The Importance of Fasting on the Jayanti Day

1. O Suta, tell (me about) the importance of Jayanti (birth day anniversary). When is it celebrated by the people? You are a boat in the ocean of the mundane existence.

2. O brahmana, O best sage, listen; since I am asked, I shall tell you. This was formerly asked by Narada from Brahma in heaven. Narada said:

3. O grandsire, tell me the significance of Jayanti (i.e. birth day anniversary), hearing which I shall go to that highest position of Vishnu. Brahma said:

4-8. O brahmana, listen attentively. I shall tell you. He (i.e. a man) goes to Vishnu's world by fasting on a Jayanti (day). Jayanti, O sage, burns, through remembering, narrating (the account of Vishnu), the sin earned during the (previous) seven existences. The more so in the case of the sin of one who observes a fast (on that day). The JanmastamI, the auspicious ninth day of the bright half in Caitra, the fourteenth day of the dark half of Magha, the fourteenth day of the bright half of Caitra, the DurgastamI in Asvina, the twelfth day of the bright half of Sravana — these six are said to be very meritorious Jayantls, causing auspiciousness. The Krishnajanmastami (mentioned) first is well-known and destroys sins. It is equal to a crore of sacrifices and to myriads of holy places.

9-18. By fasting on a Jayantl-day, one gets the fruit that is obtained by him who gives a thousand cows everyday. By fasting on a Jayanti-day he obtains the same fruit as by (the gift of) a thousand bharas of gold at the time of (the auspiciou^ness) of the planet sun. By fasting on a Jayanti-day he obtains the same fruit as by giving thousands of black antelope-hides and hundreds of Sheshamum-cows. By fasting on a Jayanti-day a man gets that fruit which he obtains by offering thousands of crores daughters (in marriage). A man gets that fruit by fasting on a Jayanti-day which he obtains by giving this earth with the oceans. By fasting on a Jayanti-day he obtains the fruit which he obtains by constructing a well, a pond etc. in a temple. By fasting on a Jayantiday a man obtains the same fruit as he, being devoted, does by doing (service) to his mother, father and preceptor. That merit which is obtained by those who, of a truthful vow, have made themselves blessed by resorting to a sacred place for the removal of a calamity, is obtained by fasting on a Jayantl-day. That religious merit which a man obtains by bathing in Ganga or Narmada, or in the water of Sarasvati. is obtained by him by fasting on a Jayanti-day. By fasting on a Jayantl-day a man obtains that fruit which the performers of a sraddha in honour of their dead ancestors on a new moon day, obtain.

19a. O grandsire, tell me, who formerly observed (a fast on) the Jayanti-day? Brahma said: I9b-26a. (The fast on) the Jayanti-day was formerly observed by Kartavirya, Karna, the intelligent Kumara (i.e. Kartikeya), by Sagara, Dillpa — the descendant of Kakutstha, by Gautama, Gargya, the intelligent son of Jamadagni(i.e. Parasurama); so also it was formerly observed by Valmiki, and the good son of Draupadi. (The fast on) the eighth of the bright half of Bhadrapada gives the desired objects. The eighth day is said to be of special importance when in union with the sun. For pleasing the disc-holder (i.e. Vishnu), it should be observed every year. The sin earned in crores of existences vanishes in a short time. Having kept awake during the night, a man with his senses controlled, should devoutly worship (Vishnu) separately with sandal, flowers and offerings of food. O brahmana, the sin earned deliberately or without knowledge, of him who observes a fast on a Jayanti-day, perishes in half a watch, by the grace of the son of Devaki (i.e. Krishna).

26b-37. There is no doubt that those mean men who eat when the day of Jayanti has arrived (i.e. on a Jayantiday) suffer the sin produced in the three worlds. All the holy places like the ocean, all the places (which are) the abodes of the liberated, remain in all the parts of the house of him who observes the Jayanti-vow. All the holy places and deities live in the body of that man who devoutly observes (a fast on) the Jayanti-day, dear to Krishna. O great sage, I have not seen in the Vedas or the Puranas a vow equal or superior to the vow of Krishna-Radhastami. The man who does not devoutly observe

1576 Padma Pur ana it, would be (born as) a cruel demon. O brahmana, that foolish man who eats (food) on a Jayanti-day as on the day (sacred) to Vishnu, obtains (i.e. goes to) a great hell. Due to his taking food on a Jayanti-day, one hundred and one preceding and succeeding (members of) his family would fall into a terrible hell. O best sage, what is the use of crores of vows, if a fast is observed when Jayanti would be (i. e. fall) on a Wednesday (when the Moon is) in unison with RohinI? (A fast on) a Jayanti-day observed according to the proper rule, destroys sin in the Krtaage, Treta-age, Dvapara-age and Kali-age. The sin earned from birth, of him who, keeping awake, causes to read aloud the Purana of Vishnu, burns like a heap of cotton. The sin earned in a crore of existences, of the man who devoutly listens to the Purana on a day (sacred) to Vishnu perishes at that moment only. On the day (sacred) to Vishnu a man should honour a suppliant, O sage. He liberates a crore (of the members) of his family and is honoured in Vishnu's world.

38-50. A man who does not observe a fast on a Jayantiday and is averse to it, being bereft of all virtue, certainly goes to hell. A man should worship (Vishnu) with sandal, flowers, incense, and lamps full of ghee, and should give a present to a brahmana. O brahmana, that man who celebrates Jayanti in this manner, would, due to his devotion, liberate twentyone members of (his family). In his house there would be no misfortune, no widowhood, no quarrel, so also no opposition from his children. He never sees (i.e. experiences) loss of wealth. He who observes a fast on a Jayanti-day, obtains all the objects desired by him, and he goes to Vishnu's heaven. Those who fix their mind on observing the Jayanti-vow and are very much devoted to Vishnu, are blessed, are well-born, are wealthy and wise. Whatever sacred places, vows and restraints are there, they do not deserve (i.e. are not equal to) even the sixteenth part of the Jayanti-day. O child, he who with his wife observes (a fast on) the Radha-Krishnastami day in both the fortnights of Bhadrapada, reaches Vishnu's proximity. He who always observes the merit-giving vow, who observes a fast on a Jayanti-day, goes to Vishnu's Vaikuntha. Jayanti, dear to Vishnu, quickly destroys the sin due to want of good conduct, (having) fallen (or been expelled) from the family, (being) deprived of fame, and birth in a bad stock. He who observes a fast on a Jayanti, completely burns all sins comparable to Meru, and those like the murder of abrahmana. He who desires a son gets a son observing a fast on the Jayantl-day, who desires wealth obtains wealth, who desires salvation obtains salvation. Even Yama is afraid of those who greatly fix their mind on observing (a fast on) the Jayanti-day. They reach the highest position. Siita said:

51-53. Having (thus) told Narada (about Jayanti), he (i.e. Brahma) went as he had come. O sage, O brahmana, I have also told you what was asked by you. They too, who devoutly listen to the importance of Jayanti, go to the highest abode (after being) freed from all sins. O brahmaria, similarly sinful men who see the reader of a Purana and him who observes the Jayanti-vow, go to the highest place.

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