Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 46
Varṇāśrama Saṁskāras, Upanayana Windows, Brahmacārin Ācāra, and Anadhyāya Prohibitions
महाभरण्यां विप्रेद्रं श्रवणद्वादशीदिने । भाद्रपदापरपक्षे द्वितीयायां तथैव च ॥ ४६ ॥
mahābharaṇyāṃ vipredraṃ śravaṇadvādaśīdine | bhādrapadāparapakṣe dvitīyāyāṃ tathaiva ca || 46 ||
হে ব্রাহ্মণশ্রেষ্ঠ! মহাভরণী নক্ষত্রে, শ্রবণ-দ্বাদশীর দিনে, এবং ভাদ্রপদের কৃষ্ণপক্ষের দ্বিতীয়াতেও (এটি পালনীয়)।
Sanatkumara (in instruction to Narada)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
It highlights that the efficacy of a prescribed religious observance (vrata/rite) is strengthened by performing it on specific auspicious calendrical combinations—tithi (lunar day), pakṣa (fortnight), māsa (month), and nakṣatra (asterism).
By directing the devotee to observe the rite on sacred time-markers, it frames bhakti as disciplined worship aligned with dharmic time—devotion expressed through correctly timed vrata and remembrance of the deity.
Jyotiṣa (Vedāṅga astrology/astronomy): it uses nakṣatra (Mahābharaṇī, Śravaṇa), tithi (dvādaśī, dvitīyā), and the Bhādrapada kṛṣṇa-pakṣa to specify ritual timing.