Uttara-khaṇḍa · Chapter 65
Sourceनारद उवाच- चातुर्मास्यव्रतानां च प्रब्रूह्युद्यापनं विभो । उद्यापने कृते सर्वं संपूर्णं भवति ध्रुवम् १। महादेव उवाच- व्रतं कृत्वा महाभाग यदि नोद्यापनं चरेत् । यस्तु कर्त्ता कर्मणां स न सम्यक्फलभाक्भवेत् २। व्रतवैकल्यमासाद्य कुष्ठी चांधः प्रजायते । एतस्मात्कारणाच्चैव कुर्यादुद्यापनं द्विज ३। गृहीत्वा नियमानेतान्पालयित्वा यथाविधि । सुप्तोत्थिते जगन्नाथे गत्वा ब्राह्मणसंनिधौ ४। क्षमापयेद्देवदेवं यथाविधि च विस्तरात् । तैलत्यागे घृतं दद्याद्घृतत्यागे पयः स्मृतम् ५। मौने पिंडास्तिला देयाः सहिरण्या द्विजातये । भोजने भोजनं दद्याद्दध्योदनसमन्वितम् ६। अन्नं दद्याद्विशेषेण हिरण्येन समन्वितम् । अन्नदानान्मुनिश्रेष्ठ विष्णुलोके महीयते ७। पालाशपात्रे यो भुंक्ते नरो मासचतुष्टयम् । भाजनं घृतपूर्णं तु दद्यादुद्यापने द्विज ८। षड्रसं भोजनं दद्याद्ब्राह्मणे नक्तभोजने । अयाचिते ह्यनड्वाहं सहिरण्यं प्रदापयेत् ९। माषं त्यजन्मुनिश्रेष्ठ गां च दद्यात्सवत्सकाम् । धात्रीस्नाने नरो दद्यात्स्वर्णं माषिकमेवच १०। फलानां नियमे चैव फलानि च प्रदापयेत् । धान्यानां नियमे धान्यमथवा शालयः स्मृताः ११। तद्वद्भूशयने शय्यां सतूलां गेंदुकान्विताम् । ब्रह्मचर्यं कृतं येन चातुर्मास्ये द्विजोत्तम १२। दंपत्योर्भोजनं देयमुभयोर्भक्तिपूर्वकम् । सभोगं दक्षिणोपेतं सशाकं लवणं तथा १३। नित्यस्नाने नरो दद्यान्निस्नेहे सर्पिः सक्तवः । नखकेशव्रते चैव प्रादेशं परिकल्पयेत् १४। उपानहौ प्रदातव्यौ उपानहविवर्जनात् । आमिषस्य परित्यागात्सवत्सा कपिला स्मृता १५। नित्यं दीपप्रदो यस्तु सौवर्णं दीपमावहेत् । तं दीपं घृतसंयुक्तं दद्याच्चैव द्विजन्मने १६। विष्णुभक्ताय विप्राय परिपूर्णव्रतेप्सया । शाकस्य नियमे शाकं माषे सौवर्णमाषकम् १७। मैथुनानां तु नियमे रौप्यं दद्याद्दिवजातये । नागवल्ल्यास्तु नियमे कर्पूरं सहरिण्यकम् १८। कालेकाले द्विजश्रेष्ठ यत्कृतं नियमेन तु । तत्तद्देयं विशेषेण परलोकगतीप्सया १९। आदौ स्नानादिकं कृत्वा विष्णोरग्रे प्रकाशयेत् । अनादिनिधनो देवः शंखचक्रगदाधरः । तस्याग्रे के न कुर्वंति यतो विष्णुस्तु पापहा २०। इति श्रीपाद्मे महापुराणे पंचपंचाशत्साहस्र्यां संहितायामुत्तरखंडे उमापतिनारदसंवादे चातुर्मास्योद्यापनंनाम पंचषष्टितमोऽध्यायः ६५।
nārada uvāca- cāturmāsyavratānāṃ ca prabrūhyudyāpanaṃ vibho | udyāpane kṛte sarvaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ bhavati dhruvam 1| mahādeva uvāca- vrataṃ kṛtvā mahābhāga yadi nodyāpanaṃ caret | yastu karttā karmaṇāṃ sa na samyakphalabhākbhavet 2| vratavaikalyamāsādya kuṣṭhī cāṃdhaḥ prajāyate | etasmātkāraṇāccaiva kuryādudyāpanaṃ dvija 3| gṛhītvā niyamānetānpālayitvā yathāvidhi | suptotthite jagannāthe gatvā brāhmaṇasaṃnidhau 4| kṣamāpayeddevadevaṃ yathāvidhi ca vistarāt | tailatyāge ghṛtaṃ dadyādghṛtatyāge payaḥ smṛtam 5| maune piṃḍāstilā deyāḥ sahiraṇyā dvijātaye | bhojane bhojanaṃ dadyāddadhyodanasamanvitam 6| annaṃ dadyādviśeṣeṇa hiraṇyena samanvitam | annadānānmuniśreṣṭha viṣṇuloke mahīyate 7| pālāśapātre yo bhuṃkte naro māsacatuṣṭayam | bhājanaṃ ghṛtapūrṇaṃ tu dadyādudyāpane dvija 8| ṣaḍrasaṃ bhojanaṃ dadyādbrāhmaṇe naktabhojane | ayācite hyanaḍvāhaṃ sahiraṇyaṃ pradāpayet 9| māṣaṃ tyajanmuniśreṣṭha gāṃ ca dadyātsavatsakām | dhātrīsnāne naro dadyātsvarṇaṃ māṣikamevaca 10| phalānāṃ niyame caiva phalāni ca pradāpayet | dhānyānāṃ niyame dhānyamathavā śālayaḥ smṛtāḥ 11| tadvadbhūśayane śayyāṃ satūlāṃ geṃdukānvitām | brahmacaryaṃ kṛtaṃ yena cāturmāsye dvijottama 12| daṃpatyorbhojanaṃ deyamubhayorbhaktipūrvakam | sabhogaṃ dakṣiṇopetaṃ saśākaṃ lavaṇaṃ tathā 13| nityasnāne naro dadyānnisnehe sarpiḥ saktavaḥ | nakhakeśavrate caiva prādeśaṃ parikalpayet 14| upānahau pradātavyau upānahavivarjanāt | āmiṣasya parityāgātsavatsā kapilā smṛtā 15| nityaṃ dīpaprado yastu sauvarṇaṃ dīpamāvahet | taṃ dīpaṃ ghṛtasaṃyuktaṃ dadyāccaiva dvijanmane 16| viṣṇubhaktāya viprāya paripūrṇavratepsayā | śākasya niyame śākaṃ māṣe sauvarṇamāṣakam 17| maithunānāṃ tu niyame raupyaṃ dadyāddivajātaye | nāgavallyāstu niyame karpūraṃ sahariṇyakam 18| kālekāle dvijaśreṣṭha yatkṛtaṃ niyamena tu | tattaddeyaṃ viśeṣeṇa paralokagatīpsayā 19| ādau snānādikaṃ kṛtvā viṣṇoragre prakāśayet | anādinidhano devaḥ śaṃkhacakragadādharaḥ | tasyāgre ke na kurvaṃti yato viṣṇustu pāpahā 20| iti śrīpādme mahāpurāṇe paṃcapaṃcāśatsāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāmuttarakhaṃḍe umāpatināradasaṃvāde cāturmāsyodyāpanaṃnāma paṃcaṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ 65|
English translation
Nārada said :
1. O lord, tell me about bringing to the conclusion the vows in the Cāturmāsya . (For) when the vows are (properly) concluded, everything certainly becomes complete.
Mahādeva said :
2-20. If, O magnanimous one, he who observes a vow, does not bring it to the (proper) conclusion, then he would not get the proper fruit. He, having had a deficiency in the vow becomes a leper or blind. For this reason, (a man) should bring the vow to (proper) conclusion. Having accepted these vows and observed them duly, he should go to a brāhmaṇa after Viṣṇu who had slept, gets up. He should, duly and in detail, apologise to the god of gods. If he had avoided (the use of) oil during the Cāturmāsya, he should give ghee (to a brāhmaṇa); and if he had avoided (using) ghee (during the Cāturmāsya) he should offer milk (to a brāhmaṇa). After observing silence he should give sesamum-seeds to a brāhmaṇa. If (he had avoided) meal (in the Cāturmāsya) he should offer a meal rich in curd and rice to a brāhmaṇa. He should especially give food along with gold. O best sage, by giving food (to a brāhmaṇa) he is honoured in the world of Viṣṇu. The man who eats from the pot (i.e. plate) made from palāśa (-leaves) for the four months, should give (to a brāhmaṇa) a pot full of ghee, O brāhmaṇa. When he has eaten only at night (during the four months), he should give a meal with the six flavours to a brāhmaṇa. He should give a bull with gold to a brāhmaṇa who does not ask for it. He who had abandoned beans should give (a brāhmaṇa) a cow with her calf, O best sage. On having bathed (with water mixed) with dhātrī , he should give gold of the weight of a māṣa . If he had observed the vow of (not eating) fruits, he should give fruits. For the vow of (not eating) grains, he should give grains. Or rice is said (to be given). Similarly for (his vow of) sleeping on the ground, he should give a cotton -bed with a pillow. O best brāhmaṇa, he who had observed celibacy during the Cāturmāsya, should devoutly give food to a brāhmaṇa couple with objects of pleasure, dakṣiṇā , with vegetables and salt. If a man has bathed every day without (having applied) oil (to his body), he should give ghee and barley. If he had observed the vow of (growing) his nails and hair, he should give a place. If he had avoided (the use of) sandals, he should give sandals. On having avoided flesh, a cow with a calf is said to be given. He who has offered a lamp every day, should offer a golden lamp. And he should give that lamp with ghee to a brāhmaṇa. For the vow of (avoiding) vegetables, and for that of (avoiding) beans, he should (respectively) give vegetables and gold weighing a māṣa to a brāhmaṇa, Viṣṇu’s devotee, if he desires fulfilment of his vow. For the vow of (avoiding) sexual unions he should give silver to a brāhmaṇa; and for that of nāgavallī (i.e. a tāmbūla ), (he should give) camphor along with gold. O best brāhmaṇa, that which is from time to time done for the vow should especially be given with a desire to go to heaven to a brāhmaṇa. Having first bathed, he should observe the vows before Viṣṇu. The god, holding a conch, a disc and a mace is without a beginning and an end. Who do not observe (a vow) before him, since Viṣṇu destroys sins?
Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 44638, revision 336461 (2022-04-22T22:31:46Z). English is N. A. Deshpande’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-padma-purana/d/doc365642.html and the ten-volume archival witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.