འཕགས་པ་གནས་འཇག་པའ་མད་ཞས་བྱ་བ notes.8
The Sūtra of Vasiṣṭha notes.8
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notes.8
8. The “month-long fast” (dgung zlar smyung ba) might refer to the ancient brahmanical cāndrāyaṇavrata, or simply the cāndrāyaṇa, a month-long observance in which one begins by eating fourteen mouthfuls of food and decreases food intake by one mouthful every day until the new moon day, during which one does not eat anything at all. Then, during the moon’s waxing phase, one increases food intake by one mouthful a day until the full moon. See the Baudhāyana Dharmasūtra 3.8 as well as Manusmṛti 11.217–18 and the accompanying note provided by Olivelle 2009, p. 290.