About Kartika Mahatmya -: The activities to be performed during Kartika Mahatmya are exhaustively dealt with in Puranas such as Skanda and Padma. In this month a Vaishnava should regularly worship Shri Damodara and undertake vows such as bathing before sunrise, giving alms, and so on. Worship and other activities for specific occasions will be discussed later in this vilasa.great brahmana, if the opportunity to perform vratas during Kartika is neglected all pious merits amassed in the past are reduced to ashes, the study of Vedas and Puranas becomes futile, charity, japa, and penances become fruitless, and reaching svarga, becomes impossible, despite the performance of countless sacrifices and hundreds.