FASTING FROM ALL GRAINS AND BEANS MUST BE OBSERVED.
FOLLOWED BY BREAKING THE FAST ON THE NEXT DAY.

Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said, “O sages, let me offer my humble and respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Lord Hari, Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the son of Devakī and Vasudeva, by whose mercy I can describe the fast day that removes all kinds of sins. It was to the devoted Yudhiṣṭhira that Lord Kṛṣṇa glorified the twenty-four primary Ekādaśīs, which destroy sin, and now I shall recount one of those narrations to you. Great learned sages have selected these twenty-four narrations from the eighteen Puraṇas, for they are truly sublime.

Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja said, “O Lord Kṛṣṇa, O Vāsudeva, please accept my humble obeisances. Please describe to me the Ekādaśī that occurs during the light part of the month of Caitra [March-April]. What is its name, and what are its glories?”

Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa replied, “O Yudhiṣṭhira, please listen to Me attentively as I relate the ancient history of this sacred Ekādaśī, a history Vasiṣṭha Muni once related to King Dilīpa, the great-grandfather of Lord Rāmacandra.

King Dilīpa asked the great sage Vasiṣṭha, “O wise brāhmaṇa, I wish to hear about the Ekādaśī, that comes during the light part of the month of Caitra. Please describe it to me.”

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