History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.2030
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.2030
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*Viṣṇuprāptivrata*—fast on dvādaśī, arghya to the Sun with the words 'Namo Nārāyaṇāya'; worship of Viṣṇu image with white flowers with the mantra 'O, best among gods! O support of earth! having accepted with a gracious mind these flowers may the Lord Viṣṇu be pleased with me'; he should subsist on śyāmāka (millet) or corn that ripens in sixty days from sowing with condiments, rice or barley or nīvāra (wild rice); then pāraṇā; performer reaches Viṣṇuloka; KKV 343-344, HV I. 1203-4 (from Bhav.).