[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.c81.2006 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.2006 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.2006 - **Language:** English ### [v6.c81.2006](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.2006) \*Vidyāvrata\*—on 2nd tithi of a month, draw square figure with white rice grains and in its midst a figure of a lotus with eight petals on the pericarp of which draw Lakṣmī with lotus in her hand and the latter's eight śaktis (such as Sarasvatī, Rati, Maitrī, Vidyā), these to be placed on the petals; salutations to these latter in the form 'oṁ Sarasvatyai namaḥ', draw several deities (named) as lords of four quarters and four intermediate quarters; place four (Vyāsa, Kratu, Manu, Dakṣa) as gurus and Vasiṣṭha and others on the maṇḍala, worship all these with various flowers, repeat Śrīsūkta (one of the Khilasūktas beginning with 'Hiraṇyavarṇām hariṇīm'), the Puruṣasūkta (Ṛg X. 90) and hymns to Viṣṇu; donate a cow and a bull and a jar of water to the priests and also five vessels filled with fried rice, sesame and (by a woman performer) turmeric powder, gold to a house-holder and food to the hungry; the pupil should pray to the ācārya to impart learning and the ācārya should impart it in the presence of images; HV I. 386-389 (from Gar.) - [Previous: v6.c81.2005](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.2005) - [Next: v6.c81.2007](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.2007) - [Up: v6.c81](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81) ## Cites (3) - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.10.90) — Sanskrit - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Hemādri](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.hemadri) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.2006](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.2006) · Pramāṇa