VaiKunth Chaturdashi:The fourteenth day of the first half of Kartik is said to be sacred to Vishnu, the Lord of vaikunth. It is revealed on this day in Krita Tuga Vishnu went to Benaras and worship Shiva at the Manikarnika Ghat. While offering 1,000 lotus flowers and invoking Shiva with praises, he found the thousandth lotus missing. But Vishnu, unshaken, completes his worship by replacing the missing lotus with one of his own eyes. Shiva veritably pleased with this gesture presented Vishnu the Sudarshan, the enchanted disc. Since then devotees of Vishnu offer him a thousand lotuses and 1,000 praiseworthy appellations or the Vishnu Sahsranama.