Chapter 313 - The mantras relating to the worship of different gods

[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]

Fire-god said:

1-2. I shall describe the mode of worshipping (lord) Vināyaka (the lord of obstacles). One should first worship the energy of the pedestal. One should worship the eight (things) such as the virtue and the like on the stem. The pericarp, filaments etc. (of a lotus) and a lotus representing the three qualities (should be worshipped). Then (the Goddesses) Jvālinī, Nandā, Suyaśā, Ugrā, Tejovatī and Vindhyavāsinī should be worshipped.

3-6. (The different) forms of Gaṇapati should then be worshipped (as follows): “Victory to gaṇa” would be for the heart. (Obeisance) to one having single tusk that is strong (is) for the head. (Obeisance) to the one having immovable ears (is) for the tuft. (Obeisance) to the elephant-faced (is) for the armour. The assignment should end with ‘hūṃ phaṭ’. (Then the following) eight (forms of Gaṇapati should be worshipped): Mahodara (big-bellied), Daṇḍahasta (one that holds the club in the hand), Jaya (victorious), Gaṇādhipa (lord of the Gaṇas), Gaṇanāyaka (leader of the Gaṇas), Gaṇeśvara (lord of the Gaṇas), Vakratuṇḍa (one having bent trunk) and Ekadanta (one having single tusk) should be worshipped in the east (and other directions); one that is fierce, Lambodara (big-bellied), Gajavaktra (having elephant face), Vikaṭanāmā (known as dreadful) and Vighnanāśana (the destroyer of obstacles) should be worshipped in the east (adding the syllable) hūṃ. Dhūmravarṇa (grey-coloured), Mahendra and others (should be worshipped) outside (the diagram). This is the mode of worshipping the lord of obstacles.

7-12. I shall describe the mode of worshipping (Goddess) Tripurā. (One should worship first) Asitāṅga (black-coloured one), Ruru, Caṇḍa (wrathful), Krodha (angry one), Unmatta (intoxicated), Kapālī (one wielding the human skull), Bhīṣaṇa (the dreadful one), Saṃhāra (the destroyer) and Bhairava (the terrible one) in order. (The Goddesses) Brāhmī, Hrasvā, Bhairavā, Brahmāṇī, Ṣaṇmukhā and Dīrghā (should be worshipped). The four celebates—Samayaputra, Yoginīputra, Siddhaputra and Kulaputra should be worshipped in (the angular points such as) the south-east and others. Hetuka, Kṣetrapāla, Tripurānta, Dvitīyaka, Agnivetāla, Agnijihva, Karālī, Kāmalocana, Ekapāda and Bhīmākṣa should be meditated as the seat of the pretas and worshipped with (the (mantras) aiṃ and kṣeṃ. Goddess Tripurā, seated on a lotus seat, holding a book and offering protection (with the right hand) and a garland and conferring boons with the left hand (should be worshipped with) the two (mantras) aiṃ, and oṃ. The location in the heart etc. is also done with the principal (mantra). It is a perfect net (that yields) the desired (result).

13-16. The name (of the enemy) should be written at the centre of (a diagram of) an eight-petalled (lotus drawn) on the ground. (Or it should be written) on a piece of cloth at the cremation ground with a charcoal from the cremation ground. Or an image (of the enemy) should be made with charcoal of the funeral pyre ground well. After contemplation (the incantation) should be placed inside the stomach (of the image) and it should be bound with blue thread. Then there would be the magic incantation. Oṃ, obeisance! O Fortunate One! Jvālāmālinī (one having the flames as a garland)! One surrounded by flocks of eagles! Oblations. A person who goes to the battle after repeating (this) mantra would become victorious. Oṃ, śrīṃ hrīṃ, klīṃ obeisance to Śrī. One has to worship Goddess Ghṛṇinī belonging to the sun on a square (drawn) in (the directions) commencing with the north. (Goddesses) Ādityā, Prabhāvatī, Hemādri, Madhurā and Śrī (should be propitiated). Oṃ, hrīṃ obeisance to Gaurī. This mantra of (Goddess) Gaurī would yield all things when (it is used) for doing oblation, meditation, repetition and worship.

17-20. A person who prays to the Goddess of red complexion, having four arms and holding anoose and conferring boons with the right hand and holding a goad and offering protection (with the left hand), after contemplation of Her form, would live for a hundred years. He would be a wiseman. There would not be fear due to thieves and enemies. An angry person would become graceful by drinking the water charmed with the mantra in the battle. A collyrium or mark (made with the same) would make one get poesy at the tip of his tongue. The repetition of that (mantra) at the time of coition would captivate (the concerned person). (One would captivate a person) by looking at the genital organ after the repetition of the (mantra). (A person would be captivated) by the touch (after the repetition of the same). One would accomplish all things by doing oblation with sesamum. A person who eats food that has been charmed seven times (with the above) would always (get) fortune.

21-22. This (mantra) is a form of Ardhanārīśa (hermaphrodite form of lord Śiva), as well as (Goddess) Lakṣmī, (lord) Viṣṇu and others. One has to repeat (the mantras of Goddesses) Anaṅgarūpā, Madanāturā, Pavanavegā, Bhuvanapālā, Sarvasiddhidā, Anaṅgamadanā and Anaṅgamekhalā for (gaining) fortune.

23-24. (The syllable) hrīṃ, the vowels and (the letters) ka etc. should be written at the centre and on the petals of a lotus or on a hexagon or on a pot. (A person that looks at women after doing thus) would captivate the women. Oṃ, hrīṃ, chūṃ, O Nityaklinnā (ever moist)! O Madadravā (one who exudes intoxicating fluid)! Oṃ, Oṃ. This principal mantra after location on the six limbs (the two shanks, two arms, head and middle) (and then written) on red-coloured triangle (and worn on the body) would have great power to melt (the heart), make happy and agitate.

25-26. (Goddess) Nityā (should be worshipped) at the centre as well as (the angular points such as) the north-east together with the noose, goad, skull, the wish-yielding tree, lute and red-coloured (?). (Goddesses) Nityā, Abhayā, Maṅgalā, Navavīrā, Maṅgalā (?), Durbhagā, Manonmanī and Drāvā should be worshipped in the (directions) commencing with the east.

27-28. Oṃ, hrīṃ obeisance to Anaṅga^[1] (without a body). Oṃ, hrīṃ, hrīṃ, obeisance to Smara (one that makes one to remember), (obeisance) to Manmatha (one that agitates the mind), to Māra and to Kāma. The five (forms of God of love) should be contemplated as holding a noose, goad, bow and arrows and as in the union of Rati (Goddess of love) (and her companions) Vīrati (non-attachment), Prīti (pleasure), Viprīti (displeasure), Mati (thought), Dhṛti (firmness), Vidhṛti (fickle-mindedness), and Puṣṭi (nourishment). Oṃ, chaṃ, O Nityaklinnā (ever moist)! Madadravā (exuding intoxicating liquid)! Oṃ, Oṃ, a, ā, i, ī, u, ū, ṛ, ṝ, ḷ, ḹ, e, ai, o, au, aṃ, aḥ, ka, kha, ga, gha, ṅa, ca, cha,ja, jha, ña, ṭa, ṭha, ḍa, ḍha, ṇa, ta, tha, da, dha, na, pa, pha, ba, bha, ma, ya, ra, la, va, śa, ṣa, sa, ha, kṣa. Oṃ, chaṃ oblations to Nityaklinnā and Madadravā, The energy of support and the lotus (should be worshipped) on the lion and the Goddess in the heart and other (limbs). Oṃ, hrīṃ, Gaurī (white coloured)! The consort of Rudra (Śiva)! Yogeśvarī (mistress of faculties)! Hūṃ, phaṭ oblations.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

This and the following four names denote the God of love.