[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.c81.2012 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.2012 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.2012 - **Language:** English ### [v6.c81.2012](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.2012) \*Vibhūti-dvādaśī\*—on 10th of śu. in K., Vai., Mārg., Phā. or Āś., performer should undertake the niyamas (restrictions) of this vrata; fast on 11th and worship Janārdana (image); he should offer worship to the several limbs from the feet (of Viṣṇu) to the head in such forms as 'vibhūtaye namaḥ pādau vikośāyeti jānunī'; he should place in front of Viṣṇu image a golden fish in a jar of water; jāgara with stories (about Viṣṇu) and donate next morning the golden image and jar with prayer 'just as Viṣṇu is never bereft of his great manifestations, may you free me from the mire of all the sorrows of saṁsāra', he should donate every month the image of each of ten avatāras of Viṣṇu and of Dattātreya and Vyāsa, together with a blue lotus on dvādaśī; after finishing twelve dvādaśīs he should donate to the guru or ācārya a lavaṇācala, a bedstead with all appurtenances, a cow, a village (by kingly performer) or a field (the village chief) and to other brāhmaṇas cows and garments; this procedure may be followed for three years, he becomes free from sins, saves a hundred pitṛs &c; KKV 364-367, HV I. 1057-1060; both quote from Mat. 100. 1-37 (some verses are different), which are also found in Pad. V. 20. 4-42. For the gift called Lavaṇācala, vide H. of Dh. II. p. 882, Mat 84. 1-9. - [Previous: v6.c81.2011](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.2011) - [Next: v6.c81.2013](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.2013) - [Up: v6.c81](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81) ## Cites (4) - [Padmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.5.20.4) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Matsyapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya.100.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Hemādri](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.hemadri) - [Kṛtyakalpataru](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.krtyakalpataru) — Lakṣmīdhara Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.2012](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v6.c81.2012) · Pramāṇa