Verses
401-500401. One should
feast in the company of friends and should play to one's contents. One
should sleep that night, and afterwards, on the next one.
402-6. People
- with all parts of their bodies smeared with mud; besmearing their friends
here and there with mud; speaking, for the sake of love, various beautiful
utterances concerning persons having sexual intercourse and the women fit
for cohabitation, instigating sex-instinct; saying indecent words and crying
aloud - should play. On that day, in the morning, the Pisacas of dreadful
sight - the followers of Nikumbha - enter all the human beings. In the
evening, they leave the body of one who does so and is bathed and enter
that of another, cursing him, who does not do so. Then the bathed persons
should worship Kes'ava.
407-8. With
their bodies anointed and well-adorned, they should worship the Brahmanas
and feast themselves in the company of friends, servants, wives and children.
Since then, the human beings, especially the Brahmanas, should keep the
fire kindled in their houses, at night, for a period of six months.
409-10. A lamp
should be placed outside the home, at night, for one month. Till the full-moon
night of Karttika, this Kaumudi - the giver of bliss - should be celebrated.
Then after the passing away of that fortnight, there should be the celebration
of "Sleep with happiness" (Sukha Suptika).
411. 0 Brahmana,
listen to me who am saying as to how is that to-be celebrated on the fifteenth.
None except the sick and the children should take meals on that day.
412-13. After
sun-set, one should worship Laksmi and then lamp-trees should be placed
in the temples of the gods, crossings of the roads, cremation grounds,
rivers, hills, houses, bases of trees, cow-pens, court-yards and shops.
414-15. O twice-born,
all the shops should be decorated with clothes. After that, in the place
surrounded by rows of earthen lamps, O lord of the twice-born, a person,
well adorned and dressed in new, should eat in the company of friends,
relatives, the Brahmanas and servants.
416. Next day,
the persons - well anointed and well decorated should gamble and listen
to vocal and instrumental music.
417. They should
also feast in the company of the persons mentioned above. For him who wins
in that gambling, the year is auspicious.
418-19. During
that night, the place where the beds are placed, should be well-decorated
with perfumes, clothes, incense and jewels. It should also be surrounded
by lines of lamps and perfumed with incense. That night should be spent
by them in the company of wives.
420. 0 Candradeva,
the friends, the relatives made by marriage and the maternal relatives
should be honoured with new clothes and so also the Brahmanas and the servants
in the proper manner.
421. On the
eleventh night of the bright half of the month, the man observing fast
should wake up God Hari with songs and dances.
422-23. In
the month of Asadha, Kes'ava's statue, sleeping on the couch in the form
of S'esa, should be made of stone, clay, gold, wood, copper, brass, silver
or He may be painted in a picture. His feet should be shown in the lap
of Laksmi.
424. 0 excellent
sage, know from me the way in which that (deity) is to be awakened at the
end of the bright half of Karttika.
425-27. During
the night of the eleventh, vigil should be observed with songs, dances,
instrumental music, Brahmaghosa, the sounds of Vina and Pataha, recitation
of the Puranas, hearing of the Puranic stories, singing of devotional hymns,
presentation of dramatic performances, charities, earth decorations, offerings
of flowers and incenses, various sorts of eatable offerings, trees of lamps,
and various sorts of fire-worships.
428-431. Having
worshipped the image at night, with eatables like cakes, vegtables, rice
boiled in milk, fruits, preparations of sugar-cane, honey, grapes, pomegranate,
holy basil, and salt; with brush, red thread, red and white sand lewood,
Alaktaka paint, seeds and fragrant saffron, the wise should wash the auspicious
image after taking bath in the holy water of a river.
432-34. That
awakened image made of the above-mentioned materials - if the figure be
painted in a picture - ... should be carried on an altar and the wise should
bathe that (image) placed on the seat, in the proper manner, in accordance
with the rules of the Pancaratra and according to one's means firstly with
clarified butter, oil, honey; then with curd and milk, and then with the
five preparations of cow's milk.
435-39. Thereafter,
should be applied to the image, the unguents, namely the ground seeds of
Phaseolus Radiatus (masacurnam), the ground seeds of Ipomoea Turpethum (masuracurnam ), ( ground ) fruits of Emblic Myrobalan
(amalakani), Symplocos
Recemosa ( rodhram), Curcuma xanthorrhiza (kaleyakam), powder of Tabernaemontana
coronaria (tagaram), the pericarp of a lotus (karnakam), the white mustard (siddharthakam), Pamcum Italicum
(priyangu), fruits of citron (bijapurakam),
all the medicinal herbs, all scents, all seeds, gold, auspicious things
as far as these may be available, jewels, Kusa grass, water, clay dug out
by means of elephant's tooth and bull's horn from the bank of a river,
cow-pen, ant hill, confluence (of rivers), water-tank, the place of Indra
( king), the lake, and the peak of the mountain. Having given bath to the
king of the gods with all these, one should give the auspicious yellow
pigment called gorocana.
440. Then should
be given, as far as the means may allow, pitchers made of gold, well decorated
and full of the leaves of Jati flowers and fruits.
441-42. Having
bathed Govinda amidst announcements of good day, recitation of Veda, tunes
of Vina and Venu, the sounds of Sutas, Magadhas and Vandis, that well anointed,
well decorated and well-dressed (Govinda) should be worshipped with Jati
flowers along with buds.
443. Incense
should be given along with pollen of flowers and beautiful earthen lamp.
Then the god should be worshipped with rice boiled in milk.
444-45. Then
the Bhagavatas should be honoured with gifts of grains and jewels. Thereafter
should be performed fire-sacrifice and after that should be worshipped
the Brahmanas, according to one's means, with clothes, ornaments, jewels,
cows, horses, elephants and cash-money. One should take meals afterwards.
446. On the
thirteenth should be honoured, as the means may allow, the persons whose
means of livelihood is stage i.e. wrestlers, panegyrists etc.
447. On the
fourteenth, either nothing should be taken or milk only may be taken and
on the fifteenth should be worshipped Janardana, the god of the gods.
448-51. On Paurnamasi, nothing should be eaten during the day time. After the rising
of the moon, Krttikas, Karttikeya, Khadga and Varuna along with Hutasana
should be worshipped with garlands, scents, incenses, eatables of various
kinds like the rice boiied in milk, vegetables, preparations of sugarcane,
half ripe barley, cakes of sugar covered with seeds, beautiful trees of
lamps and worship of the twice-born.
452-53. After
performing worship thus, one should put the earthen lamp, which was placed
at the outer side of the house for a month, in a basket and taking in the
vicinity of water, make that flow along with some eatables. The bottom
of the lamp should be painted with sandlewood.
454. Having
made a fish of sand, one should fill it with milk, provide it with eyes
of jewels, and then give it to a Brahmana.
455-56. Then
a nice white bull - clothed, endowed with all scents and bearing all sorts
of grains should be given to a twice-born according to one's means. He
waits (for the donor) in the Kantara i.e. the path of the god of Death.
By means of that (bull) the wise men, verily, cross the way of the god
of Death.
457. The givers
of the bull enjoy themselves in the heaven, for as many years as there
are hair on the body of the bull.
458. After
worshipping Visnu with red garlands, one should take milk etc. and then
go to sleep.
459-60. Thus,
the Awakening of the God should be observed for five days. The wise men
should sleep on bare earth for five days and take bath daily in the cool
water of the river.
461. The god Hari, the Brahmanas and the Fire should be worshipped. O descendant of
Kasyapa, the eating of meat should be avoided even with great effort.
462. The meat-eaters,
namely, the Danavas, the Yaksas, the Daityas, and the Pisacas along with
the Raksasas avoid meat for these five days.
463. Having
worshipped thus the lord of the gods, possessed of (the fulfilment of)
all desires, one, having reached the end of life, is honoured in the world
of Visnu.
464. It is
in accordance with one's means that all this, may be even little, should
be performed. One gets (by this) the whole merit. Dishonesty in money-matters
should be avoided.
465-66. Formerly,
Kasmira was constructed by the high- souled Kasyapa, on the first day after
the passing away of the (full-moon day of) Karttika, so a festival should
be cdebrated there on that day by all human beings - well-fed, well anointed,
possessed of happy minds and surrounded by good people.
467. Vocal
and instrumental music should be listened to and auspicious things should
be resorted to. New clothes should be worn, and those who are given to
drinking should drink.
468. The sun
along with his ganas is pleased with him.
469. The same
procedure should be followed on the seventh of Magha and also on the seventh
of Asadha, by those who desire victory and renown.
470. 0 best
among the twice-borns, this triad of the seventh days is compulsory. By
following this procedure on all the seventh days, one is honoured in the
world of the sun.
471-74. On
the full-moon night of Margasirsa, one should take meals at night ( only),
and worship the moon with white garland etc., grains, other types of food,
gifts of lamps, fruits, gifts of salt, fire-worships, worship of the Brahmnas
and worship of women (whose husbands and sons are alive). A pair of red
clothes should be given to a Brahmana woman whose husband and sons are
alive and also to a sister, father's sister and the wife of a friend. O
best among the twice-born, this full-moon night should certainly be celebrated
by the wise.
475-76 Others
may be celebrated as the means allow or even may not be celebrated. By
this, women get beautiful form and great prosperity. So the full-moon nights
should be specially observed by women.
477. On the
day on which falls the first snow, should be worshipped, O Brahmana, the
Himalaya and the two seasons Hemanta and Sisira.
478 My worship
should be performed and also that of the local Naga. Fruits and leaves
growing on the Meru should be offered to the mountain.
479. Baka flowers (Grandiflora) should be offered and also the auspicious incense made of
bdellium. O best among the twice-born, oblations of half ripe barley should
also be made.
480. Food-preparations
of half-ripe barley along with purified butter should be given to the Brahmanas,
and a festival full of songs and dances should be celebrated.
481. On snow-fall,
new wine should be drunk by those who are given to drinking. Special meals
should be taken according to one's desire.
482. The goddess
Syama should be worshipped with flowers, incense, paints, grains, food-preparations,
fruits and roots by those who are well-anointed and well-decorated.
483-84. Clad
in heavy cloaks and clothes, seated on the snow along with friends, servants,
children and relatives, they should eat special food, listen to vocal and
instrumental music, see dances of harlots and honour the ladies.
485-86. Sraddha
should be performed with vegetables on the 8th of the dark-half of Pausa,
with meat on the 8th of the dark-half of Magha, and with cakes of flour
on the 8th of the bright-half of Phalguna, in the proper way, by a person
intently devoted. On the 9th days of those very ( months and fortnights)
should be performed Sraddhas for women.
487-88. After
performing Sraddha one should pass the night, with effort, in celibacy.
When the full-moon night of the Pausa be associated with Pusya, then a
person, besmeared with the powder of white mustards, should anoint his
body with purified butter.
489-92. Then
shining greatly after taking bath from vessels full of all medicines, he
should worship Narayana, Sakra, Soma, Pusya, Brhaspati, each one separately
with water of honour, garlands, eatable offerings etc. Then, O twice-born,
after performing sacrifice with Mantras belonging to the above-mentioned
gods, he should worship the Brahmnas with wealth, and after touching auspicious
things, he should eat preparation of purified butter and milk. A new silken
cloth should be given to the officiating priest knowing (future) time.
493. Doing
thus, a man obtains prosperity from the point of view of wealth and grains.
So the bath of such type which destroys sins, should be performed.
494. When there
is Uttarayana, one should bathe Madhusudana according to one's means. The
devotee of Hara (should bathe) the god Hara.
495-96. After
anointing the stone-images with purified butter, one should make similar
images of purified butter. These images should be worshipped with purified
butter, conscientiously, by the wise for a period of three months.
497. Fuel should
be given to the Brahmanas and grass for the cows to the twice-borns, according
to one's means.
498. One who
does so, conquers well his enemies and obtains beauty born of the lustre
of the fire of the body and also good resort (after death).
499-500. On
the 12th of the dark half after the passing away of the full-moon night
of Pausa, one, observing fast and bathed, should offer sesame and water.
Having prepared the offering of sesame and having performed sacrifice
with sesame, one should give sesame to the Brahmanas for the removal of
all sins.
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