History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.2133

v6.c81.2133

*Ṣaṣṭhīdevī*—BRV II (chap 43 3-72) says that Ṣaṣṭhī, Maṅgalacaṇḍī and Manasā are portions of Prakṛti, that Ṣaṣṭhī is the presiding goddess over children, that she is called Devasenā among Mātṛs, she is wife of Skanda, protects children and gives them long life and narrates a story about worship of that goddess on the 6th day after birth in the lying-in chamber On the worship of Sūtikā-ṣaṣṭhī, vide KT 471-475, where Bhoja in quoted on p 473