Vamana Purana — Vishnu's Sleep (Ashunya-Shayana), Shloka 48
The Caturmasya Observances and the Rite of Vishnu’s Sleep (Aśūnya-Śayana) and Shiva’s Monthly Vows
नैवेद्यं सघृतं दद्यात् ताम्रपात्रे गुडोदनम् दक्षिणां च द्विजातिभ्यो नैवेद्यसहितां मुने वासोयुगं प्रीणयेच्च रुद्रमुच्चार्य नामतः
naivedyaṃ saghṛtaṃ dadyāt tāmrapātre guḍodanam dakṣiṇāṃ ca dvijātibhyo naivedyasahitāṃ mune vāsoyugaṃ prīṇayecca rudramuccārya nāmataḥ
घी सहित नैवेद्य अर्पित करे—ताम्रपात्र में गुड़-ओदन। हे मुने, द्विजातियों को नैवेद्य सहित दक्षिणा दे। तथा रुद्र के नामों का उच्चारण करके वस्त्र-युग्म अर्पित कर उन्हें प्रसन्न करे।
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FAQs
Worship is completed by generosity and social obligation: offerings to the deity are paired with giving (dakṣiṇā) to learned recipients, integrating devotion with dāna-dharma.
This is dharma/ācāra instruction (vrata-vidhi and dāna), not cosmology or genealogy; it functions as practical religious law embedded in the Purāṇic narrative frame.
Copper vessels are ritually valued for purity; ghee and sweet rice symbolize nourishment and auspicious offering. Rudra’s satisfaction through nāma-utterance and cloth-gift emphasizes both mantra (sound) and dāna (substance) as complementary modes of propitiation.