Kāñcanapurī
Kāñcanapurī · kāñcana-purī, “the city of gold”
Grammar: feminine noun; kāñcana (gold) with purī (city).
Meaning: a city of gold; the golden image of a city made and given in the vrata of the same name.
In the scriptures: Bhagavān Śrī Kṛshṇa tells of Jaganmātā Lakshmī asking Bhagavān Vishṇu in Śvetadvīpa, and Bhagavān Vishṇu calling this the best of vratas. It is kept in any month, on Tṛtīyā, Ekādaśī, Pūrṇimā, Saṅkrānti, Amāvāsyā or Ashṭamī of either paksha, with an upavāsa. On a kalaśa full of water, in which the Kshīrasāgara is imagined, one sets a golden Kāñcanapurī of four palas, two palas or one pala, with kadalī pillars and a toraṇa before it, and places golden images of Devī Lakshmī with Bhagavān Vishṇu in the middle of the city. The image is brought into the maṇḍapa covered with cloth, with the vratī’s eyes covered too, and the vratī then has darśana of the auspicious city. Bhagavān Vishṇu says that the vratī reaches Brahmaloka, then Rudraloka, then Vishṇuloka, and that Devī Lakshmī herself kept this vrata and gained him as her husband by its puṇya.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 147
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 147