruit?
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LiP 60.13
कुतः सस्यविनिष्पत्तिस् तृणौषधिगणो ऽपि च अभावो व्यवहाराणां जन्तूनां दिवि चेह च
kutaḥ sasyaviniṣpattis tṛṇauṣadhigaṇo 'pi ca abhāvo vyavahārāṇāṃ jantūnāṃ divi ceha ca
Whence the ripening of crops, and the host of grasses and healing herbs? There would be an absence of the transactions of living beings, both in heaven and here,
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LiP 60.14
जगत्प्रतापनमृते भास्करं रुद्ररूपिणम् स एष कालश्चाग्निश् च द्वादशात्मा प्रजापतिः
jagatpratāpanamṛte bhāskaraṃ rudrarūpiṇam sa eṣa kālaścāgniś ca dvādaśātmā prajāpatiḥ
were it not for the sun, the heater of the world, who has Rudra's form. He indeed is time and fire, twelvefold in nature, the lord of creatures.
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LiP 60.15
तपत्येष द्विजश्रेष्ठास् त्रैलोक्यं सचराचरम् स एष तेजसां राशिः समस्तः सार्वलौकिकः
tapatyeṣa dvijaśreṣṭhās trailokyaṃ sacarācaram sa eṣa tejasāṃ rāśiḥ samastaḥ sārvalaukikaḥ
He, O best of the twice-born, heats the three worlds with all that moves and does not move; he is the whole mass of radiances belonging to all the worlds.
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LiP 60.16
उत्तमं मार्गमास्थाय रात्र्यहोभिर् इदं जगत् पार्श्वत ऊर्ध्वम् अधश् चैव तापयत्येष सर्वशः
uttamaṃ mārgamāsthāya rātryahobhir idaṃ jagat pārśvata ūrdhvam adhaś caiva tāpayatyeṣa sarvaśaḥ
Taking the highest path, with (its) nights and days, he heats this world on every side — to the sides, above, and below.
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LiP 60.17
यथा प्रभाकरो दीपो गृहमध्ये ऽवलम्बितः पार्श्वत ऊर्ध्वम् अधश्चैव तमो नाशयते समम्
yathā prabhākaro dīpo gṛhamadhye 'valambitaḥ pārśvata ūrdhvam adhaścaiva tamo nāśayate samam
Just as a light-giving lamp hung in the middle of a house destroys the darkness equally to the sides, above, and below,
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LiP 60.18
तद्वत्सहस्रकिरणो ग्रहराजो जगत्प्रभुः सूर्यो गोभिर् जगत् सर्वम् आदीपयति सर्वतः
tadvatsahasrakiraṇo graharājo jagatprabhuḥ sūryo gobhir jagat sarvam ādīpayati sarvataḥ
so the thousand-rayed one, king of the planets, lord of the world, the sun, illumines the whole world on all sides with his beams.
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LiP 60.19
रवे रश्मिसहस्रं यत् प्राङ्मया समुदाहृतम् तेषां श्रेष्ठाः पुनः सप्त रश्मयो ग्रहयोनयः
rave raśmisahasraṃ yat prāṅmayā samudāhṛtam teṣāṃ śreṣṭhāḥ punaḥ sapta raśmayo grahayonayaḥ
Of the thousand rays of the sun that I have declared before, seven again are the foremost, the rays that are the sources of the planets:
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LiP 60.20
सुषुम्नो हरिकेशश् च विश्वकर्मा तथैव च विश्वव्यचाः पुनश्चाद्यः संनद्धश् च ततः परः
suṣumno harikeśaś ca viśvakarmā tathaiva ca viśvavyacāḥ punaścādyaḥ saṃnaddhaś ca tataḥ paraḥ
Suṣumna, and Harikeśa, and likewise Viśvakarman, then Viśvavyacas, and Saṃnaddha next after that,
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LiP 60.21
सर्वावसुः पुनश्चान्यः स्वराडन्यः प्रकीर्तितः सुषुम्नः सूर्यरश्मिस्तु दक्षिणां राशिम् ऐधयत्
sarvāvasuḥ punaścānyaḥ svarāḍanyaḥ prakīrtitaḥ suṣumnaḥ sūryaraśmistu dakṣiṇāṃ rāśim aidhayat
and yet another, Sarvāvasu, and another declared to be Svarāṭ. Now the sun's ray Suṣumna kindled the southern constellation (the moon).
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LiP 60.22
न्यगूर्ध्वाधः प्रचारो ऽस्य सुषुम्नः परिकीर्तितः हरिकेशः पुरस्ताद् यो ऋक्षयोनिः प्रकीर्त्यते
nyagūrdhvādhaḥ pracāro 'sya suṣumnaḥ parikīrtitaḥ harikeśaḥ purastād yo ṛkṣayoniḥ prakīrtyate
Its course is downward, upward, and below; (that ray) is called Suṣumna. Harikeśa, which is in the east, is declared to be the source of the lunar mansions.
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LiP 60.23
दक्षिणे विश्वकर्मा च रश्मिर्वर्धयते बुधम् विश्वव्यचास्तु यः पश्चाच् छुक्रयोनिः स्मृतो बुधैः
dakṣiṇe viśvakarmā ca raśmirvardhayate budham viśvavyacāstu yaḥ paścāc chukrayoniḥ smṛto budhaiḥ
In the south the ray Viśvakarman makes Mercury wax; and Viśvavyacas, which is in the west, is held by the wise to be the source of Venus.
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LiP 60.24
संनद्धश् च तु यो रश्मिः स योनिर् लोहितस्य तु षष्ठः सर्वावसू रश्मिः स योनिस्तु बृहस्पतेः
saṃnaddhaś ca tu yo raśmiḥ sa yonir lohitasya tu ṣaṣṭhaḥ sarvāvasū raśmiḥ sa yonistu bṛhaspateḥ
And the ray which is Saṃnaddha, that is the source of the Red one (Mars); the sixth ray, Sarvāvasu, that is the source of Jupiter.
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LiP 60.25
शनैश्चरं पुनश् चापि रश्मिर् आप्यायते स्वराट् एवं सूर्यप्रभावेन नक्षत्रग्रहतारकाः
śanaiścaraṃ punaś cāpi raśmir āpyāyate svarāṭ evaṃ sūryaprabhāvena nakṣatragrahatārakāḥ
And again the ray Svarāṭ nourishes Saturn. Thus by the sun's power the lunar mansions, planets, and stars
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LiP 60.26
दृश्यन्ते दिवि ताः सर्वाः विश्वं चेदं पुनर्जगत् न क्षीयन्ते यतस्तानि तस्मान्नक्षत्रता स्मृता
dṛśyante divi tāḥ sarvāḥ viśvaṃ cedaṃ punarjagat na kṣīyante yatastāni tasmānnakṣatratā smṛtā
— all of them are seen in the sky, and this whole world too. Since they do not wane (na kṣīyante), therefore their being called nakṣatras is taught.
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