Agni Purana — Vastu-Pratishtha & Isana-kalpa, Shloka 2
Chapter 69 — स्नानविधानम्
Rules for Ritual Bathing / Snapanotsava-vidhi
कुर्याद् ध्यानार्चनं होमं हरेरादौ च कर्मसु सहस्रं वा शतं वापि होमयेत् पूर्णया सह
kuryād dhyānārcanaṃ homaṃ harerādau ca karmasu sahasraṃ vā śataṃ vāpi homayet pūrṇayā saha
Au commencement des rites, on doit accomplir la méditation, l’adoration rituelle (arcana) et l’offrande au feu (homa) pour Hari (Viṣṇu). On peut offrir mille oblations, ou même cent ; et l’on doit conclure avec la pūrṇā, l’oblation pleine et complète.
Lord Agni (in dialogue, traditionally instructing the sage Vasiṣṭha)
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Concept: Completeness (pūrṇatā) in ritual: inner focus (dhyāna) + outer worship (arcana) + sacrificial offering (homa) culminates in pūrṇāhuti.
Application: Use fixed counts (100/1000) for discipline; always conclude with pūrṇāhuti to avoid ritual incompletion (apūrṇatā-doṣa).
Khanda Section: Puja-vidhi (Hari-puja, Homa, and ritual preliminaries)
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: bhakti
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Sandhi Resolution Notes: dhyānārcanaṃ = dhyāna-arcanam; harerādau = hareḥ ādau; vāpi = vā api.
Related Themes: Agni Purana 69 (snāna-vidhāna preliminaries)
FAQs
It prescribes the standard ritual sequence—dhyāna (meditation), arcana (formal worship), and homa (fire-offering) to Hari at the outset of any rite, including recommended counts of oblations (100 or 1000) and the requirement of a concluding pūrṇāhuti.
It exemplifies the Agni Purāṇa’s practical ritual manual aspect by giving operational details of worship—order of acts, oblation counts, and the technical closure rite (pūrṇāhuti)—alongside its many other domains (polity, medicine, architecture, poetics).
Beginning rites with Hari-centered meditation, worship, and homa frames the ceremony as devotional and purificatory; the pūrṇāhuti signifies completion and wholeness of the sacrifice, traditionally understood to “seal” the rite and its merit.