Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 7:61-70

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Sri Krsna-janma-khanda

The Birth of Lord Krsna

Chapter 7: Verse 61-70

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 61.A person who rises early and chants these forty-two names attains firm devotion for Lord Krsna. His desire to serve the Lord is fulfilled. 62.Sri Narayana Rsi said: After speaking these prayers, the demigods returned to their own abode. Then a great rain suddenly fell and no one moved about in Mathura City. 63.O sage, a terrible darkness covered the night. Seven muhurtas passed and the eighth muhurta came. Note: One muhurta equals forty-eight minutes. 64.Then, at the most auspicious moments, a moment even the Vedas cannot properly glorify, a moment beyond all understanding, a moment when all auspicious planets were visible on the horizon and no inauspicious planets could be seen,... 65. ...a moment on the eighth tithi, O sage, when a half-moon had risen with the star Rohini and the auspicious Jayanti-yoga was present,... 66. ...at that moment the sun and the other planets both auspicious and inauspicious, gazed again and again at the horizon, became filled with awe, left their regular places and met in the sign Pisces. 67.Staying there, all the planets became auspicious. In this way, by the demigod Brahma’s order, all the planets happily stayed in the eleventh house for one muhurta. 68.Then the clouds rained, pleasantly cool winds blew, the earth became happy, and the ten directions became filled with joy. 69.Filled with joy, the sages, manus, yaksas, gandharvas, kinnaras, apsaras, demigods, and demigoddesses danced. 70.O Narada, the gandharva kings and the vidyadharis sang, the rivers happily flowed and the fires happily blazed.