व्रतं कैवल्यशमनमखण्डद्वादशीं वदे ।
मागशीर्षे सिते पक्षे गव्याशी समुपोषितः
vrataṃ kaivalyaśamanamakhaṇḍadvādaśīṃ vade |
māgaśīrṣe site pakṣe gavyāśī samupoṣitaḥ
Purva Khanda: Achara Kanda
Chapter 118: The Akhanda Dvadashi vrata
इति श्रीगारुडे महापुराणे पूर्वखण्डे प्रथमांशाख्ये आचारकाण्डेऽखण्डद्वादशीव्रतकथनंनामाष्टादशोत्तर शततमोऽध्यायः ॥
5 verses · 118 of 241
What happens in this chapter
The Akhanda Dvadashi vrata
Brahma gives the Akhanda Dvadashi, the vow that makes every other vow whole. In the bright fortnight of Margashirsha the devotee fasts, living on the products of the cow, and on dvadashi worships Vishnu. The vow runs for four months at a time. He gives a brahmin a vessel filled with five kinds of grain and prays: whatever vow I have kept over seven births, O Vishnu, by your grace may it now be unbroken; as you, Purushottama, are the whole and unbroken world, so may all my vows be whole. In the four months from Chaitra he gives vessels of barley flour, and in the four from Shravana vessels with ghee. One who completes the vow gains a wife, sons and svarga.
ब्रह्मोवाच
द्वादश्यां पूजये द्विष्णुं दद्यान्मासचतुष्टयम् ।
पञ्चव्रीहियुतं पात्रं विप्रायेदमुदाहरेत्
dvādaśyāṃ pūjaye dviṣṇuṃ dadyānmāsacatuṣṭayam |
pañcavrīhiyutaṃ pātraṃ viprāyedamudāharet
सप्तजन्मनि हे विष्णो यन्मया हि व्रतं कृतम् ।
भगवंस्त्वत्प्रसादेन तदखण्डमिहास्तु मे
saptajanmani he viṣṇo yanmayā hi vrataṃ kṛtam |
bhagavaṃstvatprasādena tadakhaṇḍamihāstu me
यथाखण्डं जगत्सर्वं त्वमेव पुरुषोत्तम ।
तथाखिलान्यखण्डानि व्रितानि मम सन्ति वै
yathākhaṇḍaṃ jagatsarvaṃ tvameva puruṣottama |
tathākhilānyakhaṇḍāni vritāni mama santi vai
सक्तुपात्राणि चैत्रादौ श्रावणादौ घृतान्वितान् ।
व्रतकृद्वतपूर्णस्तु स्त्रीपुत्रस्वर्गभाग्भवेत्
saktupātrāṇi caitrādau śrāvaṇādau ghṛtānvitān |
vratakṛdvatapūrṇastu strīputrasvargabhāgbhavet
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