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# Padmapurana 4.13: trayodaśo'dhyāyaḥ

Padmapurāṇa 4.13

- **Language:** Sanskrit

## Contents

- [4.13.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.85) — 1 part

### trayodaśo'dhyāyaḥ

### [4.13.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.1)

śaunakauvācakṛṣṇajanmāṣṭamīsūtatasyāmāhātmyamuttamam  
kathayasvamahāprājñacoddharasvamahārṇavāt

### [4.13.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.2)

sūtauvācakṛṣṇajanmāṣṭamīṃbrahmanbhaktyākarotiyonaraḥ  
aṃteviṣṇupuraṃyātikulakoṭiyutodvija

### [4.13.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.3)

aṣṭamībudhavārecasomecaivadvijottama  
rohiṇīṛkṣasaṃyuktākulakoṭivimuktidā

### [4.13.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.4)

mahāpātakasaṃyuktaḥkarotivratamuttamam  
sarvapāpavinirmuktaścāṃteyātiharergṛham

### [4.13.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.5)

kṛṣṇajanmāṣṭamīṃbrahmannakarotinarādhamaḥ  
ihaduḥkhamavāpnotisapretyanarakaṃvrajet

### [4.13.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.6)

nakaroticayānārīkṛṣṇajanmāṣṭamīvratam  
varṣevarṣetusāmūḍhānarakaṃyātidāruṇam

### [4.13.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.7)

janmāṣṭamīdineyovainaro'śnātivimūḍhadhīḥ  
mahānarakamaśnātisatyaṃsatyaṃvadāmyaham

### [4.13.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.8)

dilīpenapurāpṛṣṭovasiṣṭhomunisattamaḥ  
tacchṛṇuṣvamahāprājñasarvapātakanāśanam

### [4.13.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.9)

dilīpauvācabhādremāsyasitāṣṭamyāṃyasyāṃjātojanārddanaḥ  
tadahaṃśrotumicchāmikathayasvamahāmune

### [4.13.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.10)

kathaṃvābhagavānjātaḥśaṃkhacakragadādharaḥ  
devakījaṭhareviṣṇuḥkiṃkartuṃkenahetunā

### [4.13.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.11)

vasiṣṭhauvācaśṛṇurājanpravakṣyāmikasmājjātojanārddanaḥ  
pṛthivyāṃtridivaṃtyaktvābhavatekathayāmyaham

### [4.13.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.12)

purāvasuṃdharāhyāsītkaṃsādinṛpapīḍitā  
svādhikārapramattenakaṃsadūtenatāḍitā

### [4.13.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.13)

kraṃdatīkraṃdatīsātuyayaughūrṇitalocanā  
yatratiṣṭhatideveśaumākāṃtovṛṣadhvajaḥ

### [4.13.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.14)

kaṃsenatāḍitānāthaititasmainiveditum  
bāṣpavārīṇivarṣaṃtivivarṇāsāvimānitā

### [4.13.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.15)

kraṃdaṃtīṃtāṃsamālokyakopenasphuritādharaḥ  
umayāsahitaḥsarvairdevavṛṃdairanuvrataḥ

### [4.13.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.16)

ājagāmamahādevovidhātṛbhavanaṃruṣā  
gatvācovācabrahmāṇaṃkaṃsadhvaṃsanahetave

### [4.13.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.17)

upāyaḥsṛjyatāṃbrahmanbhavatāviṣṇunāsaha  
eśvaraṃtadvacaḥśrutvāgaṃtuṃprāhakṛtātmabhūḥ

### [4.13.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.18)

kṣīrodeyatravaikuṃṭhaḥsupto'stibhujagopari  
haṃsapṛṣṭhaṃsamāruhyahareraṃtikamāyayau

### [4.13.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.19)

tatragatvācataṃdhātādevavṛṃdairharādibhiḥ  
saṃyuktaḥstūyatevāgbhiḥkomalaṃvāgvidāṃvaraḥ

### [4.13.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.20)

namaḥkamalanetrāyaharayeparamātmane  
jagataḥpālayitrecalakṣmīkāṃtanamo'stute

### [4.13.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.21)

ititebhyaḥstutiṃśrutvāpratyuvācajanārddanaḥ  
devānkliṣṭamukhānsarvānbhavadbhirāgataṃkatham

### [4.13.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.22)

brahmovācaśṛṇudevajagannāthayasmādasmākamāgatam  
kathayāmisuraśreṣṭhatadahaṃlokabhāvana

### [4.13.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.23)

śūlidattavaronmattaḥkaṃsorājādurāsadaḥ  
vasudhātāḍitātenakaraghātenapīḍitā

### [4.13.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.24)

varaṃdatvāpurāpyagremāyayātupravaṃcitaḥ  
bhāgineyaṃvināśaṃbhomaraṇaṃbhavitāname

### [4.13.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.25)

tasmādgacchasvayaṃdevakaṃsaṃhaṃtuṃdurāsadam  
devakījaṭharejanmalabdhvāgatvācagokulam

### [4.13.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.26)

brahmaṇāpreritodevaḥpratyuvācacaśūlinam  
pārvatīṃdehideveśaabdaṃsthitvāgamiṣyati

### [4.13.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.27)

umayārakṣayāsārddhaṃśaṃkhacakragadādharaḥ  
uddiśyamathurāṃcakreprayāṇaṃkamalāsanaḥ

### [4.13.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.28)

devakījaṭharejanmalebhetatragadādharaḥ  
yaśodākukṣimadhyāsteśarvāṇīmṛgalocanā

### [4.13.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.29)

navamāsāṃścaviśramyakukṣaunavadināṃtakān  
bhādremāsyasitepakṣecāṣṭamīsaṃjñakātithiḥ

### [4.13.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.30)

rohiṇītārakāyuktārajanīghanaghoṣitā  
tasyāṃjātojagannāthaḥkaṃsārirvasudevajaḥ

### [4.13.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.31)

vairāṭīnaṃdapatnīcayaśodā'jījanatsutām  
putraṃpadmakaraṃpadmanābhaṃpadmadalekṣaṇam

### [4.13.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.32)

tadāharṣitumārebhedṛṣṭvāhyānakaduṃdubhiḥ  
kaṃsāsurabhayatrastāprovācadevakītadā

### [4.13.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.33)

vairāṭīṃgacchabhonāthasutaṃpratyarpitaṃkila  
putraṃdatvāyaśodāyaisutāṃtasyāḥsamānaya

### [4.13.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.34)

tasyāvacaḥsamākarṇyavasudevo'piduḥkhitaḥ  
aṃkekumāramādāyavairāṭyabhimukhaṃyayau

### [4.13.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.35)

yamunājalasaṃpūrṇātatpathemadhyavartmani  
āsīdghorā mahādīrghāgambhīrodakapūrabhāk

### [4.13.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.36)

evaṃdṛṣṭvātaṭesthitvāyamunāmavalokayan  
vasudevo'piduḥkhārtovilalāpāticiṃtayā

### [4.13.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.37)

kiṃkaromikvagacchāmividhināpihivaṃcitaḥ  
kathamatragamiṣyāmivairāṭīṃnaṃdamaṃdiram

### [4.13.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.38)

hariṇātatrasānaṃdaṃmāyayāvaṃcitaḥpitā  
kṣaṇamātraṃtaṭesthitvāyamunāmavalokayan

### [4.13.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.39)

tenadṛṣṭāpunaḥsāpikṣaṇājjānuvahābhavat  
tāṃdṛṣṭvāhṛṣṭauttasthauprasthānamakarodyathā

### [4.13.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.40)

māyāṃkṛtvājagannāthaḥpituraṃkājjale'patat  
taṃputraṃpatitaṃdṛṣṭvāhāhākṛtvāsuduḥkhitaḥ

### [4.13.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.41)

mahopāyaṃpunaḥkartuṃvidhinātenavaṃcitaḥ  
trāhimāṃjagatāṃnāthasutaṃrakṣasurottama

### [4.13.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.42)

janakakraṃditaṃdṛṣṭvākaṃsāriḥkṛpayāmuhuḥ  
jalakrīḍāṃsamācaryapituḥkroḍamagātpunaḥ

### [4.13.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.43)

yathātenayaduśreṣṭhojagāmanaṃdamaṃdiram  
sutaṃdattvāyaśodāyaisutāṃtasyāḥsamānayat

### [4.13.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.44)

nijāgāraṃtataḥprāpyapatnyaipratyarpitāsutā  
devakīcaprasūtetivārtāprāptāsurāriṇā

### [4.13.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.45)

ānetuṃprasthitādūtāḥsutaṃduhitaraṃtadā  
āgatyakaṃsadūtāstesutāṃnetuṃpracakramuḥ

### [4.13.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.46)

balādenāṃsamākṛṣyadevakīvasudevayoḥ  
kaṃsadūtairgṛhītvāsāarpitātusurāraye

### [4.13.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.47)

sadhṛtvātāṃmahārājaḥsabhayo'bhūddurāsadaḥ  
śuddhakāṃcanavarṇābhāṃpūrṇeṃdusadṛśānanām

### [4.13.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.48)

kaṃsohasaṃtīṃtāṃdṛṣṭvāvidyutsphuritalocanām  
ādideśāsuraśreṣṭhojahinītvāśilopari

### [4.13.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.49)

ājñāṃlabdhvā'surāstevainiṣpeṣṭuṃtāṃpravartitāḥ  
vidyucchīghratayāgaurījagāmaśaṃkarāṃtikam

### [4.13.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.50)

gauryuvācaśṛṇurājanpravakṣyāmiyatrāsteśatruruttamaḥ  
naṃdasyanilayeguptastavahaṃtā'surottama

### [4.13.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.51)

vasiṣṭhauvācaevamuktvātusādevījagāmanijamaṃdiram  
śrutvāvākyaṃtatodevyāḥkaṃsorājāsuduḥkhitaḥ

### [4.13.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.52)

bhaginīṃpūtanāmāhagacchatvaṃnaṃdamaṃdiram  
chadmanātaṃsutaṃhatvāgacchatevāṃcchitaṃbahu

### [4.13.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.53)

dāsyāmiśatruṃhaṃtuṃmevrajaśīghrataraṃśubhe  
ājñāṃprāpyarākṣasīsāgokulābhimukhaṃgatā

### [4.13.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.54)

māyayāsuṃdarīrūpāpraviṣṭātatragokule  
payodharegaraṃsātudhṛtvāhaṃtumupāgatā

### [4.13.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.55)

paśupānāṃgṛhadvāripraviṣṭālakṣitetica  
gatvāṃtarutthāpyaśiśuṃstanaṃdatvāpasadgatim

### [4.13.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.56)

tatastuśakaṭaṃkṣiptvātṛṇāvartādimardanam  
kālīyadamanaṃkṛtvāgatomadhupurīṃtataḥ

### [4.13.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.57)

gatvākaṃsohataḥkrūraḥkaṃsamallānajījayat  
etattekathitaṃrājanviṣṇorjanmadinavratam

### [4.13.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.58)

śrutvāpāpāninaśyaṃtikuryātiṃkavābhaviṣyati  
yaidaṃkurutemartyoyācanārīharervratam

### [4.13.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.59)

eśvaryamatulaṃprāpyajanmanyatrayathepsitam  
pūrvaviddhānakarttavyātṛtīyāṣaṣṭhirevaca

### [4.13.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.60)

aṣṭamyekādaśībhūtādharmakāmārthavāṃcchubhiḥ  
varjayitvāprayatnenasaptamīsaṃyutāṣṭamī

### [4.13.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.61)

vināṛkṣe'pikartavyānavamīsaṃyutāṣṭamī  
udayecāṣṭamīkiṃcitsakalānavamīyadi

### [4.13.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.62)

muhūrtarohiṇīyuktāsaṃpūrṇācāṣṭamībhavet  
aṣṭamībudhavāreṇarohiṇīsahitāyadi

### [4.13.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.63)

somenaivabhavedrājankiṃkṛtairvratakoṭibhiḥ  
navamyāmudayātkiṃcitsomesāpibudhe'pica

### [4.13.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.64)

apivarṣaśatenāpilabhyatevānalabhyate  
vināṛkṣaṃnakartavyānavamīsaṃyutāṣṭamī

### [4.13.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.65)

kāryāviddhāpisaptamyāṃrohiṇīsaṃyutāṣṭamī  
kalākāṣṭhāmuhūrte'piyadākṛṣṇāṣṭamītithiḥ

### [4.13.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.66)

navamyāṃsaivavāgrāhyāsaptamīsaṃyutānahi  
kiṃpunarbudhavāreṇasomenāpiviśeṣataḥ

### [4.13.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.67)

kiṃpurnarnavamīyuktākulakoṭyāstumuktidā  
palavedhenarājeṃdrasaptamyāaṣṭamīṃtyajet

### [4.13.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.68)

surāyābiṃdunāspṛṣṭaṃgaṃgāṃbhaḥkalaśaṃyathā  
dilīpauvācakenacādaukṛtaṃcedaṃkenavātatprakāśitam  
kiṃpuṇyaṃkiṃphalaṃdevakathayasvamahāmune

### [4.13.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.69)

vasiṣṭhauvācacitrasenomahārājāmahāpāpaparomahān  
agamyāgamanaṃkṛtvāsvarṇasteyaṃdvijasyaca

### [4.13.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.70)

surāyāṃcasadātṛptovṛthāmāṃsesadārataḥ  
evaṃpāpasamāyuktonityaṃprāṇivadherataḥ

### [4.13.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.71)

cāṃḍālaiḥpatitaiḥsārddhamālāpaṃsarvadākarot  
etadevaṃvidhorājāmṛgayāyāṃmanodadhe

### [4.13.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.72)

araṇyedvīpinaṃjñātvāveṣṭayitvācasarvataḥ  
sāvadhānaṃbhaṭānsarvānvākyametaduvācaha

### [4.13.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.73)

ahamevanihanmyenaṃyo'nyosminprahariṣyati  
savadhyonātrasaṃdehovyāghrorājñaḥpathāyayau

### [4.13.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.74)

salajjo'pitatorājāvyāghraṃpaścājjagāmaha  
anekakleśaduḥkhenavyāghraṃhaṃtuṃsamāhitaḥ

### [4.13.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.75)

kṣutpipāsākulakleśaḥsaṃdhyāyāṃyamunātaṭe  
aṣṭamīrohiṇīyuktātaddinaṃjanmavāsaram

### [4.13.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.76)

śvaḥkanyāyamunāyāṃvaivrataṃcakrurnarādhipa  
nānopahārairdravyaiścadhūpadīpaiḥsuśobhanaiḥ

### [4.13.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.77)

gaṃdhapuṣpaṃtathādravyaṃkuṃkumādimanoharam  
annaṃbahuguṇaṃdṛṣṭvābhoktuṃtanmānasaṃkulam

### [4.13.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.78)

rājovācaannābhāvānmamādyāśuprāṇāyāsyaṃtiniścitam  
striyaūcuḥjanmāṣṭamyāṃharerājannabhoktavyaṃtvayānagha

### [4.13.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.79)

gṛdhramāṃsaṃkharaṃkākaṃgomāṃsamannamevaca  
bhuktavānnātrasaṃdehoyobhuṃktekṛṣṇajanmani

### [4.13.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.80)

kiṃkiṃchidraṃnasaṃjātaṃsaṃsārevasatāṃnṛṇām  
yenadehesthiteprāṇejayaṃtīnakṛtānṛpa

### [4.13.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.81)

tatrākṛtopavāsasyaśāsanaṃyamamaṃdiram  
yaddattaṃpitaronityaṃnagṛhṇaṃtiyathāvidhi

### [4.13.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.82)

pitaraḥpātitāḥsarvejayaṃtyāṃbhojanekṛte  
itiśrutvātatorājāvrataṃcakrenarādhipa

### [4.13.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.83)

kiṃcitpuṣpaṃkiyadgaṃdhaṃvastraṃcānīyaharṣitaḥ  
etadvrataṃsamāyuktaṃtithibhāṃtecapāraṇam  
vratasyāsyaprabhāveṇacitrasenoharergṛham

### [4.13.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.84)

divyaṃvimānamāruhyagatavānpitṛbhiḥsaha  
yatphalaṃmathurāṃgatvādṛṣṭvākṛṣṇamukhāṃbujam

### [4.13.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.85)

tatphalaṃprāpyatepuṃsākṛṣṇajanmāṣṭamīvratāt  
yatphalaṃdvārakāṃgatvādṛṣṭeviśveśvareharau  
tatphalaṃprāpyatedīnaiḥkṛtvājanmāṣṭamīvratam

### [4.13.85.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13.85.p1)

iti śrīpādmemahāpurāṇebrahmakhaṃḍeharijanmāṣṭamīvratamāhātmyaṃ nāmatrayodaśo'dhyāyaḥ

## Linked texts (3)

- [Brahmavaivartapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.brahmavaivarta.3.134.208) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Kūrmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.kurma.2.37.82) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Hālāsyamāhātmya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.sthala.halasya.60.10) — Sanskrit

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.4.13) · Pramāṇa
