Brahma Vaivarta Purana
Vows, Worship, and Fasting on Sri Janmastami
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
41.In this way, at that place, one should offer many appropriate things to Lord Krsna. 42.The person following this vow should then devotedly worship the many deities there and then offer them all three palmfuls of flowers. 43.-45.In this way one should worship Sunanda, Nanda, Kumuda, the gopas, the gopis, Sri Radha, Ganesa, Karttikeya, Brahma, Siva, Parvati, Laksmi, Sarasvati, the dik-palas, the planets, Sesa, Sudarsana, the liberated associates of the Lord, and all the demigods, and one should offer obeisances to them, falling to the ground like a stick. Then one should offer food and daksina to the brahmanas. 46.Then the person following this Janmastami vow should hear the chapter of scripture describing Lord Krsna’s birth, and then he should, sitting on a seat of kusa grass, keep an all-night vigil. 47.At dawn he should perform his regular duties and then he should worship Lord Krsna. Then he should feed the brahmanas and then he should chant the glories of Lord Krsna. 48.-49.Sri Narada said: When a person follows the Janmastami vow, fasts, and keeps the all-night vigil, what result does he attain? What is the sin one commits by eating on this holy day? O best of the knowers of the Vedas, referring to the Vedas, Vedangas and ancient Samhitas, please, please describe this. 50.Sri Narayana Rsi said: If (in the dark fortnight of the month of Bhadra) even only a quarter of the astami is present at midnight, that day is considered Janmastami, the time when Lord Krsna was born.
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