Garudapurana 1.116
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1.116.1
The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, [chapter] 116.
Brahmā said: / I shall declare, O Vyāsa, the religious observances by which Hari becomes the giver of all; / Hari is worshipped in all months, asterisms, lunar days, and days of the week.
1.116.2
By eating once a day, by eating at night, and by fasting, eating fruits, and the like, / he grants wealth, grain, sons, kingdoms, victory, and the like.
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Vaiśvānara, worshipped on the first lunar day, gives wealth; Kubera gives wealth; / Brahmā worshipped on the first lunar day is to be nourished, and likewise Śrī and the Aśvins.
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On the second, Yama and Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa grant wealth in this world; / on the third, the three deities—Gaurī, the Lord of Obstacles, and Śaṅkara.
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On the fourth, the quadruple emanation; on the fifth, Hari is worshipped; / Kārtikeya and the Sun on the sixth; on the seventh, the Sun grants wealth.
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Durgā on the eighth, and on the ninth the Mothers and the Directions grant wealth; / and on the tenth Yama and the Moon; on the eleventh one should worship the sages.
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And on the twelfth Hari; on the thirteenth Kāma and Maheśvara; / on the fourteenth and fifteenth Brahmā and the ancestors grant wealth.
1.116.8
On the new-moon day, the days of the week beginning with the Sun should be worshipped; / and the asterisms and astrological yogas, when worshipped, bestow all things.
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Thus ends the one hundred and sixteenth chapter, entitled 'The Description of Religious Observances on Lunar Days and Other Times', in the section on conduct, in the first part called the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.
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- Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit