कामिक आगम: पूर्व भाग (अष्टाविंशति मूल शैव आगमों का प्रथम एवं सर्वोच्च आगम महाकोश)

thread around the fire-pit, 14. Worshipping the fire-pit, 15. Arranging the bundles of darbha-grass known as
paridhi and vishtara around the fire-pit, 16. Drawing the four lines, 17. Designing the darbha-grass to be in
the form of vajra weapon, 18. Designing a specific pattern known as catushpatha(drawing two lines so as to
make four quadrangles). The learned Acharya should perform all these sacraments (from 5 to 18) with the
recital of astra mantra.
आसनं तत्र संकल्प्य देवीं वागीश्वरीं न्यसेत्।
तद्वद्वागीश्वरं चापि यद्वाकाशतनुं शिवम्॥ ४६
ध्यात्वा रिरंसुमैशान्यां सङ्गमय्य यथाविधि।
कल्पमन्थानसम्प्रातं समिधश्चैतयोस्ततः॥ ४७
शुद्धात्मतत्त्ववद्वह्निं अरणेर्जनितं क्षिपेत्।
āsanaṁ tatra saṁkalpya devīṁ vāgīśvarīṁ nyaset|
tadvadvāgīśvaraṁ cāpi yadvākāśatanuṁ śivam|| 46
dhyātvā riraṁsumaiśānyāṁ saṅgamayya yathāvidhi|
kalpamanthānusamprātaṁ samidhaścaitayostataḥ|| 47
śuddhātmatattvavadvahniṁ araṇerjanitaṁ kṣipet|
Having placed a seat(with darbha) over the catushpatha, the Guru should invoke the presence of Vagisvari Sakti
there. Similarly, he should invoke the presence of Vagisvara Siva whose form is of the nature of the space(of
consciousness). Having meditated on them, the Guru should contemplate the auspicious union of Vagisvari
and Vagisvara as taking place in an ordely way in the north-east of the fire-pit. Then, according to the rules
laid down in the concerned treatise, he should place the fire produced by means of attrition along with the
faggots inside the fire-pit contemplating that the produced fire is of the form of pure atmatattva of Vagisvari
and Vagisvara.
सूर्यकान्ताद् द्विजावासात् प्रसूतं अथवाऽनलम्॥ ४८
अनुकल्पविधानेन मन्त्रपूतं नियोजयेत्।
अयस्कान्तादितोऽकल्पं अथवानीय कल्पवित्॥ ४९
ताम्रपात्रे शरावे वा विक्षणाद्यैर्विशोधयेत्।
क्रव्यादंशं परित्यज्य प्रोक्षयेदस्त्रवारिणा॥ ५०
कवचेनावकुण्ठ्याथ ऐमुनायेति विन्यसेत्।
sūryakāntād dvijāvāsāt prasūtaṁ athavā'nalam|| 48
anukalpavidhānena mantrapūtaṁ niyojayet|
ayaskāntādito'kalpaṁ athavānīya kalpavit|| 49
tāmrapātre śarāve vā vīkṣaṇādyairviśodhayet|
kravyādaṁśaṁ parityajya prokṣayedastravāriṇā|| 50
kavacenāvakuṇṭhyātha aimunāyeti vinyaset|
If not produced by attrition, the Guru may produce the fire with sun-stone or he may collect the fire
from the house of siva brahmins or srauta brahmins. Then, he should purify that fire with the recital of relevant
mantras according to the rules applicable to ‘anukalpa- fire’ and place it in the fire-pit. Or, the Guru who has