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

const vidhi: KathaParagraph[] = [
  {
    english:
      'The Vaibhav Lakshmi Vrat is kept on Fridays, the day of Maa Lakshmi. Before beginning, one takes a sankalpa — a resolve to keep the vrat for a fixed number of Fridays, most commonly eleven or twenty-one, and to complete it with an udyapan. On the Friday the one keeping the vrat bathes in the morning and fasts through the day, taking a single simple vegetarian meal, or only the sweet prasad of the puja.',
  },
  {
    english:
      'In the evening the place of worship is cleaned, and an image of Maa Lakshmi — or a Shri Yantra, honoured as her form — is set on a clean cloth. A small heap of raw rice is made in a dish, and on it is placed a glass filled with water; a gold or silver ornament, or a coin, is set on the glass and worshipped as the form of Vaibhav Lakshmi. The image is given a tilak of kumkum and chandan.',
  },
  {
    english:
      'With a lamp and incense lit, flowers, akshat, and the tilak are offered, and Maa Lakshmi is worshipped with devotion. A sweet — kheer, or by preference something white — is offered as Naivedya; where a sweet cannot be made, sugar or gur is offered in its place. The Vaibhav Lakshmi Vrat Katha is then read or heard, and the aarti of Maa Lakshmi is sung.',
  },
  {
    english:
      'After the puja the water of the glass is poured out at a tulsi plant or about the house, and the rice is offered to the birds; the ornament is kept. The prasad is shared, and the one who has fasted breaks the fast with it. A sum of sava rupaya — one and a quarter rupees — is set aside towards the puja. The vrat is kept in this way on each Friday until the vowed number of Fridays is complete.',
  },
  {
    english:
      'When the vowed Fridays — eleven or twenty-one — are complete, the vrat is concluded with an udyapan, performed on a Friday. The puja is done as on the other Fridays, and kheer is offered. Seven married women are honoured with a meal and with gifts, and seven copies of the Vaibhav Lakshmi Vrat Katha are given away so that the vrat may spread; charity is given according to one\'s means. With this the vrat is fulfilled.',
  },
]

export default vidhi