विशेषाच्छुक्लपक्षे चेत्सूर्यवारेण सप्तमी । उपोष्य यो नरो भक्त्या रात्रौ कुर्वीत जागरम्
viśeṣācchuklapakṣe cetsūryavāreṇa saptamī | upoṣya yo naro bhaktyā rātrau kurvīta jāgaram
«وخاصةً إن وافق في النصف المضيء (شُكلا-بكشا) اليومُ القمري السابعُ يومَ الأحد: فالرجلُ الذي يصومُ تعبُّدًا ويُحيي الليلَ ساهرًا…»
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya
Tirtha: Somanātha (Prabhāsa-kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Devotee undertakes a bright-fortnight Sunday observance: fasting by day, keeping vigil at night in Somnātha’s precinct with lamps, hymns, and attentive worship.
Devotion is intensified through disciplined austerity—fasting and night-vigil—performed at especially auspicious calendrical alignments.
Somanātha is the implied focal tirtha whose power is accessed through this vrata discipline.
Upoṣa (fasting) and jāgaraṇa (night vigil), particularly when Śukla Saptamī coincides with Sunday (Sūrya-vāra).