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Chapter 4

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Brahma-khaṇḍa · Chapter 4

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शौनक उवाच- जयंत्याः सूत माहात्म्यं कदा सा क्रियते जनैः । कथयस्व मयि त्वं वै पोतः संसारसागरे १। सूत उवाच- शृणु विप्र प्रवक्ष्यामि यत्पृष्टो मुनिसत्तम । पुरा ब्रह्मा नारदेन पृष्ट एतत्सुरालये २। नारद उवाच- जयंत्याश्चैव माहात्म्यं कथयस्व पितामह । यच्छ्रुत्वाहं गमिष्यामि तद्विष्णोः परमं पदम् ३। ब्रह्मोवाच- शृणुष्वावहितो विप्र तवाग्रे कथयाम्यहम् । जयंत्या उपवासेन विष्णुलोकं स गच्छति ४। स्मरणात्कीर्तनात्पापं सप्तजन्मार्जितं मुने । जयंती दहते तच्च किं पुनः सोपवासकृत् ५। जन्माष्टमी च नवमी चैत्रे मासि सिता शुभा । कृष्णा चतुर्दशी कुंभे मेषे शुक्ला चतुर्दशी ६। दुर्गाष्टम्याश्विने शुक्ला द्वादशी श्रवणान्विता । महापुण्याश्च शुभदा जयंत्यः षट्प्रकीर्तिताः ७। कृष्णजन्माष्टमी पूर्वा प्रसिद्धा पापनाशिनी । क्रतुकोटिसमा ह्येषा तीर्थानामयुतैः समा ८। कर्ता गवां सहस्रं तु यो ददाति दिनेदिने । तत्फलं समवाप्नोति जयंत्यां समुपोषणे ९। हेमभारसहस्रं तु कुरुक्षेत्रे रविग्रहे । तत्फलं समवाप्नोति जयंत्यां समुपोषणे १०। कृष्णाजिनसहस्राणि तिलधेनुशतानि च । तत्फलं समवाप्नोति जयंत्यां समुपोषणे ११। कन्याकोटिसहस्राणां दाने भवति यत्फलम् । तत्फलं समवाप्नोति जयंत्यां समुपोषणे १२। ससागरामिमां पृथ्वीं दत्वा यल्लभते फलम् । तत्फलं समवाप्नोति जयंत्यां समुपोषणे १३। वापीकूपतडागदि कर्तव्यं देवतालये । तत्फलं समवाप्नोति जयंत्यां समुपोषणे १४। मातापित्रोर्गुरूणां च भक्तिं युक्तः करोति यः । तत्फलं समवाप्नोति जयंत्यां समुपोषणे १५। आपदाहरणार्थाय तीर्थसेवाकृतात्मनाम् । सत्यव्रतानां यत्पुण्यं जयंत्यां समुपोषणे १६। गंगायां नर्मदायां यत्पुण्यं सारस्वते जले । स्नात्वा पुण्यमवाप्नोति जयंत्यां समुपोषणे १७। यत्पुण्यं श्राद्धकर्तॄणां पितॄणामिंदुसंक्षये । तत्फलं समवाप्नोति जयंत्यां समुपोषणे १८। नारद उवाच- केनकेन कृता पूर्वं कथयस्व पितामह । ब्रह्मोवाच- कार्तवीर्येण कर्णेन कुमारेण च धीमता १९। सगरेण दिलीपेन काकुस्थेन कृता पुरा । गौतमेन च गार्ग्येण जामदग्न्येन धीमता २०। वाल्मीकिना कृता पूर्वं द्रौपदेयेन साधुना । ददाति वांछितान्कामान्भाद्रपस्य सिताष्टमी २१। प्राजापत्यर्क्षसंयुक्ता विशेषेण मताष्टमी । वर्षेवर्षे प्रकर्तव्या प्रीत्यर्थे चक्रपाणिनः २२। कोटिजन्मार्जितं पापं मुहूर्तेन विलीयते । रात्रौ जागरणं कृत्वा निष्ठापूर्वं जितेंद्रियः २३। गंधपुष्पादिनैवेद्यैः पूजनीयः पृथक्पृथक् । एवं यः कुरुते विप्र जयंतीसमुपोषणम् २४। कोटिजन्मार्जितं पापं ज्ञानतोऽज्ञानतः कृतम् २५। प्रसादाद्देवकीसूनोर्यामार्द्धेन विलीयते । जयंतीतिथिसंप्राप्तौ भुंजते ये नराधमाः २६। त्रैलोक्यसंभवं पापं भुंजते ते न संशयः । सागराद्यानि तीर्थानि मुक्तस्थानानि सर्वशः २७। गृहे तिष्ठंति सर्वांगे जयंतीव्रतकारिणः । तस्य सर्वाणि तीर्थानि देहे तिष्ठंति देवताः २८। करोति यो नरो भक्त्या जयंतीं कृष्णवल्लभाम् । न वेदेन पुराणेन मया दृष्टं महामुने २९। तत्समं नाधिकं वापि कृष्णराधाष्टमीव्रतम् । न करोति नरो भक्त्या स भवेत्क्रूरराक्षसः ३०। यो नरोऽश्नाति मूढात्मा जयंतीवासरे द्विज । महानरकमश्नाति यथा च हरिवासरे ३१। अतीतमागतं यस्तु कुलमेकोत्तरं शतम् । पतेत्तु नरके घोरे जयंत्यां भोजनेन वै ३२। जयंती बुधवारे च रोहिण्या सहिता यदा । भवेच्च मुनिशार्दूल किं कृतैर्व्रतकोटिभिः ३३। कृते त्रेतायुगे चैव द्वापरे च कलौ युगे । कृता सम्यग्विधानेन जयंती पापनाशिनी ३४। जागरे पद्मनाभस्य पुराणं पाठयेत्तु यः । आजन्मोपार्जितं पापं दहते तूलराशिवत् ३५। यः शृणोति नरो भक्त्या पुराणं हरिवासरे । कोटिजन्मार्जितं तस्य पापं नश्यति तत्क्षणात् ३६। वासरे पद्मनाभस्य पूजयेद्वाचकं मुने । कुलकोटिं समुद्धृत्य विष्णुलोके स पूज्यते ३७। जयंत्यामुपवासेन यो नरोऽत्र पराङ्मुखः । सर्वधर्मविनिर्मुक्तो यात्यसौ नरकं ध्रुवम् ३८। गंधपुष्पैश्च धूपैश्च घृतपूर्णप्रदीपकैः । पूजयेद्भक्तिभावैश्च दद्याद्विप्राय दक्षिणाम् ३९। विधिनानेन यो विप्र जयंतीं प्रकरोति च । नरो वै तारयेद्भक्त्या पुरुषानेकविंशतिम् ४०। न दौर्भाग्यं न वैधव्यं न भवेत्कलहो गृहे । संततेर्न विरोधं च न पश्यति धनक्षयम् ४१। यान्यांश्चिकीर्षते कामान्जयंती समुपोषकः । तांस्तान्प्राप्नोति सकलान्विष्णुलोकं स गच्छति ४२। विष्णुभक्तिपरा नित्यं जयंतीव्रत मानसाः । ते धन्यास्ते कुलीनास्ते ईश्वरास्ते च पंडिताः ४३। यानि कानि च तीर्थानि व्रतानि नियमानि च । जयंतीवासरस्यैव कलां नार्हंति षोडशीम् ४४। भाद्रे वै चोभये पक्षे यः करोति सभार्यकः । राधाकृष्णाष्टमीं वत्स प्राप्नोति हरिसन्निधिम् ४५। व्रतं च पुण्यकारं च यः करोति सदा हरेः । स याति विष्णोर्वैकुंठं जयंतीसमुपोषकः ४६। आचारहीनं कुलभ्रष्टं कीर्तिहीनं कुयोनिजम् । नाशयत्याशु पापं च जयंती हरिवल्लभा ४७। मेरुतुल्यानि पापानि ब्रह्महत्यादिकानि च । स निर्दहति सर्वाणि जयंत्यां समुपोषकः ४८। पुत्रार्थी लभते पुत्रं धनार्थी लभते धनम् । मोक्षार्थी लभते मोक्षं जयंत्यां समुपोषकः ४९। जयंतीकरणे चित्तं येषां भवति तत्परम् । यमोऽपि शंकते नित्यं ते यांति परमां गतिम् ५०। सूत उवाच- कथयित्वा नारदं तु ययौ स च यथागतः । मयापि कथितं ब्रह्मन्यत्पृष्टोऽहं त्वया मुने ५१। माहात्म्यं च जयंत्या ये शृण्वंति भक्तिभावतः । तेपि यांति परं धाम विमुक्ताः सर्वपातकैः ५२। पुराणवाचकं ब्रह्मन्जयंतीव्रतिनं तथा । ये पश्यंति नराः पापास्ते यांति परमं पदम् ५३। इति श्रीपाद्मे महापुराणे ब्रह्मखंडे ब्रह्मनारदसंवादे जयंतीव्रतमाहात्म्यंनाम चतुर्थोऽध्यायः ४।

śaunaka uvāca- jayaṃtyāḥ sūta māhātmyaṃ kadā sā kriyate janaiḥ | kathayasva mayi tvaṃ vai potaḥ saṃsārasāgare 1| sūta uvāca- śṛṇu vipra pravakṣyāmi yatpṛṣṭo munisattama | purā brahmā nāradena pṛṣṭa etatsurālaye 2| nārada uvāca- jayaṃtyāścaiva māhātmyaṃ kathayasva pitāmaha | yacchrutvāhaṃ gamiṣyāmi tadviṣṇoḥ paramaṃ padam 3| brahmovāca- śṛṇuṣvāvahito vipra tavāgre kathayāmyaham | jayaṃtyā upavāsena viṣṇulokaṃ sa gacchati 4| smaraṇātkīrtanātpāpaṃ saptajanmārjitaṃ mune | jayaṃtī dahate tacca kiṃ punaḥ sopavāsakṛt 5| janmāṣṭamī ca navamī caitre māsi sitā śubhā | kṛṣṇā caturdaśī kuṃbhe meṣe śuklā caturdaśī 6| durgāṣṭamyāśvine śuklā dvādaśī śravaṇānvitā | mahāpuṇyāśca śubhadā jayaṃtyaḥ ṣaṭprakīrtitāḥ 7| kṛṣṇajanmāṣṭamī pūrvā prasiddhā pāpanāśinī | kratukoṭisamā hyeṣā tīrthānāmayutaiḥ samā 8| kartā gavāṃ sahasraṃ tu yo dadāti dinedine | tatphalaṃ samavāpnoti jayaṃtyāṃ samupoṣaṇe 9| hemabhārasahasraṃ tu kurukṣetre ravigrahe | tatphalaṃ samavāpnoti jayaṃtyāṃ samupoṣaṇe 10| kṛṣṇājinasahasrāṇi tiladhenuśatāni ca | tatphalaṃ samavāpnoti jayaṃtyāṃ samupoṣaṇe 11| kanyākoṭisahasrāṇāṃ dāne bhavati yatphalam | tatphalaṃ samavāpnoti jayaṃtyāṃ samupoṣaṇe 12| sasāgarāmimāṃ pṛthvīṃ datvā yallabhate phalam | tatphalaṃ samavāpnoti jayaṃtyāṃ samupoṣaṇe 13| vāpīkūpataḍāgadi kartavyaṃ devatālaye | tatphalaṃ samavāpnoti jayaṃtyāṃ samupoṣaṇe 14| mātāpitrorgurūṇāṃ ca bhaktiṃ yuktaḥ karoti yaḥ | tatphalaṃ samavāpnoti jayaṃtyāṃ samupoṣaṇe 15| āpadāharaṇārthāya tīrthasevākṛtātmanām | satyavratānāṃ yatpuṇyaṃ jayaṃtyāṃ samupoṣaṇe 16| gaṃgāyāṃ narmadāyāṃ yatpuṇyaṃ sārasvate jale | snātvā puṇyamavāpnoti jayaṃtyāṃ samupoṣaṇe 17| yatpuṇyaṃ śrāddhakartṝṇāṃ pitṝṇāmiṃdusaṃkṣaye | tatphalaṃ samavāpnoti jayaṃtyāṃ samupoṣaṇe 18| nārada uvāca- kenakena kṛtā pūrvaṃ kathayasva pitāmaha | brahmovāca- kārtavīryeṇa karṇena kumāreṇa ca dhīmatā 19| sagareṇa dilīpena kākusthena kṛtā purā | gautamena ca gārgyeṇa jāmadagnyena dhīmatā 20| vālmīkinā kṛtā pūrvaṃ draupadeyena sādhunā | dadāti vāṃchitānkāmānbhādrapasya sitāṣṭamī 21| prājāpatyarkṣasaṃyuktā viśeṣeṇa matāṣṭamī | varṣevarṣe prakartavyā prītyarthe cakrapāṇinaḥ 22| koṭijanmārjitaṃ pāpaṃ muhūrtena vilīyate | rātrau jāgaraṇaṃ kṛtvā niṣṭhāpūrvaṃ jiteṃdriyaḥ 23| gaṃdhapuṣpādinaivedyaiḥ pūjanīyaḥ pṛthakpṛthak | evaṃ yaḥ kurute vipra jayaṃtīsamupoṣaṇam 24| koṭijanmārjitaṃ pāpaṃ jñānato'jñānataḥ kṛtam 25| prasādāddevakīsūnoryāmārddhena vilīyate | jayaṃtītithisaṃprāptau bhuṃjate ye narādhamāḥ 26| trailokyasaṃbhavaṃ pāpaṃ bhuṃjate te na saṃśayaḥ | sāgarādyāni tīrthāni muktasthānāni sarvaśaḥ 27| gṛhe tiṣṭhaṃti sarvāṃge jayaṃtīvratakāriṇaḥ | tasya sarvāṇi tīrthāni dehe tiṣṭhaṃti devatāḥ 28| karoti yo naro bhaktyā jayaṃtīṃ kṛṣṇavallabhām | na vedena purāṇena mayā dṛṣṭaṃ mahāmune 29| tatsamaṃ nādhikaṃ vāpi kṛṣṇarādhāṣṭamīvratam | na karoti naro bhaktyā sa bhavetkrūrarākṣasaḥ 30| yo naro'śnāti mūḍhātmā jayaṃtīvāsare dvija | mahānarakamaśnāti yathā ca harivāsare 31| atītamāgataṃ yastu kulamekottaraṃ śatam | patettu narake ghore jayaṃtyāṃ bhojanena vai 32| jayaṃtī budhavāre ca rohiṇyā sahitā yadā | bhavecca muniśārdūla kiṃ kṛtairvratakoṭibhiḥ 33| kṛte tretāyuge caiva dvāpare ca kalau yuge | kṛtā samyagvidhānena jayaṃtī pāpanāśinī 34| jāgare padmanābhasya purāṇaṃ pāṭhayettu yaḥ | ājanmopārjitaṃ pāpaṃ dahate tūlarāśivat 35| yaḥ śṛṇoti naro bhaktyā purāṇaṃ harivāsare | koṭijanmārjitaṃ tasya pāpaṃ naśyati tatkṣaṇāt 36| vāsare padmanābhasya pūjayedvācakaṃ mune | kulakoṭiṃ samuddhṛtya viṣṇuloke sa pūjyate 37| jayaṃtyāmupavāsena yo naro'tra parāṅmukhaḥ | sarvadharmavinirmukto yātyasau narakaṃ dhruvam 38| gaṃdhapuṣpaiśca dhūpaiśca ghṛtapūrṇapradīpakaiḥ | pūjayedbhaktibhāvaiśca dadyādviprāya dakṣiṇām 39| vidhinānena yo vipra jayaṃtīṃ prakaroti ca | naro vai tārayedbhaktyā puruṣānekaviṃśatim 40| na daurbhāgyaṃ na vaidhavyaṃ na bhavetkalaho gṛhe | saṃtaterna virodhaṃ ca na paśyati dhanakṣayam 41| yānyāṃścikīrṣate kāmānjayaṃtī samupoṣakaḥ | tāṃstānprāpnoti sakalānviṣṇulokaṃ sa gacchati 42| viṣṇubhaktiparā nityaṃ jayaṃtīvrata mānasāḥ | te dhanyāste kulīnāste īśvarāste ca paṃḍitāḥ 43| yāni kāni ca tīrthāni vratāni niyamāni ca | jayaṃtīvāsarasyaiva kalāṃ nārhaṃti ṣoḍaśīm 44| bhādre vai cobhaye pakṣe yaḥ karoti sabhāryakaḥ | rādhākṛṣṇāṣṭamīṃ vatsa prāpnoti harisannidhim 45| vrataṃ ca puṇyakāraṃ ca yaḥ karoti sadā hareḥ | sa yāti viṣṇorvaikuṃṭhaṃ jayaṃtīsamupoṣakaḥ 46| ācārahīnaṃ kulabhraṣṭaṃ kīrtihīnaṃ kuyonijam | nāśayatyāśu pāpaṃ ca jayaṃtī harivallabhā 47| merutulyāni pāpāni brahmahatyādikāni ca | sa nirdahati sarvāṇi jayaṃtyāṃ samupoṣakaḥ 48| putrārthī labhate putraṃ dhanārthī labhate dhanam | mokṣārthī labhate mokṣaṃ jayaṃtyāṃ samupoṣakaḥ 49| jayaṃtīkaraṇe cittaṃ yeṣāṃ bhavati tatparam | yamo'pi śaṃkate nityaṃ te yāṃti paramāṃ gatim 50| sūta uvāca- kathayitvā nāradaṃ tu yayau sa ca yathāgataḥ | mayāpi kathitaṃ brahmanyatpṛṣṭo'haṃ tvayā mune 51| māhātmyaṃ ca jayaṃtyā ye śṛṇvaṃti bhaktibhāvataḥ | tepi yāṃti paraṃ dhāma vimuktāḥ sarvapātakaiḥ 52| purāṇavācakaṃ brahmanjayaṃtīvratinaṃ tathā | ye paśyaṃti narāḥ pāpāste yāṃti paramaṃ padam 53| iti śrīpādme mahāpurāṇe brahmakhaṃḍe brahmanāradasaṃvāde jayaṃtīvratamāhātmyaṃnāma caturtho'dhyāyaḥ 4|

English translation

Saunaka said :

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

Sūta said :

2. O brāhmaṇa , O best sage, listen; since I am asked, I shall tell you. This was formerly asked by Nārada from Brahma in heaven.

Nārada said :

3. O grandsire, tell me the significance of Jayantī (i.e. birth day anniversary), hearing which I shall go to that highest position of Viṣṇu .

Brahmā said :

4-8. O brāhmaṇa, listen attentively. I shall tell you. He (i.e. a man) goes to Viṣṇu’s world by fasting on a Jayantī (day). Jayantī, O sage, burns, through remembering, narrating (the account of Viṣṇu), 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 Janmāṣṭamī , the auspicious ninth day of the bright half in Caitra , the fourteenth day of the dark half of Māgha , the fourteenth day of the bright half of Caitra, the Durgāṣṭamī in Āśvina , the twelfth day of the bright half of Śrāvaṇa —these six are said to be very meritorious Jayantīs , causing auspiciousness. The Kṛṣṇajanmāṣṭamī (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 Jayantī-day, one gets the fruit that is obtained by him who gives a thousand cows everyday. By fasting on a Jayantī-day he obtains the same fruit as by (the gift of) a thousand bhāras of gold at the time of (the auspiciousness) of the planet sun. By fasting on a Jayantī-day he obtains the same fruit as by giving thousands of black antelope-hides and hundreds of sesamum-cows. By fasting on a Jayantī-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 Jayantī-day which he obtains by giving this earth with the oceans. By fasting on a Jayantī-day he obtains the fruit which he obtains by constructing a well, a pond etc. in a temple. By fasting on a Jayantī-day 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 Jayantī-day. That religious merit which a man obtains by bathing in Gaṅgā or Narmadā , or in the water of Sarasvatī , is obtained by him by fasting on a Jayantī-day. By fasting on a Jayantī-day a man obtains that fruit which the performers of a śrāddha in honour of their dead ancestors on a new moon day, obtain.

Nārada said :

19a. O grandsire, tell me, who formerly observed (a fast on) the Jayantī-day?

Brahmā said :

19b-26a. (The fast on) the Jayantī-day was formerly observed by Kārtavīrya , Karṇa , the intelligent Kumāra (i.e. Kārtikeya ), by Sagara , Dilīpa —the descendant of Kakutstha , by Gautama , Gārgya , the intelligent son of Jamadagni (i.e. Paraśurāma ); so also it was formerly observed by Vālmīki , and the good son of Draupadī . (The fast on) the eighth of the bright half of Bhādrapada 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. Viṣṇu), 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 (Viṣṇu) separately with sandal, flowers and offerings of food. O brāhmaṇa, the sin earned deliberately or without knowledge, of him who observes a fast on a Jayantī-day, perishes in half a watch, by the grace of the son of Devakī (i.e. Kṛṣṇa ).

26b-37. There is no doubt that those mean men who eat when the day of Jayantī has arrived (i.e. on a Jayantī-day) 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 Jayantī-vow. All the holy places and deities live in the body of that man who devoutly observes (a fast on) the Jayantī-day, dear to Kṛṣṇa. O great sage, I have not seen in the Vedas or the Purāṇas a vow equal or superior to the vow of Kṛṣṇa-Rādhāṣṭamī. The man who does not devoutly observe it, would be (born as) a cruel demon. O brāhmaṇa, that foolish man who eats (food) on a Jayantī-day as on the day (sacred) to Viṣṇu, obtains (i.e. goes to) a great hell. Due to his taking food on a Jayantī-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 Jayantī would be (i. e. fall) on a Wednesday (when the Moon is) in unison with Rohiṇī ? (A fast on) a Jayantī-day observed according to the proper rule, destroys sin in the Kṛta -age, Tretā -age, Dvāpara -age and Kali -age. The sin earned from birth, of him who, keeping awake, causes to read aloud the Purāṇa of Viṣṇu, burns like a heap of cotton . The sin earned in a crore of existences, of the man who devoutly listens to the Purāṇa on a day (sacred) to Viṣṇu perishes at that moment only. On the day (sacred) to Viṣṇu a man should honour a suppliant, O sage. He liberates a crore (of the members) of his family and is honoured in Viṣṇu’s world.

38-50. A man who does not observe a fast on a Jayantī-day and is averse to it, being bereft of all virtue, certainly goes to hell. A man should worship (Viṣṇu) with sandal, flowers, incense, and lamps full of ghee , and should give a present to a brāhmaṇa. O brāhmaṇa, that man who celebrates Jayantī in this manner, would, due to his devotion, liberate twenty-one 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 Jayantī-day, obtains all the objects desired by him, and he goes to Viṣṇu’s heaven. Those who fix their mind on observing the Jayantī-vow and are very much devoted to Viṣṇu, 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 Jayantī-day. O child, he who with his wife observes (a fast on) the Rādhā - Kṛṣṇāṣṭamī day in both the fortnights of Bhādrapada, reaches Viṣṇu’s proximity. He who always observes the merit-giving vow, who observes a fast on a Jayantī-day, goes to Viṣṇu’s Vaikuṇṭha . Jayantī, dear to Viṣṇu, 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 Jayantī, completely burns all sins comparable to Meru , and those like the murder of a brāhmaṇa. He who desires a son gets a son observing a fast on the Jayantī-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 Jayantī-day. They reach the highest position.

Sūta said :

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

Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 43450, revision 335786 (2022-04-15T03:15:18Z). English is N. A. Deshpande’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-padma-purana/d/doc365288.html and the ten-volume archival witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.