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Garudapurana 1.129

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The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — [Chapter] 129
Brahmā said:
Now I shall declare the observances beginning with the first lunar day; listen, Vyāsa:
One goes to the abode of fire; this is known as the Śikhi observance.

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Eating a single meal on the first lunar day, upon completion one gives a brown cow.
Beginning in Caitra and the like, one should perform the worship of Brahmā according to rule,
with offerings of perfume and flowers, gifts, garlands, and the like that are pleasing,

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Together with oblations into fire; one should worship the god and obtain all desires.
In Kārttika on the bright eighth, subsisting on flowers for a year,

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A person who gives flowers and the like becomes endowed with beauty by virtue of [his] beauty.
On the third lunar day of the dark fortnight in Śrāvaṇa, Śrīdhara [and] Śrī

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One should worship in the Aśūnyaśayyā rite, and give fruit to a twice-born.
Having given a bed, one should pray: "Homage to Śrīdhara, homage to Śrī."

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One should also worship Umā, Śiva, and the fire-god on the third lunar day;
sacrificial food should be given as an offering, and likewise damanaka flowers.

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Beginning in Caitra, one obtains the fruit; this was declared to me by Umā.
He who avoids salt on the third lunar day beginning with Phālguna,

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Upon completion should give a bed and a house endowed with utensils,
having worshipped a twice-born couple, saying, "May Bhavānī be pleased."

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He dwells perpetually in the world of Gaurī; [this rite] is supreme and brings good fortune:
Gaurī, Kālī, Umā, Bhadrā, Durgā, Kānti, Sarasvatī,

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Maṅgalā, Vaiṣṇavī, Lakṣmī, Śivā, and Nārāyaṇī in order.
Beginning on the third lunar day of Mārgaśīrṣa, one attains non-separation [from a spouse] and the like.

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On the bright fourth beginning in Māgha, fasting, devoted to the observance,
having given sesame seeds to a twice-born, he himself consumes sesame water.

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The completion is in two years, and one attains freedom from obstacles and the like.
"Gaḥ svāhā" is this basic mantra, joined with the praṇava [Om].

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"Glaiṃ glāṃ" in the heart; "gāṃ gīṃ hūṃ hrīṃ hrīṃ" the head and crest;
"gūṃ" the armour; "goṃ" and "gaiṃ" the eye; and "goṃ" in invocation and the like.

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"Āgaccholka, Gandholka, Puṣpolka, Dhūpolkaka,
Dīpolka, Maholka"; then the oblation and dismissal,

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And to Siddholka. The Gāyatrī and the placement on the thumbs and other fingers are proclaimed:
"Om, may we know the Large-eared One; let us meditate on the Curved-trunk One; may that Tusked One impel us."

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One should worship with sesame-seed oblations into fire; and these troops are likewise to be worshipped:
"Svāhā to the Gaṇa, to Gaṇapati, and to Kūṣmāṇḍaka,

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To Amogholka, to the Single-tusked One, to Him who has the form of the Destroyer of Tripura!
Om, homage to the Dark-toothed One, of terrifying mouth, shaking in battle!"

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Ending with svāhā to the Lotus-tusked One. The seal is indeed dancing before the Gaṇa,
clapping hands, and laughing; the fruit will be good fortune and the like.

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Likewise, one should worship the Gaṇa on the bright fourth in Mārgaśīrṣa;
for a year [he worships, and] obtains knowledge, fortune, fame, long life, and lineage of sons.

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Fasting on a Monday on the fourth, one should worship the Gaṇa;
reciting [mantras], offering into fire, and remembering [him], he attains knowledge, heaven, and liberation.

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He who worships on the bright fourth with pieces of laḍḍuka and modaka sweets,
by worshipping the Lord of Obstacles, obtains all desires and good fortune,

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Sons, and the like; with damanaka flowers, [this is] also the fourth named Damanā.
With "Āṃ homage to Gaṇapati," ending in the dative, one should worship the Gaṇa.

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In any month whatsoever, one should offer into fire, mutter, or remember [him];
one obtains all desires, and the destruction of all obstacles.

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One should worship Vināyaka, beginning with an earthen image, with these names;
he also attains a good destination, as well as heaven, liberation, and happiness:

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"Gaṇapūjya, Vakratuṇḍa, Ekadaṃṣṭrin, Tryambaka,
Nīlagrīva, Lambodara, Vikaṭa, Vighnarājaka,

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Dhūmravarṇa, Bhālacandra; the tenth is Vināyaka;
Gaṇapati, Hastimukha." One should worship the Gaṇa in a twelve-spoked circle.

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Individually and together, the wise man will obtain all desires.
In Śrāvaṇa, Āśvina, Bhādra, and on the auspicious fifth in Kārttika,

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Vāsuki, Takṣaka, Kālīya, Maṇibhadraka,
Airāvata, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Karkoṭaka, and Dhanañjaya:

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Bathed with ghee and the like, these [serpent gods grant] long life, health, and prosperity:
Ananta, Vāsuki, Śaṅkha, Padma, and Kambala.

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And likewise the nāga Karkoṭaka, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, and Śaṅkhaka,
Kālīya, Takṣaka, and Piṅgala, month after month.

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One who worships the eight nāgas in the bright fortnight of Bhādrapada attains liberation and goes to heaven.
They should be drawn on both sides of the door, and worshipped in the bright fortnight of Śrāvaṇa.

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On the fifth day one should worship the nāgas, the great serpents beginning with Ananta;
milk and clarified butter should be offered as food offerings, destroying all poison.
The nāgas grant fearlessness; this fifth day delivers from snakebites.

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Thus ends the one hundred twenty-ninth chapter in the Ācārakāṇḍa, entitled "The Religious Observance of the Fifth Day of Deliverance from Bites," belonging to the first part in the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.

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