Garudapurana 1.118
Garuḍapurāṇa 1.118
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- 1.118.5 — 1 part
1.118.1
śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 118
brahmovāca /
vrataṃ kaivalyaśamanamakhaṇḍadvādaśīṃ vade /
māgaśīrṣe site pakṣe gavyāśī samupoṣitaḥ //
The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 118 / Brahmā said: / I shall declare the Akhaṇḍadvādaśī observance, which brings final beatitude. / In the bright fortnight of Mārgaśīrṣa, fasting and consuming products of the cow,
1.118.2
dvādaśyāṃ pūjaye dviṣṇuṃ dadyānmāsacatuṣṭayam /
pañcavrīhiyutaṃ pātraṃ viprāyedamudāharet //
One should worship Viṣṇu on the twelfth day; for four months one should give / to a brāhmaṇa a vessel filled with five grains, uttering this:
1.118.3
saptajanmani he viṣṇo yanmayā hi vrataṃ kṛtam /
bhagavaṃstvatprasādena tadakhaṇḍamihāstu me //
‘O Viṣṇu, whatever religious observance has been performed by me across seven births, / by your grace, O Lord, let that become unbroken for me in this world.
1.118.4
yathākhaṇḍaṃ jagatsarvaṃ tvameva puruṣottama /
tathākhilānyakhaṇḍāni vritāni mama santi vai //
Just as the entire universe is unbroken, and you alone are the Supreme Person, / even so let all my religious observances indeed remain unbroken.’
1.118.5
saktupātrāṇi caitrādau śrāvaṇādau ghṛtānvitān /
vratakṛdvatapūrṇastu strīputrasvargabhāgbhavet //
[One should give] vessels of barley meal beginning in Caitra, and filled with ghee beginning in Śrāvaṇa; / completing the religious observance, the performer of the religious observance attains a wife, sons, and heaven.
1.118.5.p1
iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe pūrvakhaṇḍe prathamāṃśākhye ācārakāṇḍe 'khaṇḍadvādaśīvratakathanaṃnāmāṣṭādaśottara śatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ
Thus in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, in the first section named the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part, the hundred and eighteenth chapter, entitled ‘Account of the Akhaṇḍadvādaśī Observance’.
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- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- Viṣṇudharma — Sanskrit