{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/db/bk11ch19.htm","path":"hin/db/bk11ch19.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/db/bk11ch19.htm","text":"THE ELEVENTH BOOK\nChapter XIX\nOn the midday Sandhy\u00e2\n1-24. N\u00e2r\u00e2yana said :-- O N\u00e2rada! Now I am speaking of the auspicious midday Sandhy\u00e2, the practice of which leads to the wonderfully excellent results. Listen. Here the \u00c2chamana and other things are similar to those of the morning Sandhy\u00e2. Only in meditation (Dhy\u00e2nam) there is some difference. I will now speak of that. The name of the midday G\u00e2yatr\u00ee is S\u00e2vitr\u00ee. She is ever a youthful maiden, of white colour, three-eyed; She holds in Her one hand a rosary, in Her other hand a trident and with Her two other hands She makes signs to Her Bhaktas to dispel fear and to grant boons. Riding on the bull, She recites the Yayur Vedas; She is the Rudra S\u2019akti with T\u00e2mo gunas and She resides in Brahmaloka, She daily traverses in the path of the Sun. She is M\u00e2y\u00e2 Dev\u00ee, beginningless; I bow down to Her. After meditating on the \u00c2dy\u00e2 Dev\u00ee Bhagavat\u00ee perform \u00c2chamanas and other things as in the morning Sandhy\u00e2. Now, about the offering of Arghya (an offer of green grass, rice, etc., made in worshipping a God or Br\u00e2hman). Collect flowers for Arghya; in the absence of flowers, the Bael leaves and water will serve the purpose. Facing the Sun, and looking upwards, offer the Arghya to the Sun upwards. Then perform other acts as in the morning Sandhy\u00e2. In midday, some offer Arghya to the Sun, only with the recitation of the G\u00e2yatr\u00ee mantra. But that is not approved of by the tradition and community; there is the likelihood of the whole work being thwarted or rendered fruitless. For, in the morning and evening Sandhy\u00e2s, the R\u00e2ksashas named the Mandeh\u00e2s become\nready to devour the Sun. This is stated in the S\u2019rutis. Therefore the midday offering of the Arghya is not for the destruction of the Daityas but for the satisfaction of the Dev\u00ee; so with the mantra \u201c\u00c2krisnena, etc.,\u201d the offering of Arghya can be effected; and the reciting of the infallible G\u00e2yatr\u00ee mantra is only to create disturbance in the shape of thwarting the action. So in the morning and evening, the Br\u00e2hmana is to offer the S\u00fbry\u00e2rghya, repeating the G\u00e2yatr\u00ee and Pranava; and in the midday to offer flowers and water with the mantra \u201c\u00c2krisnena, rajas\u00e2 etc.,\u201d else it will go against the S\u2019ruti. In the absence of flowers, the Durba grass, etc., can be offered carefully as the Arghya; and the full fruits of the Sandhy\u00e2\nwill be secured. O Best of Devarsis! Now hear the important points in the Tarpanam (peace offerings). Thus :--\n\u201cOm Bhuvah purusam tarpay\u00e2mi namo namah.\u201d\n\u201cOm Yajurvedam tarpay\u00e2mi namo namah.\u201d\n\u201cOm Mandalam tarpay\u00e2mi namo namah.\u201d\n\u201cOm Hiranyagarbham tarpay\u00e2mi namo namah.\u201d\n\u201cOm antar\u00e2tm\u00e2nam tarpay\u00e2mi namo namah.\u201d\n\u201cOm S\u00e2vitr\u00eem tarpay\u00e2mi namo namah.\u201d\n\u201cOm Devam\u00e2taram tarpay\u00e2mi namo namah.\u201d\n\u201cOm S\u00e2mkritim tarpay\u00e2mi namo namah.\u201d\n\u201cOm Yuvat\u00eem sandhy\u00e2m tarpay\u00e2mi namo namah.\u201d\n\u201cOm Rudr\u00e2n\u00eem tarpay\u00e2mi namo namah.\u201d\n\u201cOm N\u00eemrij\u00e2m tarpay\u00e2mi namo namah.\u201d\n\u201cOm Bhurbhuvah Svah purusam tarpay\u00e2mi namo namah.\u201d\nThus finish the midday Sandhy\u00e2 mga Tarpanam. Now, with your hands raised high up towards the Sun, worship Him by the two mantras, praising thus :-- \u201cOm Udutyam J\u00e2tavedasam, etc.,\u201d \u201cOm Chitram Dev\u00e2n\u00e2m, etc.\u201d Next repeat the G\u00e2yatr\u00ee. Hear its method. In the morning, repeat the G\u00e2yatri at the proper moment with hands raised; in the evening time with hands lowered and in the midday with hands over the breast. Begin with the middle phalanx (joint) of the nameless finger, then the phalanx at its root, then the phalanx at the root of the little finger, its middle phalanx and its top, then the tops of the nameless, fore and ring fingers, then the middle and finally the root of the ring finger (in the direction of the hands of the watch; avoiding the middle and root phalanx of the middle finger). Thus ten times it is repeated. In this way if the G\u00e2yatr\u00ee be repeated one thousand times, the sins arising from killing a cow, father, mother, from causing abortions, going to the wife of one\u2019s Guru, stealing a Br\u00e2hmana\u2019s property, a Br\u00e2hman\u2019s field, drinking wine, etc., all are destroyed. Also the sins acquired in three births by mind, word, or by the enjoyments of sensual objects are thereby then and there instantly destroyed. All the labours of him, who works hard in the study of the Vedas without knowing the G\u00e2yatr\u00ee, are useless. Therefore if you compare on the one hand the study of the four Vedas with the reciting of the G\u00e2yatr\u00ee, then the G\u00e2yatr\u00ee Japam stands higher. Thus I have spoken to you of the rules of the midday Sandhy\u00e2. Now I am speaking of Brahm\u00e2 Yaj\u00f1\u00e2. Hear.\nHere ends the Nineteenth Chapter of the Eleventh Book on the midday Sandhy\u00e2 in the Mah\u00e2pur\u00e2nam S\u2019r\u00ee Mad Dev\u00ee Bh\u00e2gavatam of 18,000 verses by Maharsi Veda Vy\u00e2sa.","title":"The Devi Bhagavatam: The Eleventh Book: Chapter 19","type":"page"}