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Garudapurana 1.117

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1.117.1

The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, [chapter] 117.
Brahmā said: / In Mārgaśīrṣa, in the bright fortnight, O Vyāsa, on the thirteenth of Anaṅga, / one should chew a tooth-stick made of jasmine and worship Śiva with dhatura blossoms.

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Offering the oblation saying, 'To Anaṅga', and tasting honey, then in Pauṣa / one should worship the Lord of Yoga with bael leaves; a tooth-stick made of kadamba, / sandal-paste and the like, and a food-offering of kṛsara and other dishes [should be given].

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In Māgha, having worshipped the Lord of Dancers with jasmine flowers and a garland of pearls, / with a plakṣa tooth-stick and a food-offering of fried cakes, O sage;

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And in Phālguna, one should worship the Lord of Heroes with marjoram blossoms; / and sugar, vegetables, and cakes [for offerings], and a tooth-cleaner made of mango;

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In Caitra, one should worship the Well-Formed One, taste camphor at night, / chew a tooth-cleaner made of aṭa, and offer a cake as a food-offering;

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In Vaiśākha, the worship of Śambhu is with marjoram and aśoka flowers; / for the Great-Formed One, the food-offering is molasses-rice and fine cloth;

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One should taste [honey] and offer a tooth-stick and nutmeg; / in Jyeṣṭha, one should worship Pradyumna with campaka flowers and bite on a [tooth-stick] from the bael tree;

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[…] / and an agallochum tooth-stick, and one should worship him with apāmārga flowers.

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In Śrāvaṇa, [one should offer] a karavīra flower to Śambhu, bearer of the trident, / consuming fragrances, with ghee and other offerings, purifying oneself with a karavīra twig.

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In Bhādrapada, one should worship Sadyojāta with bakula flowers and cakes; / consuming gāndharvā, [one should worship] Madanaka; and in Āśvina, the Lord of Gods,

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With campaka flowers, wearing gold, offering sweetmeats, / using a khadira tooth-stick; and in Kārtika, one should worship Rudra.

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Using a badarī tooth-stick, consuming madana [leaves] on the tenth day, / offering milk and vegetables, at the year's end one should worship Śiva with lotuses.

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To Anaṅga, joined with Rati, standing upon a golden mandala, / with fragrances and other offerings, one should offer ten thousand oblations of sesame, paddy, and the like.

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Keeping vigil with song and instrumental music, having worshipped in the morning, one should present / to a twice-born a bed, a vessel, an umbrella, clothing, and two sandals.

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With devotion one should feed a cow and a twice-born; a person [then] has accomplished his duty. / This concluding rite is prescribed in this manner in all religious observances, / and its fruit is prosperity, sons, health, good fortune, and heaven.

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Thus in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, in the first section named the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part, the hundred and seventeenth chapter, entitled ‘The Religious Observance of Anaṅgatrayodaśī’.

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