Karttika
Created by Jijith Nadumuri at 27 Feb 2010 10:06 and updated at 27 Feb 2010 10:06
Mahabharata: 18 Parvas
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Mbh.3.82.3995 | That man in special who visits Pushkara on the full moon of the month of Karttika, acquireth ever-lasting regions in the abode of Brahma. |
Mbh.3.82.4000 | The merit of one who performeth the Agni-hotra for full one hundred years, is equal to that of him who resideth for the single month of Karttika in Pushkara. |
Mbh.3.82.4096 | One should proceed, next, to the inaccessible tirtha of Shasayana, where the cranes, O Bharata, disappearing in the form of sasas, re-appear every year in the month of Karttika, and bathe, O blessed chief of the Bharata race, in the Sarsawati. |
Mbh.13.115.10341 | Even this is my opinion, In the lighted fortnight of the month of Karttika in especial, one should abstain from honey and meat. |
Mbh.13.115.10344 | He who abstains for the whole month of Karttika from meat of every kind, transcends all kinds of woe and lives in complete happiness. |
Mbh.13.115.10346 | Many kings in ancient days, O son of Pritha, who had constituted themselves the souls of all creatures and who were conversant with the truths of all things, viz, Soul and Not-soul, had abstained from flesh either for the whole of the month of Karttika or for the whole of the lighted fortnight in that month. |
Mbh.13.115.10352 | These other kings also, viz, Syenachitra, O monarch, and Somaka and Vrika and Raivata and Rantideva and Vasu and Srinjaya, and Dushmanta and Karushma and Rama and Alarka and Nala, and Virupaswa and Nimi and Janaka of great intelligence, and Aila and Prithu and Virasena, and Ikshvaku, and Sambhu, and Sweta, and Sagara, and Aja and Dhundhu and Suvahu, and Haryaswa and Kshupa and Bharata, O monarch, did not eat flesh for the month of Karttika and as the consequence thereof attained to heaven, and endued with prosperity, blazed forth with effulgence in the region of Brahman, adored by Gandharvas and surrounded by thousand damsels of great beauty. |
Mbh.13.130.11173 | Hence, one should give away a Kapila cow at that Pushkara which is regarded as the senior of the two Tirthas known by that name on the day of the full moon in the month of Karttika. |
Mbh.13.132.11218 | The eight elephants standing in the eight quarters said, On the auspicious eighth day of the dark fortnight in the month of Karttika when the constellation Aslesha is in the ascendant, one should make gifts of treacle and rice. |
Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice. |
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