History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.2277

History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.2277

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v6.c81.2277

*Somavatī-amāvāsyā*—Amāvāsyā on Monday is very holy; vide KV 492 (from Bhav.); HK 643, VKK 9; on this day persons (specially women in the Deccan) go to a aśvattha tree, worship Viṣṇu and circumambulate the tree 108 times; Vratārka folios 350b-356, DS. 23, the former remarking that this is not mentioned in the great religious digests (nibandhas) but is based upon usage

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Bhaviṣyapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
Hemādri
Kṛtyakalpataru — Lakṣmīdhara Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
Dharmasindhu — Kāśīnātha Upādhyāya 1790, Sanskrit