गुरुवार, 1 जनवरी 2026
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प्रदोष व्रत
✦महत्त्व
The thirteenth tithi at twilight — the hour and a half around sunset when Śiva, having drunk the poison of the churned ocean, danced between the horns of Nandī for the joy of the gods. Worship in this window is held to please him swiftly; a Monday (Soma) or Saturday (Śani) Pradoṣa is prized most.
📜शास्त्रों की कथा
Skanda Purāṇa, Brāhma-khaṇḍa, Brahmottara-khaṇḍa 6–7; Bhāgavata Purāṇa 8.7
When the hālāhala poison rose from the churned ocean and scorched the worlds, the gods fled to Kailāsa. Śiva, in compassion, gathered the poison in his palm and drank it; Pārvatī pressed his throat, and it stayed there, turning it blue — Nīlakaṇṭha. The Skanda Purāṇa tells that on the thirteenth, at dusk, he danced in gladness while the gods stood round in worship, and relates how a destitute widow’s son and an orphaned prince, taught the Pradoṣa vow by the sage Śāṇḍilya, regained a kingdom by it.
🌙व्रत
A fast from sunrise, broken after the twilight worship; kept on both thirteenths of the month.
🔥पूजा और हवन
In the pradoṣa window: abhiṣeka of the liṅga with milk and water, bilva leaves, lamp and incense; Nandī is worshipped first and the liṅga viewed between his horns; the pradakṣiṇā is done in the half-circle Soma-sūtra manner; the Śiva-pradoṣa-stotra and Rudram are recited.
ॐमन्त्र और जप 2
ॐ नमः शिवाय ॥
oṃ namaḥ śivāya ||
अर्थ: Salutation to Śiva, the auspicious one.
फल: The five-syllable mantra at the heart of the Yajurveda — purifies the five elements of the body and steadies the mind in Śiva.
ॐ त्र्यम्बकं यजामहे सुगन्धिं पुष्टिवर्धनम् ।
उर्वारुकमिव बन्धनान्मृत्योर्मुक्षीय माऽमृतात् ॥
oṃ tryambakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭivardhanam | urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyor mukṣīya mā’mṛtāt ||
अर्थ: We worship the three-eyed Lord, fragrant, the nourisher of all; as a ripe gourd is freed from its stalk, may he free us from death, not from immortality.
फल: The great death-conquering mantra — japa of 108 for health, long life, recovery from illness and fearlessness.
📖शास्त्रीय सन्दर्भ 2
- Skanda Purāṇa, Brahmottara-khaṇḍa 6–7
- Bhāgavata Purāṇa 8.7