History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.285.5

v6.c81.285.5

It has to be further remembered that the positive prescription about celebrating a vrata or the like on the fixed tithi is governed by the yugmavākya, but the rules forbidding the partaking of oil, meat or the like on the fixed tithi apply for the whole of that day¹⁹⁸ and that tithi, whether it is 65 ghaṭikās and extends over three days or is only 55 ghaṭikās and extends over two days only. For explaining the words 'ekādaśyām nirāhāraḥ' from Varāha-purāṇa (39. 32) the Ekādaśītattva (pp. 3–4) states that one is to fast not merely for the time that the Ekādaśī lasts on a week-day but for the whole of the week day on which Ekādaśī falls and it applies the reasoning contained in Jai VI. 2 19–20 (called *Kalañjādhikaraṇa*). If the vrata is such that some items in it are to be done by day and some at night, then that vrata must be observed on that tithi which exists by day as well as at night and in such a case the yugmavākya has no application Vide p 72 and note 184 above. In certain cases where the vrata has several items extending over the whole day or a large part of it, the tithi at the time of sunrise even if it be only for a ghaṭikā is declared by some texts to be *sakalā* (*pūrṇā*) for purposes of both gifts and vratas.¹⁹⁹