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# Matsyapurana 76.8

Matsyapurāṇa 76.8

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [76.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya.76.8)

pratimāsaṃ ca saptamyām ekaikaṃ nāma kīrtayet  
pratipakṣaṃ phalatyāgam etatkurvansamācaret //

> Out of the names mentioned above, one name, turn by turn, should be recited monthly, on the seventh day of the dark or bright fortnight. The desire of obtaining any fruit or merit, by the observance of this vrata, should be renounced by the devotee.—8.  
> — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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## Translations (2)

- [The Matsya Puranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-taluqdar.76.p5) — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-mt.76.8) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [Kṛtyakalpataru](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.krtyakalpataru.20.p439) — Lakṣmīdhara Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Vratakāṇḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.vrata.vratakanda.6.p439) — Lakṣmīdhara, Sanskrit

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