History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.1922

v6.c81.1922

*Rūpanavamī*—begin on Mārg. 9th; tithivrata, Caṇḍikā deity, the performer should observe a fast or nakta or ekabhakta on 9th, make a trident of flour and a silver lotus with a golden pericarp and present them to Durgā, who destroys all sins; in P. and the following months different artificial animals are prepared and placed in different vessels and presented (such as a golden elephant with four tusks placed in a golden vessel, golden ram in a golden vessel) to Svāhā; he stays in Candraloka for numberless years and then becomes a handsome king, KKV 288-294 = HV I. 933-937 (from Bhav.). Rūpa means 'manufactured article or figure resembling an animal.' The deities mentioned are either forms of Durgā or of Mātṛs.