[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Padmapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma) › 3.57 # Padmapurana 3.57: saptapaṃcāśattamo'dhyāyaḥ Padmapurāṇa 3.57 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [3.57.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.78) — 1 part ### saptapaṃcāśattamo'dhyāyaḥ ### [3.57.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.1) vyāsauvācaathātaḥsaṃpravakṣyāmidānadharmmamanuttamam brahmaṇābhihitaṃpūrvamṛṣīṇāṃbrahmavādinām ### [3.57.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.2) arthānāmucitaṃpātreśraddhayāpratipādanam dānamityabhinirdiṣṭaṃbhuktimuktiphalapradam ### [3.57.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.3) yodadātiviśiṣṭebhyaḥśraddhayāparayāyutaḥ tadvaidattamahaṃmanyeśeṣaṃkasyāpirakṣati ### [3.57.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.4) nityaṃnaimittikaṃkāmyaṃtrividhaṃdānamucyate caturthaṃvimalaṃproktaṃsarvadānottamottamam ### [3.57.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.5) ahanyahaniyatiṃkaciddīyatenupakāriṇe anuddiśyaphalaṃtasmādbrāhmaṇāyatunityakam ### [3.57.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.6) yattupāpopaśāṃtyarthaṃdīyateviduṣāṃkare naimittikaṃtaduddiṣṭaṃdānaṃsadbhiranuttamam ### [3.57.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.7) apatyavijayaiśvaryasukhārthaṃyatpradīyate dānaṃtatkāmyamākhyātamṛṣibhirdharmaciṃtakaiḥ ### [3.57.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.8) yadīśvarasyaprītyarthaṃbrahmavitsupradīyate cetasādharmayuktenadānaṃtadvimalaṃśivam ### [3.57.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.9) dānadharmaṃniṣevetapātramāsādyaśaktitaḥ upāsyatetutatpātraṃyattārayatisarvataḥ ### [3.57.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.10) kuṭuṃbabhuktivasanāddeyaṃyadatiricyate anyathādīyateyadvainataddānaṃphalapradam ### [3.57.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.11) śrotriyāyakulīnāyavinītāyatapasvine vratasthāyadaridrāyapradeyaṃbhaktipūrvakam ### [3.57.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.12) yastudadyānmahīṃbhaktyābrāhmaṇāyāhitāgnaye sayātiparamaṃsthānaṃyatragatvānaśocati ### [3.57.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.13) ikṣubhiḥsaṃyutāṃbhūmiṃyavagodhūmaśālinīm dadātivedaviduṣeyaḥsabhūyonajāyate ### [3.57.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.14) gocarmamātrāmapivāyobhūmiṃsaṃprayacchati brāhmaṇāyadaridrāyasarvapāpaiḥpramucyate ### [3.57.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.15) bhūmidānātparaṃdānaṃvidyatenehakiṃcana annadānaṃtenatulyaṃvidyādānaṃtatodhikam ### [3.57.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.16) yobrāhmaṇāyaśāṃtāyaśucayedharmaśīline dadātividyāṃvidhinābrahmalokemahīyate ### [3.57.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.17) dadyādaharahaḥsvarṇaṃśraddhayābrahmacāriṇe sarvapāpavinirmuktobrahmaṇaḥsthānamāpnuyāt ### [3.57.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.18) gṛhasthāyānnadānenaphalamāpnotimānavaḥ annamevāsyadātavyaṃdatvāpnotiparāṃgatim ### [3.57.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.19) vaiśākhyāṃpūrṇamāsyāṃtubrāhmaṇānsaptapaṃcavā upoṣyavidhināśāṃtaḥśuciḥprayatamānasaḥ ### [3.57.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.20) pūjayitvātilaiḥkṛṣṇairmadhunācaviśeṣataḥ prīyatāṃdharmarājetiyadāmanasivarttate ### [3.57.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.21) yāvajjīvaṃtuyatpāpaṃtatkṣaṇādevanaśyati kṛṣṇājinetilānkṛtvāhiraṇyaṃmadhusarpiṣī ### [3.57.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.22) dadātiyastuviprāyasarvaṃtaratiduṣkṛtam ghṛtānnamudakuṃbhaṃcavaiśākhyāṃtuviśeṣataḥ ### [3.57.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.23) nirddiśyadharmarājāyaviprebhyomucyatebhayāt suvarṇatilayuktaistubrāhmaṇānsaptapaṃcavā ### [3.57.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.24) tarpayedudapātraistubrahmahatyāṃvyapohati māghamāsetamisretudvādaśyāṃsamupoṣitaḥ ### [3.57.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.25) śuklāṃbaradharaḥkṛṣṇaistilairhutvāhutāśanam pradadyādbrāhmaṇebhyastutilānevasamāhitaḥ ### [3.57.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.26) janmaprabhṛtiyatpāpaṃsarvaṃtarativaidvijaḥ amāvāsyāmanuprāpyabrāhmaṇāyatapasvine ### [3.57.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.27) yatiṃkaciddevadeveśaṃdadyāccoddiśyakeśavam prīyatāmīśvaroviṣṇurhṛṣīkeśaḥsanātanaḥ ### [3.57.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.28) saptajanmakṛtaṃpāpaṃtatkṣaṇādevanaśyati yastukṛṣṇacaturdaśyāṃsnātvādevaṃpinākinam ### [3.57.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.29) ārādhayeddvijamukhenatasyāstipunarbhavaḥ kṛṣṇāṣṭamyāṃviśeṣeṇadhārmikāyadvijātaye ### [3.57.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.30) snātvābhyarcyayathānyāyaṃpādaprakṣālanādibhiḥ prīyatāṃmemahādevodadyāddravyaṃsvakīyakam ### [3.57.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.31) sarvapāpavinirmuktaḥprāpnotiparamāṃgatim dvijaiḥkṛṣṇacaturdaśyāṃkṛṣṇāṣṭamyāṃviśeṣataḥ ### [3.57.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.32) amāvāsyāṃtathābhaktaiḥpūjanīyastrivikramaḥ ekādaśyāṃnirāhārodvādaśyāṃpuruṣottamam ### [3.57.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.33) arcayedbrāhmaṇamukhesagacchetparamaṃpadam eṣātithirvaiṣṇavīsyāddvādaśīśuklapakṣataḥ ### [3.57.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.34) tasyāmārādhayeddevaṃprayatnenajanārdanam yatiṃkaciddevamīśānamuddiśyabrāhmaṇeśucau ### [3.57.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.35) dīyateviṣṇumevāpitadanaṃtaphalaṃsmṛtam yohiyāṃdevatāmicchetsamārādhayituṃnaraḥ ### [3.57.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.36) brāhmaṇānpūjayedyatnātsatasyāstoṣayettataḥ dvijānāṃvapurāsthāyanityaṃtiṣṭhaṃtidevatāḥ ### [3.57.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.37) pūjyaṃtebrāhmaṇālābhepratimādiṣutaiḥkvacit pratimādiṣuyatnenatasmātphalamabhīpsatā ### [3.57.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.38) dvijeṣudevatānityaṃpūjanīyāviśeṣataḥ vibhūtikāmaḥsatataṃpūjayeddhipuraṃdaram ### [3.57.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.39) brahmavarcasakāmastubrahmāṇaṃjñānakāmukaḥ ārogyakāmotharaviṃdhanakāmohutāśanam ### [3.57.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.40) karmmaṇāṃsiddhikāmastupūjayedvaivināyakam bhogakāmastuśaśinaṃbalakāmaḥsamīraṇam ### [3.57.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.41) mumukṣuḥsarvasaṃsārātprayatnenārcayeddharim yastuyogaṃtathāmokṣamanvicche'jjñānamaiśvaram ### [3.57.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.42) arcayetavirūpākṣaṃprayatnenasureśvaram yevāṃcchaṃtimahābhogānjñānānicamaheśvaram ### [3.57.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.43) tepūjayaṃtibhūteśaṃkeśavaṃcāpibhoginaḥ vāridastṛptimāpnotijaladānaṃtatodhikam ### [3.57.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.44) tailapradaḥprajāmiṣṭāṃdīpadaścakṣuruttamam bhūmidaḥsarvamāpnotidīrghamāyurhiraṇyadaḥ ### [3.57.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.45) gṛhadātāgryaveśmānirūpyadorūpamuttamam vāsodaścaṃdrasālokyamaśvadoyānamuttamam ### [3.57.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.46) annadātāśriyaṃsveṣṭāṃgodobrāhmaṇaviṣṭapam yānaśayyāpradobhāryyāmaiśvaryamabhayapradaḥ ### [3.57.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.47) dhānyadaḥśāśvataṃsaukhyaṃbrahmadobrahmaśāśvatam dhānyānyapiyathāśaktivipreṣupratipādayet ### [3.57.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.48) vedavidyāviśiṣṭeṣupretyasvargaṃsamaśnute gavāṃcānnapradānenasarvapāpaiḥpramucyate ### [3.57.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.49) iṃdhanānāṃpradānenadīptāgnirjāyatenaraḥ phalamūlānipānāniśākānivividhānica ### [3.57.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.50) pradadyādbrāhmaṇebhyastumudāyuktaḥsadābhavet auṣadhaṃsnehamāhāraṃrogiṇorogaśāṃtaye ### [3.57.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.51) dadānorogarahitaḥsukhīdīrghāyurevaca asipatravanaṃmārgaṃkṣuradhārāsamanvitam ### [3.57.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.52) tīkṣṇatāpaṃcataratichatropānatpradonaraḥ yadyadiṣṭatamaṃlokeyaccāsyāpekṣitaṃgṛhe ### [3.57.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.53) tattadguṇavatedeyaṃtadevākṣayamicchatā ayaneviṣuvecaivagrahaṇecaṃdrasūryayoḥ ### [3.57.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.54) saṃkrāṃtyādiṣukāleṣudattaṃbhavaticākṣayam prayāgādiṣutīrtheṣupuṇyeṣvāyataneṣuca ### [3.57.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.55) datvācākṣayamāpnotinadīprasravaṇeṣuca dānadharmātparodharmobhūtānāṃnehavidyate ### [3.57.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.56) tasmādviprāyadātavyaṃśrotriyāyadvijātibhiḥ svargāyabhūtikāmenatathāpāpopaśāṃtaye ### [3.57.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.57) mumukṣuṇātudātavyaṃbrāhmaṇebhyastathānvaham dīyamānaṃtuyomohādgoviprāgnisureṣuca ### [3.57.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.58) nivārayatyadharmātmātiryagyoniṃvrajetasaḥ yastudravyārjanaṃkṛtvānārcayedbrāhmaṇānsurān ### [3.57.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.59) sarvasvamapahṛtyainaṃrājārāṣṭrātpravāsayet yastudurbhikṣavelāyāmannādyaṃnaprayacchati ### [3.57.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.60) mriyamāṇeṣuvipreṣubrāhmaṇaḥsatugarhitaḥ natasmātpratigṛhṇīyuḥnavaseyuścatenahi ### [3.57.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.61) ājñāyitvāsvakādrāṣṭrādrājātaṃvipravāsayet paścātsatodadātīhasvadravyaṃdharmasādhanam ### [3.57.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.62) sapūrvābhyadhikaḥpāpīnarakepacyatenaraḥ svādhyāyavaṃtoyeviprāvidyāvaṃtojiteṃdriyāḥ ### [3.57.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.63) satyasaṃyamasaṃyuktāstebhyodadyāddvijottamāḥ prabhuktamapividvāṃsaṃdhārmikaṃbhojayeddvijam ### [3.57.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.64) nacamūrkhamavṛttasthaṃdaśarātramupoṣitam sannikṛṣṭamatikramyaśrotriyaṃyaḥprayacchati ### [3.57.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.65) satenakarmaṇāpāpīdahatyāsaptamaṃkulam yadisyādadhikovipraḥśīlavidyādibhiḥsvayam ### [3.57.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.66) tasmaiyatnenadātavyamatikramyacasannidhim yorcitaṃpratigṛhṇīyāddadyādarcitamevaca ### [3.57.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.67) tāvubhaugacchataḥsvargaṃnarakaṃtuviparyaye navāryapiprayacchetanāstikehaitukepica ### [3.57.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.68) napākhaṃḍeṣusarveṣunāvedavididharmavit rūpyaṃcaivahiraṇyaṃcagāmaśvaṃpṛthivīṃtilān ### [3.57.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.69) avidvānpratigṛhṇīyādbhasmībhavatikāṣṭhavat dvijātibhyodhanaṃlipsetpraśastebhyodvijotamaḥ ### [3.57.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.70) apirājanyavaiśyābhyāṃnatuśūdrātkathaṃcana vṛttisaṃkocamanvicchennehetadhanavistaram ### [3.57.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.71) dhanalobheprasaktastubrāhmaṇyādevahīyate vedānadhītyasakalānyajñāṃścāvāpyasarvaśaḥ ### [3.57.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.72) natāṃgatimavāpnotisaṃtoṣādyāmavāpnuyāt pratigraharucirnasyācchūdrānnatusamāharet ### [3.57.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.73) sthityarthādadhikaṃgṛhṇanbrāhmaṇoyātyadhogatim yastuyātinasaṃtoṣaṃnasasvargasyabhājanam ### [3.57.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.74) udvejayatibhūtāniyathācaurastathaivasaḥ guruṃbhṛtyāṃścojjihīrṣustarpayandevatātithīn ### [3.57.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.75) sarvataḥpratigṛhṇīyānnatutṛpyetsvayaṃtataḥ evaṃgṛhasthoyuktātmādevatātithipūjakaḥ ### [3.57.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.76) vartamānaḥsaṃyatātmāyātitatparamaṃpadam putreṣubhāryāṃnikṣipyagatvāraṇyaṃtutattvavit ### [3.57.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.77) ekākīvicarennityamudāsīnaḥsamāhitaḥ eṣavaḥkathitodharmmogṛhasthānāṃdvijottamāḥ jñātvātutiṣṭhenniyataṃtathānuṣṭhāpayeddvijān ### [3.57.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.78) itidevamanādimekamīśaṃgṛhadharmeṇasamarcayedajasram samatītyasasarvabhūtayoniṃprakṛtiṃyātiparaṃnayātijanma ### [3.57.78.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57.78.p1) iti śrīpādmemahāpurāṇesvargakhaṃḍegṛhasthadharmanirṇayo nāmasaptapaṃcāśattamo'dhyāyaḥ ## Linked texts (8) - [Kūrmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.kurma.2.26.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Śaktisaṅgamatantra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.general.sakta.saktisangama.3.2.18) — Sanskrit - [Dānasāgara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.danasagara.72.12) — Ballālasena, Sanskrit - [Smṛtiratnākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.smrtiratnakara.2.p110.1) — Veṅkaṭanātha, Sanskrit - [Smṛtiratnākara (Viṭṭhalanātha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.smrtiratnakara-vitthala.2.p110.1) — Viṭṭhalanātha, Sanskrit - [Dānavākyāvali (Vidyāpati)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.dana.danavakyavali-vidyapati.p15.12) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit - [Smṛticandrikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrticandrika.47.p78) — Devaṇṇabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit - [Smṛtiviveka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrtiviveka.16.38) — Śūlapāṇi, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.3.57) · Pramāṇa