Lakshmi-Narayana Vrata (of Margasirsa PQnjima)

This Vrata is different from that given in CC. Vrata.ilЛ64 and also other about 38 PUrpirnd vratas given therein (pp.l60-245). The Vrata-raja also is silent about this. This vrata is to be observed from the Full Moon day in the month of Margasirsa ending it on the Full moon day of Karttika, — Thus completing one full year i.e. 12 PUrpimds. The Vrata can be undertaken even by women and Shudras.

The belief that some calamities or effects of ill omens, bad dreams, evil influences of stars, unprecedental or unnatural happenings, etc., can be prevented or mitigated by the recitadon of some Vedic Suktas is found since the later Vedic dmes and the Sutra period. The following SUktax are regarded as Sdnti Suktas, the recital of which is beneficial:

(3) Sam na Indragm (RV.VIII.35.1-11) This is regarded as Santikddhydya (Mt.P.274.56).

A reference to Bloomfield’s Vedic Concordance shows that these verses are repeated in other Vedic texts like TS., AV. etc.

The belief in the auspicious and protective effects of recital of holy texts is found in Buddhists of Lanka and countries of the South East Asia. There are 30 such suttas such as Mahd mangala sutta, Metti sutta, Dasa-dhamma sutta and others in Pali Sutta Pifaka and they are used for similar purpose as the Vedic Suktas in Brahmanism. These suttas are called Parittas ‘Protectors and they are the most popular in Burma (M! Bode — The Pali Literature of Burma, pp. 3-4). Installation of the Banner

1. “I shall expound to you another holy Vrata which dispels all sins and causes delight to Vishnu. It is named Dhvajd- ropana1 (installation of the banner).

2. He who installs an excellent banner on the temple of Vishnu is honoured by Brahma and others. What more need be spoken (in praise of it)?.

3. The gift of a thousand Bharas2 of gold to a man burdened with a large family is but equal in benefit to the rite of installation of the banner.

4. The excellent ablution in the Ganga or the service unto the Tulasi plant or the adoration of Shiva-Linga is on a par with the installation of the banner.

5. О Brahmana, unprecedented it is! Rare and unequalled it is! It is unprecedented! It is a rite that dispels all sins, the rite called Dhvajaropana.

6. I shall describe all those rites ancillary to the installation of the banner. Even as I recount it, listen.

7. On the DaJami (tenth) day in the bright half of the month of Karttika,3 a man in complete self-restraint, should assiduously perform the rite of ablution beginning with the cleaning of his teeth.

8. The Brahmana devotee should take food only once. He should observe the vow of celibacy. Remembering the lord Narayana, he shall sleep in front of the deity. He should be pure and be clad in white robes.

9. He should get up early in the morning and perform the rites of Acamana and ablution duly. After finishing the daily routine of prescribed duties, he should worship Vishnu.

10. Causing the Svastivacana (the utterance of benediction) along with four Brahmanas, the devotee should perform the Nandi Sraddha4 (Sraddha, preliminary to Sarhskdras and festive occasions) in the holy rite of the installation of the banner.

11. Repeating the Gayatri, he should sprinkle the banner and the flag-staff along with the cloth. Devoted to them, he should worship the sun, moon and Vainateya (Garuda).

12. He should worship Dhatr and Vidhatr (gods Vishnu arid Brahma) on the staff of the flag, with turmeric, raw rice grains, scents and other things and particularly with white flowers.

13. Thereafter, he should get a small plot measuring a Gocarmarfi (scrubbed, cleaned and smeared well. The sacrificial fire should be placed there. One should oblate ghee and other things in the prescribed order® in accordance with the injunctions in one’s own Grhya SUtra.

14-15. He should offer a hundred and eight oblations of milk pudding and ghee in the homa. At the outset, the Ригща SGkta (RV.X.90) is repeated, then the Sukta Vishnomu kam (RV.1.154) etc. and then The Iravati (RV.VII.99) (should be repeated). Thereafter, he should give eight Ahutis (in the fire) saying Vainateyaya svahd. Thereafter, О Brahmana the Suktas Somo Dhenum (RV.I.91.20) and Udu tyam (RV.I.50.1) should be repeated and oblations be offered.7

16. There, he should repeat the sukta pertaining to the Sun (viz. RV.I.50) and the Santi Suktas in accordance with one’s capacity. With purity, he should keep awake during the night in the vicinity of Hari.

17. Thereafter, he should get up early in the morning and complete the daily routine activities. As before, he should worship the Lord with scents, sweet smelling flowers and other things in due order.

18. Thereafter, the splendid auspicious flag should be taken to the shrine of Vishnu, to the accompaniment of auspicious musical instruments, chanting of the Suktas, dances and singing of hymns.

19. О Brahmana, the joyous devotee should firmly plant the flagstaff (with the hoisted flag) either at the entrance to the shrine of the Lord or on the top of it.

20. Then, he should worship Lord Hari with scents, flowers, raw rice grains, charming incense and lamps and Naivedya offerings consisting of various dishes.

21. After installing the excellent and splendid banner in the temple, he should circumambulate it and chant this song of prayer.

22. “Obeisance to you, О Lotus-eyed Lord, the Con- ceiver and creator of the Universe; О Hrsikega, salutations to you, О ear best-born great Purusa.

23. I resort to Keshava by whom all this universe has been created, in whom everything is established and in whom the universe will get dissolved.

24. I salute that Lord, the embodiment of perfect knowledge, whose supreme nature even Brahma and other gods do not know and whom even the Yogins do not perceive.

25. I salute that Lord whose form consists of the entire universe,8 whose umbilical region is the firmament, whose head is the heaven and whose feet are the Earth.

26. I salute that Lord who is Brahma incarnate whose ears are all the quarters, whose eyes are the sun and the moon, and by whom the mantras of Rk, Saman and Taj us have been uttered.

27. I salute that Lord from whose mouth the Brahmanas originated, from whose arms the kings came forth, from whose thighs the Vaishyas were born and from whose feet were born the audras.

28. I salute that unborn Lord whom they call Purina only on account of the contact with Maya, but who is naturally free from impurities, who is pure, who is free from modifications or change and is unsullied.

29. I salute that god Vishnu who reposes in the milk-ocean, who is the infinite and unvanquished Lord, and is favourably disposed towards good devotees and who is attainable only through devotion.

30. I salute that omnifaced Lord from whom originated the earth and other elements, the Tanmatrds, the sense-organs and both the subtle and gross substances.

31. Again and again I bow unto that attributeless, subtle supreme being which is the Brahman, the highest resort that is the supreme-most and the most excellent in all the worlds.

32. I bow down to that unborn pure Lord who is not subject to modification or change and who has arms all round and whom the leading Yogins consider the cause of the cause of all.

33. May that Vishnu be propitiated unto me — Lord Vishnu who is the immanent soul in all living beings, who is identical with the universe, and who is the attributeless great Atman.

34. May that Vishnu be pleased with me — the Lord who though stationed within the heart, is yet staying far off to those whose Atmans had been deluded by Maya but who is omnipresent to persons endowed with spiritual knowledge.

35. May that Vishnu be pleased with me, Vishnu, the Lord whose homa is performed by set of four, set of four, with a set of two, set of five and again by a set of two.9

36. May that Vishnu be pleased with me, the lord who is the bestower of salvation to those men possessing perfect knowledge (i.e. followers of Jnana-yoga), meritorious deeds (performers of Karmas or followers of karma-marga) and devotional feelings (followers of the path of devotion) and who is sought by the whole universe.

37. May that Vishnu be gracious unto me — Lord Vishnu whose persons assumed sportively for the well-being of the world, are worshipped by gods.

38. May that Vishnu be propitious unto me — the Lord whom the saintly persons consider to be the embodiment of existence, knowledge and bliss, the attributeless support of the attributes.”

39. After eulogising thus, he should bow down to Vishnu and worship the Brahmanas richly. Afterwards, he should adore the preceptor with the offerings of religious fees, raiments, etc.

40-41. In accordance with his capacity, he should feed the Brahmanas, with devotional feelings. О Brahmana, devoted to Narayana he should perform Parana — the ritualistic break of the fast — along with his sons, friends, wives and other kinsmen. I shall mention the meritorious benefits to the person who performs this excellent rite of Dhvajaropana. Listen with attention.

42. Undoubtedly, as many accumulations of his sins perish, О leading Brahmana, as thereare flutters in the banner cloth due to the wind.

43. Whether one is vitiated by great sins or by all kinds of sins, one is absolved of them all by installing a banner in the shrine of Vishnu.

44. О Brahmana, he enjoys Sariipya (similarity of form) with Hari for as many thousands of Yugas as the number of days that the banner stands aloft in Vishnu’s abode.

45. If righteous men take delight and praise on seeing the banner installed, all of them are liberated from crores of great sins.

46. The banner installed in Vishnu’s abode shakes off within half wink of eye, the sins of the man who had installed it, even as it flutters its cloth.

47. He who installs a banner in the abode of Vishnu and looks after it every day, goes to heaven by means of Devayana (the divine path) like king Sumati of good intellect.”

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