Varaha Purana 63.7: Adhyaya 63, Shloka 7
Procedure for the Son-Obtaining Vow
Kṛṣṇāṣṭamī Observance
प्रतिमासमानेनैव विधिनोपोष्य मानवः । कृष्णाष्टमीमपुत्रोऽपि लभेत् पुत्रं न संशयः ॥ ६३.७ ॥
pratimāsamānenaiva vidhinopoṣya mānavaḥ | kṛṣṇāṣṭamīm aputro 'pi labhet putraṃ na saṃśayaḥ || 63.7 ||
जो इंसान हर महीने यह व्रत सही तरह से रखता है, उसको बेटा ज़रूर मिलता है। अगर उसके कोई बेटा नहीं भी हो, तो भी कृष्ण अष्टमी व्रत से बेटा मिल जाएगा। इसमे कोई शक नहीं।
Varāha (default, verse fragment lacks explicit speaker marker)
FAQs
It reflects the Purāṇic genre’s consolidation of vrata (observance) literature, where monthly discipline and calendrical rites are presented as socially meaningful practices within early medieval Hindu textual culture.
No geographic site is named in this verse fragment; the focus is calendrical (Kṛṣṇāṣṭamī) rather than a tīrtha or place-based tradition.
Regularity and rule-governed discipline (vidhi) in observance is emphasized; the verse frames consistent monthly practice as efficacious within the text’s ritual-ethical worldview.
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