History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.1709

v6.c81.1709

*Bṛhatrīrātravrata*—on Jy. pūrnīmā with Jyeṣṭhā-nakṣatra one should bathe with water mixed with mustard seeds, then sprinkle water on bilva tree and worship it with *gandha* &c.; for one year one should subsist by ekabhakta way; at year's end one should approach bilva tree with bamboo vessel full of sand or full of barley, rice, sesame &c and worship images of Umā and Maheśvara with flowers &c., address bilva tree with a mantra praying for absence of widowhood and for wealth, health, sons &c; homa with a thousand bilva leaves, make a bilva tree of silver with golden fruits, *jāgara* for three days from 13th to pūrnīmā with fast; bath next morning and honouring the ācārya with garments, ornaments &c and feeding 16, 8 or 4 householders with their wives; by this vrata Umā, Lakṣmī, Śacī, Sāvitrī and Sītā respectively secured as husbands Śiva, Kṛṣṇa, Indra, Brahmā and Rāma; HV II. 308-312 (from Skanda), SmK 123-124 (simply copies HV).