hindu-devotional-texts/src/kathas/solah-somvar/vidhi.ts

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import type { KathaParagraph } from '../../types.js'

const vidhi: KathaParagraph[] = [
  {
    english:
      'The vrat of the sixteen Mondays — the Solah Somvar Vrat — is kept in honour of Lord Shiva on sixteen consecutive Mondays, and is completed with an udyapan on the seventeenth Monday. Before beginning, one takes a sankalpa before Lord Shiva to keep the full count of Mondays. On each Monday the one keeping the vrat bathes in the morning and observes a fast, taking a single saltless meal.',
  },
  {
    english:
      'The worship is offered before a Shiva linga, at a temple or at home. The linga is bathed with water, with milk, and with panchamrita, while "Om Namah Shivaya" is recited. Bilva (bel) leaves, flowers, akshat, and chandan are offered, and a lamp and incense are lit. The devotee chants "Om Namah Shivaya", and may also recite the Shiva Chalisa or the Maha Mrityunjaya mantra.',
  },
  {
    english:
      'The prasad of this vrat is churma — roasted wheat flour mixed with ghee and gur (jaggery). It is made into three parts: one is offered to Lord Shiva, one is given away to others, and one is kept by the one fasting to break the fast with. The Solah Somvar Vrat Katha is read or heard, and the aarti of Shiva is sung.',
  },
  {
    english:
      'When the sixteen Mondays are complete, the vrat is concluded with an udyapan on the seventeenth Monday. A fuller worship of Shiva is performed — a Rudrabhishek, with a havan — and Brahmins are fed, dakshina is given, and the prasad is shared. Without this udyapan the vrat is held to be unfinished.',
  },
]

export default vidhi