History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.1864

v6.c81.1864

*Muktidvāra-saptamī*—When 7th tithi has Hasta nakṣatra on it or Puṣya nakṣatra, this vrata should be undertaken; he should brush his teeth with a twig of Arka plant with ‘salutation to Arka’; offer homa; draw in his courtyard swept with cowdung with red sandalwood paste a lotus with 16 petals on each of which he should assign several deities from the eastern one onwards, then engage in the upacāras from āvāhana onwards; he should fast on that day, he should partake only one of the six rasas (sweet, salt, sour, pungent, astringent, and bitter) for two months in rotation for one year; in the 13th month there is to be pāraṇa and he should donate a *kapilā* cow; this leads on to *mokṣa*, HV II. 780-86.