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Śrī Śiva Mahāpurāṇa 17.14
The Saṃhitā of Rudra · Satī Khaṇḍa — Śiva Grants Satī Her Boon
अथ त्रपां स्वां संधाय यदा प्राह हरं सती।
यथेष्टं देहि वरद वरमित्यनिवारकम्॥
atha trapāṃ svāṃ saṃdhāya yadā prāha haraṃ satī
yatheṣṭaṃ dehi varada varamityanivārakam
English
Then, restraining her own modesty, Satī spoke to Hara: 'O giver of boons, grant me the boon I desire, one that is unfailing.'
हिन्दी
तब अपनी लज्जा को रोककर जब सती ने हर से कहा — "हे वरद! आप मुझे अपने इच्छानुसार अनिवार्य वर दीजिये।"
OccultGuide. Śrī Śiva Mahāpurāṇa, Saṃhitā of Rudra, Satī Khaṇḍa 17.14. https://occultguide.com/scripture/shree-shiv-mahapuran/rudra-samhita-sati-khand-seventeen-shiva-grants-satis-boon#v14. Sanskrit text in the public domain; translation CC BY-SA 4.0.
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श्रीशिवमहापुराण
Śrī Śiva Mahāpurāṇa
One of the eighteen Mahāpurāṇas, given in the form Vyāsa received it from Sanatkumāra. Our own translation, verse by verse.
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25 adhyāyas
विद्येश्वरसंहिता
The Saṃhitā of Vidyeśvara
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20 adhyāyas
रुद्रसंहिता — सृष्टिखण्ड
The Saṃhitā of Rudra · Sṛṣṭi Khaṇḍa
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43 adhyāyas
रुद्रसंहिता — सतीखण्ड
The Saṃhitā of Rudra · Satī Khaṇḍa
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55 adhyāyas
रुद्रसंहिता — पार्वतीखण्ड
The Saṃhitā of Rudra · Pārvatī Khaṇḍa
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20 adhyāyas
रुद्रसंहिता — कुमारखण्ड
The Saṃhitā of Rudra · Kumāra Khaṇḍa
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59 adhyāyas
रुद्रसंहिता — युद्धखण्ड
The Saṃhitā of Rudra · Yuddha Khaṇḍa
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2 adhyāyas
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What should be done for the pitrs on the Shravan Amavasya?
The speaker says many subjects concerning the pitrs are already present on the channel. If one wishes to do something particularly on the Shravan Amavasya, then the pitrs are certainly pleased by the pujan of Bhagwan Shiva. Do rudrabhishek with milk. Do the "satachan" of Bhagwan. And if you wish to do it separately and in an extensive form for the pitrs, then do panchbali.
Why a wrong Saptashati havan stops marriages and mangalik work
The speaker says people who do a Saptashati havan without knowing its rules become the cause of their own ruin: mangalik work in the home stops, marriages get stuck and are slow to happen afterwards, and the household's auspiciousness is destroyed. The reason he gives: when Agni is invoked in the fire — Agni who is Mother Svaha — and an astra mantra from the Kavach is put into her mouth as ahuti, her mouth is pierced; how then will she do you good? Without a guru's knowledge and adesh, offer only nourishing (paushtik) mantras; there is a further vidhi of which mantra goes to which Agni in the Kavach chapter and elsewhere. What may be offered freely 108 times is the first mantra of the Keelak, which he quotes as "विशुद्ध ज्ञान देहया त्रिवेदी दीप चक्षु से … श्रेय प्राप्ति निमित्ताय", and also Jayanti Mangala Kalika. He closes: do not do a Shatchandi with wrong havan, wrong path or wrong vidhi.
About 12 hours in paper, 11 years in brass, 25 in silver and 100 in gold
Energy retention scales with the material: about 12 hours in a paper photograph, roughly 11 years in a mobile-consecrated brass idol, about 25 years in silver, and about 100 years in gold — with regular daily worship continually extending it.
No sakalya ahuti for uvacha lines and astra mantras in a Saptashati havan
The speaker says many people without diksha or adhikar perform havan with great force using all 700 mantras, mispronouncing as they go, unaware that the "uvacha" lines — such as "Markandeya uvacha" — and the astra mantras are never offered with sakalya. Such lines take ahuti only of ghrit, or of fruit placed on a paan leaf; there is a vidhan for this and ignoring it causes trouble. Wherever Bhagavati's weapons are named or she wields them, those astra mantras are never used for ahuti — for instance the line "शंख चक्र गदा श्रंग गृहीत प्रमायुधे…", where shankha, chakra, gada and shringa all make it an astra mantra.
Can Bhagavati Vindhyavasini be worshipped from a photograph?
Yes — the speaker says the worship of Bhagavati Vindhyavasini may certainly be performed, and that a photograph is quite enough for it.
Cow-dung dhuni for the kuldevi with 21 ahutis of two mantras
The second part of the kuldevi prayog, the speaker says, is done at the puja place in a large clay vessel or a havan kund that is not copper or iron. Havan fire is not invoked: ordinary cow-dung cakes are lit with ghee or kapoor, and 21 ahutis each are given with two mantras — for the kuldevi and with the first mantra of the Argala Stotra, "Jayanti Mangala Kali". One may first offer ahutis for guru and Ganapati. The kuldevi ahutis use guggul only, with nothing else added; the Jayanti Mangala ahutis use guggul with the seeds of four or five split cardamoms and a little ghee. If one does not say svaha it is no problem, since this is a dhuni.
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Dattatreya
दत्तात्रेयThe combined avatar of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, worshipped as a guru deity, especially within the Nath and Tantric traditions.
Vashistha
वशिष्ठThe family guru (Kulguru) of Lord Shri Ram, who transmitted Ram's power through the worship of Goddess Tara as a Mahavidya form of Jagadamba.
Shri Vidya
श्री विद्याA Tantric tradition centered on the worship of the Goddess as Tripura Sundari via the Shri Yantra — its rituals like Shri Yantra Chakra Pujan are reserved for its own initiates.
Bhikshatana
भिक्षाटनThe discipline of alms-begging — subsisting solely on alms collected during specific hours from unrelated households — used by advanced lineages to eliminate spiritual ego (Guru-ahankara) in accomplished practitioners; Lord Dattatreya Himself is said to embody this practice.
Nyasa
न्यासThe ritual placement of a mantra's seed syllables onto the head, mouth, heart, and other limbs of the body, which transforms the practitioner into a living form of the deity being worshipped.
Mantra Siddhi
मंत्र सिद्धिThe mastery or spiritual accomplishment of a mantra achieved through disciplined recitation.