[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt) › 1.118 # Garudapurana 1.118 English (machine translation) 1.118 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.118.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.118.5) — 1 part ### [1.118.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.118.1) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.118.2) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.118.3) ‘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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.118.4) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.118.5) \[One should give\] 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.118.5.p1) 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’. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.118.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.118) · Pramāṇa