Garudapurana 1.125
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- 1.125.7 — 1 part
1.125.1
The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 125 / Pitāmaha said: / King Māndhātā became a universal monarch by fasting on the eleventh lunar day. / One should not eat on the eleventh day in either of the two fortnights.
1.125.2
An eleventh lunar day mixed with the tenth was fasted by Gāndhārī; / her hundred sons were lost, therefore one should avoid it.
1.125.3
Where the eleventh day meets the twelfth, there Hari is present; / where the eleventh day meets the tenth, there an asura is present. / When doubt arises through the conflict of many statements,
1.125.4
Then the twelfth lunar day is to be accepted, and breaking the fast takes place on the thirteenth. / Even if the eleventh day lasts for only a minute fraction, the twelfth day is likewise to be fasted.
1.125.5
The eleventh, the twelfth, and especially the thirteenth: / that lunar day combining the three is to be observed as auspicious and destroying all sins.
1.125.6
O twice-born one, fasting on the eleventh day, or on the twelfth, / one should indeed observe the threefold combination, but never [a day] joined with the tenth.
1.125.7
Keeping vigil at night, listening to the Purāṇas, / and worshipping Gadādhara, King Rukmāṅgada attained liberation by fasting on both eleventh days, as did others [by performing] the observance of the eleventh lunar day.
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Thus ends the one hundred and twenty-fifth 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.
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- Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit