Brahma Vaivarta Purana
Stealing the Gopis' Garments
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
121.Çri Näräyaëa Åñi said: Child, please hear from Me the way this vow is observed. This vow is called Gauri-vrata, and it is observed in the month of Märgaçirña (November-December). 122.-123.Bathing, putting on clean garments, walking to a bathing- place, and with five offerings worshiping the six deities Gaëeça, Sürya, Agni, Näräyaëa, Çiva, and Durgä, the girls began this vow. 124.-125.Marking below the bathing place a quadrangle with sandal, aguru, musk, and kuìkuma, artistically drawing in the sand a picture of ten- armed Goddess Durgä, anointing her forehead with red sindüra, painting sandal mood-dots below, . . . 126.. . . and then meditating on her, a girl should fold her hands and, reciting the following mantra, worship the goddess. 127.O fair goddess who are half of Lord Çiva's body, O beautiful and auspicious one, as you are dear to Lord Çiva, please make me dear to a handsome husband. 128.-129.After reciting this mantra, the girl should meditate on Goddess Durgä, the mother of the universe. O Närada, please hear and I will tell you this mantra, a mantra spoken in the Säma Veda, a rare and secret mantra that fulfills all desires, a mantra even the kings of sages cannot attain, a mantra the perfect beings employ to meditate on Goddess Durgä, the destroyer of calamities.
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