History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.1575
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.1575
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v6.c81.1575
*Niksubhārkacatustayavrata*—Niskubhā is wife of the Sun; fast on kr. 7th; tithivrata; for a year; worship of image of Sun and his wife, woman observer would go to Sūryaloka and secures a king as husband, male also goes to Sun's world; a reader of Mahābhārata should be engaged for a year and honoured at the end with gift of the golden image of Sun and Niksubhā and with ornaments (for reader's wife) and garments &c.; KKV 156-159, HV I. 676-679 (from Bhav.).