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

The bhasma-snana is more efficacious than the varuna-snana in yielding inestimable fruits.
Therefore, the sadhaka should very often do the bhasma-snana, leaving out the varuna-snana.
Without desiring for any other alternate method, the sadhaka should purify the one which is
to be essentially purified to maintain absolute purity.
यथा गङ्गाजलं शुद्धं तथा भस्मापि पावनम्।
भासयत्येव यद्भस्म शुभं भासयते च यत्॥ ५५
भक्षणात्सर्व पापानां भस्मेति परिगीयते।
श्रीकरञ्च पवित्रञ्च हारं आभरणं तथा॥ ५६
लोकवश्यकरं पुण्यं भस्मस्नानं दिने दिने।
ज्वरापस्मार पैशाच ब्रह्मराक्षस पीडिताः॥ ५७
भस्मलेपन मात्रेण स्वस्था मर्त्या भवन्ति च॥ ५८
yathā gaṅgājalaṁ śuddhaṁ tathā bhasmāpi pāvanam|
bhāsayatyeva yadbhasma śubhaṁ bhāsayate ca yat|| 55
bhakṣaṇātsarva pāpānāṁ bhasmeti parigīyate|
śrīkarañca pavitrañca hāraṁ ābharaṇaṁ tathā|| 56
lokavaśyakaraṁ puṇyaṁ bhasmasnānaṁ dine dine|
jvarāpasmāra paiśāca brahamrākṣasa pīḍitāḥ|| 57
bhasmalepana mātreṇa svasthā martyā bhavanti ca|| 58
Just as the water of the Ganga river is always pure, even so the bhasma is always pure. The
bhasma is auspicious one and it is self-luminous and it makes everyone to be luminous.
Since it consumes all the effects of sinful deeds, it is significantly called "Bhasma". For the
human being, the bhasma is the bestower of wealth; purifier; garland; ornaments; capable of
attracting the world; highly meritorious. Therefore, bhasma-snana should be done everyday.
Those persons who are affected with fever and epilepsy, those who are possessed by the ghostly
beings and brahma-rakshasa get re-established in their own state of health and happiness,
merely by besmearing the bhasma over the body.