History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.1652

v6.c81.1652

*Puṣyavrata*—It is a nakṣatravrata; in the northern passage of the Sun in a bright fortnight a person desiring prosperity should fast at least one night and should cook a *sthālīpāka* (dish of barley or rice cooked in milk) and worship Kubera (the god of riches) and should give a dinner to a brāhmaṇa from the remnants of the boiled food mixed with clarified butter and should induce the brāhmaṇa to pronounce a benediction 'May there be prosperity'; this should be repeated every day till the next coming of the puṣya-nakṣatra; he should feed two, three and four brāhmaṇas on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th coming of Puṣya; this increase (in the number of brāhmaṇas to be fed in each month) should be carried on for a year; the performer should fast on the first Puṣya and not on every recurring Puṣya; the result is that the performer is endowed with great prosperity. Āp. Dh S. II. 8. 20. 3-9 and sūtras 10-22 lay down certain restrictive rules of conduct. This is q. and explained by KKV 399-400, HV II. 628.