[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) › 6.57 # Padmapurana 6.57: saptapañcāśattamo'dhyāyaḥ Padmapurāṇa 6.57 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [6.57.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.41) — 1 part ### saptapañcāśattamo'dhyāyaḥ ### [6.57.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.1) yudhiṣṭhirauvāca - nabhasyasyasitepakṣekiṃnāmaikādaśībhavet kodevaḥkovidhistasyaetadākhyāhikeśava ### [6.57.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.2) śrīkṛṣṇauvācakathayāmimahīpālakathāmāścaryakāriṇīm kathayāmāsayāṃbrahyānāradāyamahātmane ### [6.57.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.3) nāradauvācakathayasvaprasādenacaturmukhanamo'stute nabhasyaśuklapakṣetukiṃnāmaikādaśībhavet etadicchāmyahaṃśrotuṃviṣṇorārādhanāyavai ### [6.57.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.4) brahmovācavaiṣṇavo'simuniśreṣṭhasādhupṛṣṭaṃkilatvayā nātaḥparatarālokepavitrāharivāsarāt ### [6.57.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.5) padmānāmetivikhyātānabhasyaikādaśīsitā hṛṣīkeśaḥpūjyate'syākarttavyaṃvratamuttamam ### [6.57.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.6) kathayāmitavāgre'hakathāṃpaurāṇikīṃśubhām yasyāḥśravaṇamātreṇamahāpāpaṃpraṇaśyati ### [6.57.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.7) māṃdhātānāmarājarṣirvivasvadveśasaṃbhavaḥ babhūvacakravartīsasatyasaṃdhaḥpratāpavān ### [6.57.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.8) dharmataḥpālayāmāsaprajāḥputrānivaurasān natasyarājyedurbhikṣaṃnādhayovyādhayastathā ### [6.57.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.9) nirātaṃkāḥprajāstasyadhanadhānyasamedhitāḥ nyāyenopārjitaṃvittaṃtasyakośemahīpate ### [6.57.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.10) svasvadharmepravarttaṃtesarvevarṇāśramāstathā kāmadhenusamābhūmistasyarājyemahīpateḥ ### [6.57.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.11) tasyaivaṃkurvatorājyaṃbahuvarṣagaṇāgatāḥ athaikasmiṃścasaṃprāptevipākaḥkarmaṇaḥkhalu ### [6.57.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.12) varṣatrayaṃtadviṣayenavavarṣabalāhakaḥ tenabhagnāḥprajāstasyababhūvuḥkṣudhayārditāḥ ### [6.57.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.13) svāhāsvadhāvaṣaṭkāravedādhyayanavarjitāḥ babhūvaviṣayastasyābhāgyenadaivapīḍitaḥ athaprajāḥsamāgamyarājānamidamabruvan ### [6.57.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.14) prajāūcuḥ - śrotavyaṃnṛpaśārdūlaprajānāṃvacanaṃtvayā āponārāitiproktāḥpurāṇeṣumanīṣibhiḥ ### [6.57.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.15) ayanaṃbhagavatastasmānnārāyaṇaitismṛtaḥ parjanyarūpobhagavānviṣṇuḥsarvagataḥsthitaḥ ### [6.57.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.16) saevaṃkurutevṛṣṭiṃvṛṣṭerannaṃtataḥprajāḥ tadabhāvenṛpaśreṣṭhakṣayaṃgacchaṃtivaiprajāḥ tathākurunṛpaśreṣṭhayogaḥkṣemoyathābhavet ### [6.57.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.17) rājovācasatyamuktaṃbhavadbhiścanamithyābhihitaṃkvacit annaṃbrahmayataḥproktamannesarvaṃpratiṣṭhitam ### [6.57.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.18) annādbhavaṃtibhūtānijagadannenavartate ityevaṃśrūyatelokepurāṇebahuvistare ### [6.57.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.19) nṛpāṇāmapacāreṇaprajānāṃpīḍanaṃbhavet nāhaṃpaśyāmyātmakṛtamevaṃbuddhyāvicārayan ### [6.57.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.20) tathāpiprayatiṣyāmiprajānāṃhitakāmyayā itikṛtvāmatiṃrājāparimeyaparicchadaḥ ### [6.57.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.21) namaskṛtyavidhātāraṃjagāmagahanaṃvanam cacāramunimukhyāṃścaāśramāntāpasaiḥśritān ### [6.57.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.22) dadarśāthabrahmasutamṛṣimāṃgirasaṃnṛpaḥ tejasādyotitadiśaṃdvitīyamivapadmajam ### [6.57.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.23) taṃdṛṣṭvāharṣitorājāavatīryasvavāhanāt namaścakre'syacaraṇaukṛtāṃjalipuṭovaśī ### [6.57.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.24) munistamabhinaṃdyāthasvastivācanapūrvakam papracchakuśalaṃrājyesaptasvaṃgeṣubhūpateḥ ### [6.57.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.25) nivedayitvākuśalaṃ papracchānāmayaṃnṛpaḥ dattāsanogṛhītārghyaupaviṣṭo'syasaṃnidhau ### [6.57.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.26) pratyuvācamuniṃrājāpṛṣṭohyāgamakāraṇam ### [6.57.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.27) rājovācabhagavandharmavidhināmamapālayatomahīm anāvṛṣṭiścasaṃvṛttānāhaṃvedmyatrakāraṇam ### [6.57.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.28) saṃśayacchedanāyātraāgato'hatavāṃtike yogakṣemavidhānenaprajānāṃkurunirvṛtim ### [6.57.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.29) ṛṣiruvācaetatkṛtayugaṃrājanyugānāmuttamaṃmatam atrabrahmaparālokādharmaścātracatuṣpadaḥ ### [6.57.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.30) asminyugetapoyuktābrāhmaṇānetarājanāḥ viṣayetavarājeṃdravṛṣalo'yatapasyati ### [6.57.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.31) etasmātkāraṇāccaivanavarṣatibalāhakaḥ kurutasyavadheyatnaṃyenadoṣaḥpraśāmyati ### [6.57.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.32) rājovācanāhamenaṃvadhiṣyāmitapasyaṃtamanāgasam dharmopadeśaṃkathayaupasargavināśanam ### [6.57.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.33) ṛṣiruvācayadyevaṃtarhinṛpatekuruṣvaikādaśīvratam nabhasyasyasitepakṣepadmānāmetiviśrutā ### [6.57.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.34) tasyāvrataprabhāvenasuvṛṣṭirbhavitādhruvam sarvasiddhipradāhyeṣāsarvopadravanāśinī ### [6.57.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.35) asyāvrataṃkurunṛpasaprajaḥsaparicchadaḥ itivākyamṛṣeḥśrutvārājāsvagṛhamāgataḥ ### [6.57.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.36) bhādramāsesitepakṣepadmāvratamathākarot prajābhiḥsahasarvābhiścāturvarṇyasamanvitaḥ ### [6.57.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.37) evaṃvratekṛterājanpravavarṣabalāhakaḥ jalenaplāvitābhūmirabhavatsasyaśālinī ### [6.57.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.38) ṛṣīśvaraprabhāvenalokāḥsaukhyaṃprapedire etasmātkāraṇādevaṃkarttavyaṃvratamuttamam ### [6.57.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.39) dadhyodanayutaṃtasyāṃjalapūrṇaṃghaṭaṃdvije vastrasaṃveṣṭitaṃdattvāchatropānahamevaca ### [6.57.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.40) namonamastegoviṃdabudhaśravaṇasaṃjñaka aghaughasaṃkṣayaṃkṛtvāsarvasaukhyapradobhava ### [6.57.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.41) bhuktimuktipradaścaivalokānāṃsukhadāyakaḥ paṭhanācchravaṇādrājansarvapāpaiḥpramucyate ### [6.57.41.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57.41.p1) iti śrīpādmemahāpurāṇepaṃcapaṃcāśatsāhasryāṃsaṃhitāyāmuttarakhaṃḍe umāpatināradasaṃvādebhādrapadaśuklāpadmaikādaśīnāmasaptapaṃcāśattamo'dhyāyaḥ ## Linked texts (5) - [Kālikāpurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.sakta.kalika.4.426) — Sanskrit - [Bhagavantabhāskara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.bhagavantabhaskara.29.p47) — Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita 1625, Sanskrit - [Vratakhaṇḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.vrata.vratakhanda.114.p2.1) — Hemādri, Sanskrit - [Nirṇayasindhu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.nirnaya.nirnayasindhu.12.2-9) — Kamalākarabhaṭṭa 1612, Sanskrit - [Tithyarka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.kala.tithi.tithyarka.4.p1.39) — Divākarabhaṭṭa 1658, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.57) · Pramāṇa