Aśvamedhāṅga-sambhūta Mantra (Brahma Purāṇa)
Aśvamedhāṅga Sambhūta Mantra · aśvamedha-aṅga sambhūta mantra, “the mantra “born from the limbs of the aśvamedha””
The Aśvamedhāṅga-sambhūta Mantra is the mantra a pilgrim says while serving the Indradyumna-saras, the sacred lake of the Purushottama-kshetra. It is found in the Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 63, where Brahmā tells the munis the glory of the pañcatīrtha, the five tīrthas of that kshetra. The lake is the tīrtha that arose in the body of the Yajña-purusha, and the mantra opens with the words aśvamedhāṅga-sambhūta, “born from the limbs of the aśvamedha”. With the tarpaṇa done there, it gives the fruit of ten aśvamedhas, lifts seven generations before and seven after, and takes the pilgrim to Vishṇuloka.
When and where it is said
After the bath in the sea, the pilgrim should serve the Indradyumna-saras, the tīrtha that arose in the body of the Yajña-purusha. While serving that tīrtha he says the mantra that begins aśvamedhāṅga-sambhūta. Then he offers tarpaṇa to the devas, the ṛshis and the pitṛs.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 63
The phala
- Doing the tarpaṇa of the devas, ṛshis and pitṛs there, one gains the fruit of ten aśvamedha yāgas.
- One who does this puṇya lifts up seven generations before him and seven generations to come.
- He goes to Vishṇuloka in a vimāna that goes wherever he wishes.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 63
The pañcatīrtha in Jyeshṭha
Brahmā goes on: one who fasts on ekādaśī, serves the five tīrthas and has darśana of Purushottama on the full moon of Jyeshṭha reaches the place of puṇya from which there is no return. When the munis ask why he praises Jyeshṭha above Māgha and the other months, he answers that from the tenth day of the bright half of Jyeshṭha, for seven days, all the tīrthas stay in the Purushottama-kshetra, so that even a little puṇya done there becomes imperishable. That tenth day takes away ten kinds of pāpa and is called Daśaharā; darśana of Balarāma, Kṛshṇa and Subhadrā on that day gives Vishṇuloka. One who has darśana of Purushottama on the Jyeshṭha full moon under the Jyeshṭhā nakshatra lifts twenty-one generations and reaches the abode of Vishṇu.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 63
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 63