History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.1094

v6.c81.1094

*Aśokāṣṭamī*—(1) Cai. śu. 8 and if there be Wednesday and Punarvasu-nakṣatra then special merit; worship of Durgā with Aśoka flowers, one should drink water mixed with eight Aśoka buds, worship of Aśoka tree with the mantra 'tvām-aśoka harābhīṣṭam madhumāsa-samudbhavam | pibāmi śokasantapto mām-aśokaṁ sadā kuru'. KV 422 (quotes mantra from Liṅga), HK 626 (from Viṣṇu), HV I 862-63 (from Liṅga) and 875-76 (from Ādityapurāṇa but no mantra); KR 126-127; RM (1379-80) has the mantra 'tvām-aśoka harābhīṣṭa' and the verse 'Aśoka-kalikāś-cāṣṭau' and BB 1734-35, both of which verses are Gar. I 133. 1-2; PC 109; SMK 94. *Vide JRAS* for 1900 pp. 545, 791 and for 1901 p 127 for some remarks. (2) KV 422, KR. 126, KT 463 and other digests state that all tīrthas and rivers come to the Brahmaputrā on Cai śu 8 and a bath in it on that day yields the same rewards as Vājapeya, when it falls on Wednesday and on Punarvasu.