[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v6.c81.1981 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.1981 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.1981 - **Language:** English ### [v6.c81.1981](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.1981) \*Vasuvrata\*—(1) worship of the eight Vasus that are really forms of Vāsudeva on the 8th tithi with fast from Cai. śu. drawn in a circle or as images; at end donate a cow; secures wealth and crops and Vasuloka The eight Vasus are Dhara, Dhruva, Soma, Āpaḥ, Anila, Anala, Pratyūṣa and Prabhāsa Vide Anuśāsana 150 16-17, Mat 5. 21, Brahmāṇḍa III. 3 21 for these. HV I. 848-49 (from Vi. Dh); (2) gift of a cow together with plenty of gold when it is about to be delivered and subsisting on milk alone that day; performer reaches the highest goal and is not born again; HV II. 885 (from Pad.) For the high importance of the gift of a cow in that condition (and called 'ubhayatomukhī') vide H. of Dh. vol. II. p. 879 - [Previous: v6.c81.1980](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.1980) - [Next: v6.c81.1982](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.1982) - [Up: v6.c81](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81) ## Cites (5) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.13.150.16) — Sanskrit - [Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.brahmanda.2.3.21) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Matsyapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya.5.21) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.vaisnava.visnudharmottara) — Sanskrit - [Hemādri](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.hemadri) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.1981](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.1981) · Pramāṇa