पवित्रारोपण

{ pavitrāropaṇa }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

PAVITRĀROPAṆA   A Pūjāvidhi (a mode of worship). If you perform a Pavitrāropaṇa worship you will get the benefit of worshipping Viṣṇu for a year. This worship is to be conducted in the months of Āṣāḍha (July), Śrāvaṇa (August) Prauṣṭhapada (September), Āśvina (October) and Kārttika (November) A sacred Pavitra (sacred thread or ring of Kuśa grass) is to be prepared either in gold, silver, copper, cotton or silk. A specially purified cotton thread is also enough The Pavitra is to be made of three threads woven together. The Pavitra is to be made holy by reciting 108 times the Gāyatrī mantra or even half of that number is enough. Reciting 108 times or more is considered to be Uttama (best); half of it is considered Madhyama (tolerable) and less than it is considered adhama (worst). The Pavitra should then be tied to maṇḍalas and the mantra to be recited at the time of tying it, is this: Oṁ Nārāyaṇāya vidmahe Vāsudevāya Dhīmahi tanno Viṣṇuḥ pracodayāt. [Chapter 34, Agni Purāṇa] .

A dictionary, Marathi and English

The rite, in the month Shráwan̤, of casting new threads around an idol that they may be sanctified, and of thence taking them to wear.

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

पवित्रारोपण  n.  n. ‘putting on the पवित्र’, investiture with the Brāhmanical cord, ( esp.) investing the image of कृष्ण or another deity with the sacred thread, N. of a festival on the 12th day of the light half of श्रावण or अषाढ, [Pañc.]

Shabda-Sagara

पवित्रारोपण  n.  ( -णं)
1. Investiture with the Brāhminical cord.
2. In- vesting the image of KRISHṆA with it, on the twelfth of the light fortnight of Srāvana.
E. पवित्र, and आरोपण placing.

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