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both i and fifiers give entertainments to their brothers, who make prefents 



in return. 



Lainga. Mahdbharata. 



d. Cows are on this day to be fed, careffed, and attended in their paflures ; 

 and the Hindus are to walk round them with ceremony, keeping them al~ 

 ivays to the right hand. 



Bhima pardcrama. 



e. "To eat nothing but dry rice on this day of the moon for nine fuc- 

 *' ceffive years will fecure the favour of Dtjrg a' ", 



Cdlka purdna. 



f. The firft day of the Tretd Yuga. 



VaiJJinava. Brahma. 



g. Vishnu rifes on this day, and in fame years on the fourteenth, from 

 his (lumber of four months. He is waked by this incantation: « The 

 V clouds are difperfed, the full moon will appear in perfect brightnefs , 

 84 and I come, in hope of acquiring purity, to offer the freih flowers of the 

 " feafon : awake from thy long (lumber, awake, O Lord of all worlds I" 



Vardha. Matfya. 



The Lord of all worlds neither (lumbers nor deeps. 



A ftricl faft is obferved on the eleventh ; and even the Baca, a water bird, 

 abftains, it is faid, from hk Aifaal £ood.. Vidyd firdmanu 



h. Gifts to Brdhmtns are indifpenfably necefTary on this day. 



Rdmdyana, 



