Essay name: Purana Bulletin
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Affiliation: University of Kerala / Faculty of Oriental Studies
The "Purana Bulletin" is an academic journal published in India. The journal focuses on the study of Puranas, which are a genre of ancient Indian literature encompassing mythological stories, traditions, and philosophical teachings. They represent Hindu scriptures in Sanskrit and cover a wide range of subjects.
Purana, Volume 1, Part 2 (1960)
108 (of 150)
External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)
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啶啶班ぞ啶｀ぎ啷� -- [pur膩峁嘺m -- ] PURANA
[Vol. I, No. 2
Similar information about a Sapta-Samudra Well at Patna has
been heard, but details are awaited.
The consisted of a neat ceremony performed
near the Sapta-Samudra well by ordering seven golden basins
(kundas) to represent the Seven Seas. They ranged in size
from one pr膩de艣a (9") to one aratni (18") and the quantity of gold
used varied from 7 palas to 1000 palas (a pala being equal to
4 karsha or tola wt.). These were filled all with precious stones
and each with salt, milk, butter, molasses, curds, sugar, holy
water, ( 啶侧さ啶�, 啶曕啶粪啶�, 啶樴啶�, 啶囙啷嵿し啷佮ぐ啶�, 啶︵ぇ啶�, 啶多ぐ啷嵿啶班ぞ, 啶多啶︵啶� 啶夃う啶� ), [lava峁嘺, k峁Ｄ玶a, gh峁泃a, ik峁rasa, dadhi, 艣arkar膩, 艣uddha udaka ), ] and the figures of
Brahm膩, Vish峁噓, Siva, Surya, Chandra, Lakshmi, P膩rvat墨
respectively were placed in them. Before making the gift, one
was devoutly to recite mantras to the Oceans:
11. Homage to you, O eternal Seas, the meeting-place
of all the flowing rivers, and life-givers to living creatures.
12. You make happy the creatures of the three worlds
with your ambrosial gifts of milk, water, butter, curds, sugar,
salt, and molasses, and also with treasures. May you effect
an end to my miserable condition.
13. In these worlds you alone bestow stable wealth
lasting for generations ( 啶膏啶う啷嵿ぇ 啶ぃ啶苦お啷嵿ぐ啶︵ぞ啶� ) [subaddha ma峁噄prad膩na ) ] on religious people ( 啶む啶班啶� ),
[t墨rtha ),
] Gods and Asuras. You possess in your womb goddess 艢r墨-
Lakshmi that adorns the bodies of men by applying the ambro-
sial unguent of wealth and removing wants (褔4 = 34 );鈥�
may that Goddess come to me also.
14. Remaining pure and unperplexed who offers to the
Occans surging with ambrosial fluids golden lotuses, he attains
to the seat of God Vishnu and even the immortals begin to
worship him.
15. Himself becoming free from all his sins (in the form
of wants and miseries), his merits (earned by virtue of the
Great Gift of the Seven Occans) at once transfer his ancestors,
sons and wives from burning hell to the abode of God Siva.
