History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.2293

v6.c81.2293

*Sauratrivikrama-vrata*—This is a māsavrata; Sun deity, for three months or three years; in month of K. worship Jagannātha or the Sun and observe ekabhakta and donate the second meal to a brāhmaṇa; same procedure in Mārg. and P. and Sun to be worshipped as Vibhākara and Divākara; sins committed in youth and middle age and even grave sins are destroyed, it is called 'Trivikrama' because the three names (of the sun) relieve a man in *three months or three years*; HV II. 856 (from Bhav. U.).