Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.1363

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Completely abstaining from food on the Ekādaśī day you should take food on the Dvādaśī day. As you take your food you should pray like this: "Bhuṅkṣyehaṃ Puṇḍarīkākṣa śaraṇaṃ me bhavācyuta". (Oh, Puṇḍarīkākṣa, I am going to break my fast. Oh, Bhagavan, let you be my heaven). If an Ekādaśī comes on a Pūyam—Puṣya-day in the bright half of the month that day should on any account be observed. That day would give the observer unlimited good result and that Ekādaśī is qualified as Pāpanāśinī (destroyer of all evils). When Ekādaśī and Dvādaśī happen to combine on a Tiruvoṇam (Śrāvaṇa) day the Ekādaśī is qualified as Vijayā. That day gives prosperity to devotees. It is also called Vijayā if an Ekādaśī comes in the month of Phālguna (March) on a Pūyam (Puṣya) day. The wise extol this day as one promising crores of good effects. On the Ekādaśī day you should do Viṣṇu Pūjā which is productive of universal happiness. He who does so will acquire children and wealth in this world and attain Viṣṇuloka on death. (Chapter 178, Agni Purāṇa) EKĀDAŚENDRIYA(S). Śrotra, Tvak, Cakṣus, Jihvā, Ghrāṇa, Vāk, Pāṇi, Pāda, Pāyu (anus) Upastha and mind are the eleven sense-organs. EKAHAMSATĪRTHA. An ancient holy place of north India. If a man bathes in a sacred pond he will get the benefit of giving away as charity a thousand cows. (Śloka 20, Chapter 83, Vana Parva). EKAJAṬĀ. A demoness of the castle of Rāvaṇa. This demoness talked very enticingly to coax Sītā to surrender herself to Rāvaṇa. (Sarga 23, Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Sundara Kāṇḍa).