Matsyapurana 75

English (machine translation) 75

Language: English

75.1

Īśvara said:
In the same way, I shall declare the Viśokasaptamī, O best of sages, / fasting upon which a man never experiences grief in this world.

In the month of Māgha, having bathed with black sesame on the sixth day of the bright fortnight, / having taken a meal of kṛsara preceded by cleaning the teeth, / having undertaken the vow of fasting, he should remain celibate at night.

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Then, having arisen at dawn, pure, having performed his bath and muttered prayers, / and having fashioned a golden lotus, he should worship with "To Arka," / using red karavīra flowers and a pair of red garments, [saying:]

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"Just as the world is always rendered sorrowless by you alone, O Āditya, / so may sorrowlessness be mine, and devotion to you in every birth."

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Having thus worshiped, on the sixth day he should honor the twice-born with devotion; / having slept after sipping cow's urine, and rising and performing his daily rites,

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having honored the vipras with food, he should present that pair of garments and the lotus, / together with a vessel of jaggery, to a brāhmaṇa.

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Having eaten without oil and salt on the seventh day, observing silence, / one desiring prosperity should then listen to the Purāṇa.

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Having performed all this by this rule in both fortnights, / until the seventh day of the bright fortnight of Māgha returns,

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at the end of the observance, he should give a water jar accompanied by a golden lotus, / a bed equipped with accessories, and a milch kapilā cow.

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The one who performs Viśokasaptamī according to this rule, / free from deceit regarding wealth, goes to the supreme state.

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As long as one hundred crore of thousands of births elapse, / for so long he encounters no grief, being free from disease and misfortune.

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Whatever desire he asks for, that he obtains in abundance; / but he who performs it free of desire attains the supreme Brahman.

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Whoever reads or hears of the seventh called Viśokā, / he also attains the world of Indra and never becomes sorrowful.

Translations (1)

The Matsya Puranam — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English

Linked texts (1)

Matsyapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit