Matsyapurana 76

English (machine translation) 76

Language: English

76.1

Īśvara said:
I shall declare another one as well, named Phalasaptamī, / fasting upon which a man is freed from sin and shares in heaven.

76.2

In the auspicious month of Mārgaśīrṣa, on the seventh day, restrained in his vow, / having fasted on that day and having fashioned a golden lotus,

accompanied by sugar, the knower of duty should give it to a householder brāhmaṇa. / Having made a golden Sun of one pala, / he should give it in the evening twilight, saying: 'May the Sun be pleased with me.'

76.4

Having honoured the brāhmaṇas with devotion, on the eighth day he should feed them milk, / and himself take a meal with fruit, until the seventh day of the dark fortnight.

76.5

Having fasted on that [day] too according to rule, in this very sequence, / having likewise given a golden fruit along with a golden lotus,

76.6

accompanied by a vessel of sugar and endowed with cloth and garlands, / for a year, by that very procedure, on both seventh days,

76.7

having fasted and given [them] in order, he should recite the mantra of Sūrya: / 'May Bhānu, Arka, Ravi, Brahmā, Sūrya, Śakra, Hari, Śiva, / the glorious Vibhāvasu, Tvaṣṭṛ, and Varuṇa be pleased.'

76.8

Each month on the seventh day he should recite one name, / and in each fortnight, while doing this, he should renounce a fruit.

76.9

At the conclusion of the vow he should honour a brāhmaṇa couple with clothes and ornaments; / he should give a pot of sugar along with golden lotus petals [saying]:

76.10

'Just as the desires of your devotees are never in vain, O Ravi, / likewise let there be the attainment of infinite fruit for me across seven births.'

76.11

Whoever observes this Phalasaptamī, which bestows infinite fruit, / his soul purified of all sins, is glorified in the world of Sūrya.

76.12

Whatever [sin], such as drinking liquor, has been committed here or in the other world, / all that goes to destruction for one who observes Phalasaptamī.

76.13

Observing this seventh-day vow, constantly freed from disease, / he rescues twenty-one ancestors and descendants. / Whoever hears or reads it also becomes a sharer in good fortune.

Translations (1)

The Matsya Puranam — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English

Linked texts (1)

Matsyapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit