History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.477

v6.c81.477

In the Deccan on Śrāvana bright half 5th figures of snakes are drawn with red sandalwood paste on wooden boards, or clay images of snakes coloured yellow or black are purchased and worshipped and given milk and snake charmers go about with snakes of all sorts, to which people offer milk and some money is paid to the snake charmers If pañcamī is mixed with the 4th and 6th tithis, that mixed with the 6th is to be preferred. The Vratakālaviveka³²⁴ speaks of Manasāvrata on Jyeṣṭha-śukla 10th with Hasta-nakṣatra or without it and remarks that when this vrata is performed Manasā goddess protects a man from the danger of poisonous snakes