Varaha Purana 137.56: Adhyaya 137, Shloka 56
The Tale of the Vulture and the She-Jackal: The Māhātmya of the Saukarava Sacred Field
वैशाख द्वादशीं प्राप्य स्नायाद्यो विधिपूर्वकम् ॥ दशवर्षसहस्राणि दश वर्षशतानि च
vaiśākha dvādaśīṃ prāpya snāyād yo vidhipūrvakam || daśavarṣasahasrāṇi daśa varṣaśatāni ca
Wenn die Dvādaśī, der zwölfte Mondtag im Monat Vaiśākha, eintritt, erlangt derjenige, der nach vorgeschriebener Weise badet, Verdienst, das sich über zehntausend Jahre und zudem über zehn Hunderte von Jahren erstreckt.
Varāha (default speaker framework; explicit speaker not stated in fragment)
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It is evidence for Purāṇic calendrical religion, linking lunar dates (dvādaśī) and month (Vaiśākha) with prescribed bathing rites and quantified merit rhetoric.
No specific site is named here; the instruction is calendrical and procedural rather than topographic.
The verse promotes disciplined observance—performing rites 'according to procedure'—as a valued form of self-regulation.
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