Agnipurana 194

English (machine translation) 194

Language: English

194.8 — 4 parts

194.1

Agni said: / I shall declare [the rite of] Aśokapūrṇimā: one should worship the mountain and the earth / on the full-moon day in the bright fortnight of Phālguna for a year; one comes to share in worldly enjoyment and liberation.

194.2

On the full-moon day of Kārttika, having performed the setting-free of a bull, one should take food only at night; / one attains the realm of Śiva. This votive observance of the bull is supreme.

194.3

On the new-moon day dedicated to the ancestors, what is given to the ancestors becomes imperishable; / having fasted [on it] for a year and worshipped the ancestors, freed from sin, one attains heaven.

194.4

And on the fifteenth [lunar day] of Māgha, by worshipping the Unborn, one attains everything. / I shall declare the auspicious Sāvitryamāvāsyā, which produces worldly enjoyment and liberation.

194.5

On the fifteenth [lunar day] in Jyaiṣṭha, at the root of a banyan tree, having fasted for three nights, / a woman observing the vow should worship the great chaste wife [Sāvitrī] with the seven grains,

194.6

with sprouted [seeds], neck-cords, and at night with saffron and other [fragrances]. / Having embraced the banyan tree, with dances and songs at dawn,

194.7

one should offer food to a Brahmin with the mantra: 'Homage to Sāvitrī and Satyavat!' / Going home and feeding Brahmins, having eaten oneself, one should dismiss [the goddess]: