History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.1483

v6.c81.1483

*Dolotsava*—This was celebrated on different dates for different deities. Vide Pad. (IV. 80. 45-50) which says that in Kaliyuga Dolotsava on Phā 14th at the 8th prahara or at the conjunction of pūrṇimā and 1st is prescribed for three or five days and on seeing once Kṛṣṇa facing the south in a swing people become free from the load of sins; Pad. VI. 85 contains eulogy and procedure of the Dolotsava of Viṣṇu. On Cai. śu. 3 was Dolotsava of Gaurī (PC 85, VR 84) and of Rāma (SM 35); Dolotsava of Kṛṣṇa on Cai śu 11 (Pad. VI. 85) and the mantra repeated as Gāyatrī was 'Om dolārūḍhāya vidmahe Mādhavāya ca dhīmahi। tan-no devaḥ pracodayāt॥ *ibid.* verse 5). At Mathurā-Vṛndāvana, Ayodhyā, Dvārakā, Dākor and a few other places the Dolotsava of Kṛṣṇa is still celebrated