History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.1413

v6.c81.1413

*Trayodaśī-vrata*—on 13th of any month; performer to place a lump of cow's butter as big as a kapittha fruit in a vessel of gold, silver, copper or clay and make with flowers or aksatas and prepare a lotus thereon with heaps of flowers and invoke Viṣṇu and Lakṣmī thereon and divide the lump of butter in two parts and pronounce separate mantras over the two parts and give the parts to wife, first the portion over which Viṣṇu was invoked and then the other; result birth of many sons; HV II. 19-21 (from Var.), on Cai śu. 13 worship of image of Kāmadeva with Rati drawn on a jar, or white cloth and decked with Aśoka flowers and worship with damanaka; KV 469 (quoting Devīpurāṇa)