History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c99.1935

v7.c99.1935

Ṛṣipañcamī-vrata: (*vide* 'Seven sages') : 149-151, meant for all, but now practised mostly by women 149, number seven important in, 151; object was to remove all sins and troubles of three kinds and ridding women of contacts during monthly illness 950; performed on 5th of Bhādrapada bright half 149-151 (mixed with 4th and not with 6th tithi); performer not to eat anything in this vrata produced on land ploughed by oxen or watered by the labour of oxen 150; procedure of 149-150; Saṅkalpa in 150n; seven sages and Arundhatī worshipped in, 150-51, worship of sages is performed with Ṛgveda mantras 150-51.