History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.2031

v6.c81.2031

*Viṣṇulakṣavartivrata*—cleanse cotton of dust and pieces of grass &c. on an auspicious tithi and *lagna* and spin threads therefrom four finger-breadths in length and five such threads would make a wick; one hundred thousand of such wicks immersed in ghee placed in a vessel of silver or bell-metal should be kindled before Viṣṇu image; the proper time for kindling is either K., M., or Vai, the last being the best; every day a thousand or two thousand lighted wicks should be waved before Viṣṇu; finish the vrata on pūrṇimā of one of the above three months; then *udyāpana*; nowadays this is done in the Deccan by women only; VKD 383-398.