History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.1826

v6.c81.1826

*Mahāphalavrata*—for a pakṣa, four months or a year; the performer has to subsist on certain things only from the first to the 15th tithi in the following order, milk, flowers, all food except salt, sesame, milk, flowers, vegetables, bilva fruit, flour, uncooked food, fast, ghee, milk boiled with rice grains and sugar, *yavas*, cow's urine and water in which kuśas are dipped On all these days a certain procedure has to be followed, on day previous to vrata three times bath, fast, japa of Vedic hymns and of Gāyatrī &c; various rewards promised and ultimately he goes to Sūrya-loka, HV II. 392-394 (from Bhav.)