History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.2298

v6.c81.2298

*Strīputrakāmāvāptivrata*—this is a māsavrata; Sun deity; the woman passing K. by ekabhakta and observing the rules of conduct such as *ahiṁsā*, who offers to the sun *naivedya* of boiled rice mixed with jaggery and fasts on 6th or 7th tithi, in both fortnights, reaches sūryaloka and when she returns to the world she secures a king or other desired person as husband; special rules about the months from Mārg; HV II. 821-824 (from Bhav.), KR 406.