Garudapurana 1.127

The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 127 / Brahmā said: / Formerly, in the bright fortnight of the month of Māgha, joined with the constellation of the Sun, / a certain eleventh lunar day was fasted by Bhīma.

Having performed this wonderful religious observance, he became free from debt to the ancestors. / Celebrated as Bhīmadvādaśī, it increases merit for living beings.

Even without the lunar mansion, it destroys the killing of a brahmin and other [sins]; / it completely destroys great sin, just as an evil king ruins his realm,

Just as a bad son ruins a family, a bad wife ruins a husband, / dharma destroys adharma, and a bad minister ruins a king,

Just as knowledge is ruined by ignorance, purity by impurity, / faith by unfaith, and truth by falsehoods,

Just as frost destroys heat, and an accumulation of wealth destroys misfortune, / just as charity is ruined by boastfulness, and ascetic heat by pride,

Just as a son is ruined by lack of discipline, cows by straying far, / peace by anger, and wealth by lack of growth,

Just as learning is obtained through knowledge, and the fruit through desirelessness, / even so this auspicious twelfth day has been declared for the destruction of sin.

The killing of a brahmin, drinking liquor, theft, and violation of the Guru's bed: / [all these sins], even occurring simultaneously, are destroyed at Tripuṣkara.

Neither the region of Naimiṣa, nor Kurukṣetra, nor Prabhāsa, / nor the Kālindī, Yamunā, Gaṅgā, nor Sarasvatī,

Nor indeed all sacred places are equal to the eleventh lunar day. / No charity, no recitation of mantras, no fire offering, nor any other good deed anywhere [equals it].

On the one side is the gift of the earth, on the other is the day of Hari; / yet even more meritorious than that is this excellent eleventh lunar day.

On this [day], having fashioned the Varāha Puruṣa as a golden deity, / placing it on top of a water pot in a new vessel, indeed in a copper vessel

Filled with all seeds, O brahmins, and covered with white cloth, / having performed the worship with effort using golden lamps and other offerings:

'Obeisance to Varāha' [worshipping] the two feet; 'Obeisance to the Boar-formed' the waist; / the navel with 'To the one with a deep roar'; the chest with 'To the bearer of the Śrīvatsa';

The arm with 'To the thousand-headed one'; the neck with 'To the Lord of all'; / the face is to be worshipped with 'To the Self of all'; and the forehead with 'To the source of existence';

The hair of the discus-bearing God is to be worshipped with 'To the one of a hundred rays'. / Having worshipped according to rule and kept vigil at night,

And listened to the Purāṇa that sets forth the greatness of the God, / having given that in the morning to an auspicious brahmin who is a petitioner,

And having offered all the paraphernalia along with the golden boar, / one should then break the fast, eating once and not excessively satiated.

Having done this, a wise person does not suck at a breast again. / Fasting on the meritorious eleventh day, one is indeed freed from the three debts; / having performed all the observances and rites, one attains the desires of one's heart.

Thus ends the one hundred and twenty-seventh chapter, named 'The Greatness of the Eleventh Lunar Day', in the Ritual Section called the First Part of the First Section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.