History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.2054

v6.c81.2054

For Vyatīpātavratas, vide HV II. 708-717, Vratārka folios 391a-395a On Vyatīpāta day one should bathe with pañcagavya in a great river; a golden figure of Vyatīpāta with 18 arms should be placed on a golden lotus and should be worshipped with *gandha* &c; fast on that day; one year, on the 13th Vyatīpāta *udyāpana*; hundred *āhutis* of ghee, milk and sesame with fuel sticks of trees that exude milky juice with the words 'Vyatīpātāya svāhā'. Vyatīpāta is said to be the son of the Sun and Moon Vide I. A. vol. 23 p. 117