History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.2112

v6.c81.2112

*Śaivanakṣatravrata*—begin when Hasta-nakṣatra occurs in Phā. śu.; subsist by nakta method but avoid oil and salt; worship Śiva associating each of his limbs from feet to head separately with the nakṣatras from Hasta in the form ‘Śivāyeti ca Hastena pādau sampūjayed-vibhoḥ’; donate on all nakta days a *prastha* of rice grains with a vessel of ghee; on pāraṇā donate images of Śiva and Umā, a bedstead fully furnished, a cow; nakṣatravrata; Śiva deity; HV II. 703-706 (from Vi. Dh).