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so'śnute sukhamavyayam || yadi kuryādamāyuktāṃ pratipatsthāpane mama | tasya śāpāyutaṃ dattvā bhasmaśeṣaṃ karomyaham|| āgrahātkurute yastu kalaśasthāpanaṃ mamātasya saṃpadvināśaḥsyājjyeṣṭhaḥ putro vinaśyati || amāyuktā na kartavyā pratipaccaṃḍikārcane | dhanārthibhirviśeṣeṇa vaṃśahāniśca jāyate || na darśakalayā yuktā pratipaccaṃḍikārcane | udaye dvimuhūrtāpi grāhyā sodayadāyinī || iti devīpurāṇe--“yā cāśvayuji māse syātpratipaddvayyānvitā | śuklā mamārcanaṃ tasyāṃ śatayajñaphalapradam ||” rudrayāmale--“amāyuktā sadā caiva pratipanniṃditā matā | tatra cetsthāpayetkuṃbhaṃ durbhikṣaṃ jāyate dhruvam || pratipatsadvitīyā tu kumbhāropaṇakarmaṇi” iti yadyapi rudrayāmalaṃ ḍāmaraṃ ca nirmūlaṃ tathāpyavirodhāt pracārācca tadvacanāni likhyante tithitattve devīpurāṇepi-“ prātarāvahayeddevīṃ prātareva praveśayet | prātaḥ prātaśca sampūjya prātareva visarjayet || ” tatraiva-“ śaratkāle mahāpūjā kriyate yā ca vārṣikī || sā ### [15.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.nirnaya.nirnayasindhu.15.3.2) kāryodayagāminyāṃ na tatra tithiyugmatā || ” tathā-“ kuhūkāṣṭhopasaṃyuktāṃ varjayetpratipattithim | rājyanāśāya sā proktā niṃditā cāśvapūjane ” iti || eṣu vacaneṣu kalaśasthāpanagrahaṇāt tadeva prathamadine niṣidhyate | na tūpavāsādi | tasya-‘ pratipadyapyamāvāsyā ’ iti yugmavākyāt | ‘śuklā syāt pratipattithiḥ prathamataḥ’ iti dīpikokteḥ ‘ śuklapakṣe darśaviddhā’ iti mādhavokteśca | pūrvadine prāptasya bādhe mānābhāvāditi kecit vastutastu pūrvoktavākyeṣu caṇḍikārcanapūjāgrahaṇādupavāsādeścāṅgatvān pradhānadevīpūjādāvapi pareti yuktam || kalaśasthāpanagrahaṇaṃ tūpalakṣaṇam | ata eva devalaḥ-“ vratopavāsaniyame ghaṭikaikāpi yā bhavet | sā tithistaddine pūjyā viparītā tu paitṛke ” iti atra ghaṭikā muhūrta iti || gauḍāḥ || yadā tu pūrvadine sampūrṇā śuddhā ca bhūtvā paradine vardhate tadā sampūrṇatvādamāyogābhāvācca pūrvaiva || yāni ca dvitīyāyoganiṣedhakāni vacanāni kecit paṭhanti tānyapi śuddhādhikāniṣedhaparāṇi | paradine pratipadotyantāsattve tu darśayutāpi pūrvaiva grāhyā | tadāha lallaḥ-‘ tithiḥ śarīraṃ tithireva kāraṇaṃ tithiḥ pramāṇaṃ tithireva sādhanam ’ iti || yāni tu-‘ amāyuktā prakartavyā ’ ityādīni nṛsiṃhaprasāde vacanāni || tāni samūlatve satyetadviṣayāṇi | atredaṃ tattvam | pūrvoktavākyānāṃ sarveṣāṃ ### [15.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.nirnaya.nirnayasindhu.15.3.3) hemādrayādyalikhitatvena nirmūlatvāttaiścānyanirṇayasyānukteḥ sāmānyanirṇayāt | pūrvavat prāptāvapi gauḍanibandheṣu viśeṣanirṇayādaudayikī grāhyā | tatrāpi ‘ ghaṭikā ’ ityasya dvimuhūrtastutitvokterdvimuhūrtā grāhyā | ‘ udite daivataṃ bhānau ’ ityatra ‘ dvimuhūrtā trirahnaśca iti audayikyā dvimuhūrtatvaniyamāt | tena ‘ udaye dvimuhūrtāpi ’ ityādyanusāropi ‘ muhūrtamātrā kartavyā’ iti dvimuhūrtastutiḥ anyathā dvimuhūrtavidhivaiyarthyāt | kecittu-‘ muhūrtamātrā’ iti vacanāttato nyūnatve parā netyāhuḥ || gauḍā apyevam atra devīpūjaiva pradhānam | upavāsādi tvaṅgam | “aṣṭamyāṃ ca navamyāṃ ca jaganmātaramambikām | pūjayitvāśvine māsi viśoko jāyate naraḥ” iti hemādrau bhaviṣye tasyā eva phalasaṃbandhāt | ‘navamītithiparyantaṃ vṛddhyā pūjājapādikam’ iti tatraiva devīpurāṇāt | ‘śaratkāle mahāpūlā kriyate yā ca vārṣikī’ iti mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇācca | pūrvavacanādaṣṭamīpūjaiva pradhānamanyatsarvamaṃgamiti gauḍāḥ || ekāhapakṣo'pi kālikāpurāṇe-“yastvekasyāmathāṣṭamyāṃ navamyāmatha sādhakaḥ | pūjayedvaradāṃ devīṃ mahāvibhavavistaraiḥ” iti tattvaṃ tu-rājasūyenyayāgaiḥ samapradhānāyāḥ sahitāyā apyaveṣṭeḥ etayānnādyakāmaṃ yājayedityekatvānmadhye vidhānācca yathā phalārtho bahiḥ prayogastathā navarātramadhyasthāyā aṣṭamyā navamyā vā phalārthaḥ pṛthak prayogaḥ || rūpanārāyaṇadhṛtadevīpurāṇe-“mahānavamyāṃ pūjeyaṃ ### [15.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.nirnaya.nirnayasindhu.15.3.4) sarvakāmapradāyikā || sarveṣu vatsa varṇeṣu tava bhaktyā prakīrttitā || kṛtvāpnoti yaśorājyaputrāyurdhanasaṃpadaḥ ||” sā ca kāmyā nityā ca | “evamanyairapi tathā devyāḥ kāryyaṃ prapūjanam | vibhūtimatulāṃ labdhuṃ caturvargapradāyikām” iti || “yo mohādathavālasyāddevīṃ durgāṃ mahotsave | na pūjayati dambhādvā dveṣādvāpyatha bhairava | kruddhā bhagavatī tasya kāmāniṣṭānnihanti vai” iti kālikāpurāṇe phalanindāśruteḥ | ‘varṣe varṣe vidhātavyaṃ sthāpanaṃ ca visarjanam’ iti tithitattve devīpurāṇācca tatropavāsādiśirṇayaḥ atropavāsādikamuktaṃ hemādrau bhaviṣye--‘‘evaṃ ca viṃdhyavāsinyāṃ navarātropavāsataḥ| ekabhaktena naktena tathaivāyācitena ca || pūjanīyā janairdevī sthāne sthāne pure pure || gṛhe gṛhe śaktiparairgrā me vane vane || snātaiḥ pramuditairhaṣṭairbrāhmaṇaiḥ kṣatriyairnṛpaiḥ | vaiśyaiḥ śūdrairbhaktiyuktairmlecchairanyaiśca mānavaiḥ’’ ## Linked texts (9) - [Navarātrapradīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.vrata.durgotsava.navaratrapradipa.115_233) — Nandapaṇḍita 1543, Sanskrit - [Vārāhītantra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.general.sakta.varahitantra.29.93) — Sanskrit - [Durgārcanasṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.vrata.durgotsava.durgarcanasrti.1.6) — Sanskrit - [Jayasīṃhakalpadruma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.jayasimhakalpadruma.3.p17.3) — Ratnākara 1688, Sanskrit - [Kālasāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.muhurta.kala.kalasara.5.p117) — Nārāyaṇa Jyotirvit, Sanskrit - [Kālasāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.kala.kalasara.5.p117) — Gadādhara (Pāraskara commentator), Sanskrit - [Durgābhaktitaraṅgiṇī (Vidyāpati)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.vrata.durgotsava.durgabhaktitarangini.1.p67) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit - [Durgābhaktitaraṅgiṇī (Vīrasiṃha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.vrata.durgotsava.durgabhaktitarangini-virasimha.1.p67) — Vīrasiṃha, Sanskrit - [Kālamayūkha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.kala.bhatta.kalamayukha.4.p11) — Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita, Sanskrit --- Source: 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