History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.1919

v6.c81.1919

*Rukmiṇyaṣṭamī*—on Mārg kr. 8th; in the first year the performer (a woman) should prepare a house of clay with one door in which she should cast all household gear, paddy, ghee and should make toy images of Kṛṣṇa, Rukmiṇī, Balarāma and his wife, Pradyumna and his wife, Aniruddha and Uṣā, Devakī and Vasudeva; worship these images and at sunrise offer *arghya* to the moon; next morning donate that house to a maiden, in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th years performer should construct additional wings and donate them to maidens; in the 5th year a house with five doors and in 6th year a house with six doors should be donated to a maiden; in 7th year a house be built with seven doors and white-washed, containing bedstead, sandals, mirror, mortar and pestle, vessels &c. and one should worship golden images of Kṛṣṇa, Rukmiṇī and Pradyumna with fast and jāgara and next morning donate the last house and a cow to a brāhmaṇa and his wife; after this vrata a male performer would know no sorrow and a woman would know no grief for a son; HV I. 853-855 (from Skanda).