History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.570

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¹⁶⁴⁰ For the festival called Indramaha, vide H. of Dh. vol. II. pp. 825-826. The spring festival was one in which on the first day of the dark half of Phālguna people went about drenching each other in ordinary or coloured water discharged from syringes and the like: 'फाल्गुनकृष्णप्रतिपदि क्रियमाणः परस्परजलसेकः वसन्तोत्सवः' मयूखमालिका on शास्त्रदीपिका on जै. I. 3. 7. Modern practice combines this with the lighting of bonfires on the Full moon of Phālguna. The mythical origin of होलिका of modern days on the Full moon day of Phālguna is described in भविष्यपुराण (उत्तरपर्व chap. 132).