विशेषाच्छुक्लपक्षे चेत्सूर्यवारेण सप्तमी । उपोष्य यो नरो भक्त्या रात्रौ कुर्वीत जागरम्
viśeṣācchuklapakṣe cetsūryavāreṇa saptamī | upoṣya yo naro bhaktyā rātrau kurvīta jāgaram
ໂດຍພິເສດ ຖ້າໃນຊຸກລະປັກສະ (ຂ້າງຂຶ້ນ) ວັນສັບຕະມີຕົງກັບວັນອາທິດ: ຜູ້ໃດຖືອຸໂປສະຖະດ້ວຍພັກຕິ ແລະຢູ່ຕື່ນຕະຫຼອດຄືນ…
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).
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