History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.1867

v6.c81.1867

*Mṛgaśīrṣavrata*—on Śrāvaṇa kr. 1 Śiva pierced the three mouths of the *yajña* that had assumed the form of a deer by an arrow with three prongs; the performer should prepare a clay Mṛgaśīrṣa in the form of the deer and should worship it with different kinds of *naivedya* of vegetables and of flour mixed with linseed HV I 358-59, SmK 146