Doraka
Doraka, “the cord”
Grammar: masculine noun.
Meaning: a cord; in the Ananta Vrata, the cord with fourteen knots.
In the scriptures: In the Ananta Vrata, kept on the caturdaśī, a doraka with fourteen knots is placed before Bhagavān Ananta and anointed with kuṅkuma and the like. It is offered to him, and then a man ties it on the right hand and a woman on the left. After tying it, one eats the naivedya. Śrī Kṛshṇa tells Yudhishṭhira that Śīlā kept the vrata and tied the doraka, and that one day her husband Kauṇḍinya Muni, in anger, broke it on her hand (Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 94). The mantra for tying it is:
अनन्तसंसारमहासमुद्रे भग्नान् समभ्युद्धर वासुदेव ।
अनन्तरूपे विनियोजितात्मा ह्यनन्तरूपाय नमो नमस्ते।anantasaṃsāramahāsamudre bhagnān samabhyuddhara vāsudeva |
anantarūpe viniyojitātmā hyanantarūpāya namo namaste |
“O Vāsudeva, I am sinking in the great ocean of endless saṃsāra. Lift me out. Join me also to your Ananta form. O you of endless form, my salutations to you again and again.”
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 94
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 94