History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.1851

v6.c81.1851

*Māgha-krtya*—KR 487-514, VKK 490-514, NS 213-221, SmK 439-513, GK 37-41 There are several important vratas in Māgha such as Tilacaturthī, Rathasaptamī, Bhīṣmāṣṭamī which would be separately mentioned in this list. A few small matters may be briefly disposed off here. M. śu 4 is called Umācaturthī because Gaurī is to be worshipped by men and specially by women with Kunda and other flowers, with offerings of jaggery, salt, *yāvaka* and one should honour women who are not widows, brāhmaṇas and cows (KKN 437-38, KR 503); on M kṛ 12th Yama produced sesame and Daśaratha brought them to the earth and sowed them and Viṣṇu was made lord of sesame by the gods, hence one should fast on that day and worship Hari with sesame, offer homa with sesame, donate them and eat them (V. Dh. 90 19, KKN 435-6, KR 495-96); on M. amāvāsyā, if it is present on Monday morning, men and particularly women in Tamil country circumbulate the *aśvattha* tree and make gifts