Garuda Purana — Purva Khanda — Chapter 122

GaP 1 122.1

श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- १२२ ब्रह्मोवाच । व्रतं मासोपवासाख्यं सर्वोत्कृष्टं वदामिते । वानप्रस्थो यतिर्नारी कुर्यान्मासोपवासकम्

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 122 brahmovāca / vrataṃ māsopavāsākhyaṃ sarvotkṛṣṭaṃ vadāmite / vānaprastho yatirnārī kuryānmāsopavāsakam

The Glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, 123 [122]. Brahmā said: I shall tell you the vow called 'the month-long fast', the highest of all. A forest-dweller, an ascetic, or a woman may perform the month-long fast.

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GaP 1 122.2

आश्विनस्य सिते पक्षे एकादश्यामुपोषितः । व्रतमेतत्तु गृह्णीयाद्यावत्त्रिंशद्दिनानि तु

āśvinasya site pakṣe ekādaśyāmupoṣitaḥ / vratametattu gṛhṇīyādyāvattriṃśaddināni tu

Fasting on the eleventh of the bright fortnight of Āśvina, he should undertake this vow for as long as thirty days.

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GaP 1 122.3

अद्यप्रभृत्यहं विष्णो यावदुत्थानकं तव । अर्चयेत्वामनश्रंस्तु दिनानि त्रिंशदेव तु

adyaprabhṛtyahaṃ viṣṇo yāvadutthānakaṃ tava / arcayetvāmanaśraṃstu dināni triṃśadeva tu

"From today onward, O Viṣṇu, until your rising, I shall worship you without eating, for just thirty days.

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GaP 1 122.4

कार्तिकाश्विनयोर्विष्णो द्वादश्योः शुक्लयोरहम् । म्रियेयद्यन्तराले तु व्रतभङ्गो न मे भवेत्

kārtikāśvinayorviṣṇo dvādaśyoḥ śuklayoraham / mriyeyadyantarāle tu vratabhaṅgo na me bhavet

"O Viṣṇu, (I vow this) between the twelfths of the bright fortnights of Kārtika and Āśvina; if I should die in the interval, let there be no breaking of my vow."

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GaP 1 122.5

हरिं यजोत्त्रिषवणस्नायी गन्धादिभिर्व्रती । गात्राभ्यङ्गं गन्धलेपं देवतायतने त्यजेत्

hariṃ yajottriṣavaṇasnāyī gandhādibhirvratī / gātrābhyaṅgaṃ gandhalepaṃ devatāyatane tyajet

The observer of the vow should worship Hari with perfumes and the rest, bathing at the three junctures of the day; he should give up oiling the body and smearing with perfume in the god's temple.

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GaP 1 122.6

द्वादश्यामथ संपूज्य प्रदद्याद्द्विजभोजनम् । ततश्च पारणं कुर्याद्धरेर्मासोपवासकृत्

dvādaśyāmatha saṃpūjya pradadyāddvijabhojanam / tataśca pāraṇaṃ kuryāddharermāsopavāsakṛt

Then on the twelfth, having worshipped (him) fully, he should provide a meal for brahmins, and thereafter the one who has kept Hari's month-long fast should break his fast.

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GaP 1 122.7

दुग्धादिप्राशनं कुर्याद्व्रतस्थो मूर्छितो ऽन्तरा । दुग्धाद्यैर्न व्रतं नश्येद्भुक्तिमुक्तिमवाप्नुयात्

dugdhādiprāśanaṃ kuryādvratastho mūrchito 'ntarā / dugdhādyairna vrataṃ naśyedbhuktimuktimavāpnuyāt

If one keeping the vow faints in the middle (of it), he may take milk and the like; the vow is not destroyed by milk and such, and he obtains enjoyment and liberation.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition