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# Garudapurana 1.130

Garuḍapurāṇa 1.130

- **Language:** Sanskrit

## Contents

- [1.130.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.130.8) — 2 parts

### [1.130.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.130.1)

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 130  
brahmovāca /  
evaṃ bhādrapade māsi kārtikeyaṃ prapūyet /  
snānadānādikaṃ sarvamasyāmakṣayyamucyate //

> The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, chapter 130.  
> Brahmā said:  
> In the same manner, one should worship Kārtikeya in the month of Bhādrapada;  
> bathing, making gifts, and all such acts performed on this day are said to yield imperishable fruit.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.130.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.130.2)

saptamyāṃ prāśayeccapi bhojyaṃ viprānraviṃ yajet /  
oṃ khakholkāyamṛtatvaṃ (tantaṃ) priyasaṅgamo bhava sada svāhā //

> On the seventh day one should also partake of food, feed the brāhmaṇas, and worship the Sun:  
> "Om, unto Khakholka, may there always be immortality, union with beloved ones, svāhā!"  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.130.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.130.3)

aṣṭamyāṃ pāraṇaṃ kuryānmarīcaṃ prāśya svargabhāk  
saptamyāṃ niyataḥ snātvā pūjayitvā divākaram //

> On the eighth day one should break the fast, eating black pepper, and partake of heaven.  
> Having bathed with restrained senses on the seventh day and having worshipped the Sun,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.130.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.130.4)

dadyātphalāni viprebhyo mārtaṇḍaḥ prīyatāmiti /  
kharjūraṃ nārikelaṃ vā prāśayenmātuluṅgakam //

> one should give fruits to brāhmaṇas, saying, "May Mārtaṇḍa be pleased!"  
> One should partake of a date, a coconut, or a citron, \[praying:\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.130.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.130.5)

sarve bhavantu saphalā mama kāmāḥ samantataḥ /  
(iti phalasaptamī)  
saṃpūjya devaṃ saptamyāṃ pāyasenātha bhojayet //

> "May all my desires everywhere bear fruit!"  
> (Thus ends the Phalasaptamī).  
> Having worshipped the deity on the seventh day, one should then feed \[brāhmaṇas\] with milk-rice.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.130.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.130.6)

viprāṃśca dakṣiṇāṃ dattvā svayaṃ cātha payaḥ pibet /  
bhakṣyaṃ coṣyaṃ tathā lehyaṃ odanaṃ ceti kīrtitam //

> And having given a sacrificial fee to the brāhmaṇas, one should drink milk oneself.  
> Solid food, food to be sucked, food to be licked, and boiled rice are proclaimed:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.130.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.130.7)

dhanaputrādikāmastu tyajedetadanodanaḥ  
vāyvāśī vijayetkṣucca kuryādvijayasaptamīm /  
adyādarkaṃ ca kāmecchurupavāse tarenmadam //

> one desiring wealth, sons, and the like, avoiding boiled rice, should abandon these.  
> Subsisting on air, conquering hunger, one should observe the Vijayasaptamī.  
> Desiring the object of one's wish, one should eat the \[food sacred to the\] Sun today; by fasting, one overcomes arrogance.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.130.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.130.8)

godhūmamāṣayavaṣaṣṭikakāṃsyapātraṃ pāṣāṇapiṣṭamadhumaiṣunamadyamāṃsam /  
abhyañjanāñjanatilāṃśca vivarjayedyaḥ tasyeṣitaṃ bhavati saptasu saptamīṣu //

> Wheat, black gram, barley, ṣaṣṭika-rice, bronze vessels, stone-ground flour, honey, sexual intercourse, wine, meat,  
> inunction, collyrium, and sesame seeds—whoever avoids these on seven seventh days attains whatever he desires.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.130.8.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.130.8.p1)

(iti vijayasaptamīvratam) /

> (Thus ends the Vijayasaptamī religious observance.)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.130.8.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.130.8.p2)

iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe pūrvakhaṇḍe prathamāṃśākhye ācārakāṇḍe saptamīvratanirūpaṇaṃ nāma triṃśottaraśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

> Thus ends the one hundred thirtieth chapter in the Ācārakāṇḍa, entitled "Determination of the Seventh-Day Observance," belonging to the first part in the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.130.1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [Vratakhaṇḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.vrata.vratakhanda.107.1.7) — Hemādri, Sanskrit
- [Vratakāṇḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.vrata.vratakanda.6.p423) — Lakṣmīdhara, Sanskrit

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