Piṅgala Muni of Mathurā
Piṅgala, “the tawny one”
Piṅgala Muni is a tapasvin who came to Mathurā and stayed there. The Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa tells of him as the teacher of Devī Jāmbavatī, who gave her the rite that makes the body radiant.
His teaching to Devī Jāmbavatī
Yudhishṭhira asks Śrī Kṛshṇa which vrata, tapas, niyama or dāna gives a most radiant body in this world. Śrī Kṛshṇa answers with what happened long before. Piṅgala, a tapasvin, had come to Mathurā, and Devī Jāmbavatī put this same question to him.
Piṅgala Muni replied that on the puṇya days a woman or man devoted to vrata should bathe and, in the middle of their own courtyard, give a pot of ghee and a burning lamp as dāna to Bhūmideva. This gives a shining and vigorous body.
The puṇya days he names are these:
- saṅkrānti
- sūrya-grahaṇa
- candra-grahaṇa
- vaidhṛti
- vyatipāta yoga
- uttarāyaṇa
- dakshiṇāyana
- vishuva
- ekādaśī
- the caturdaśī of the śukla paksha
- tithi-kshaya
- saptamī
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 130
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 130