Skip to content
navigationtools

Arthashastra

Progress:60.4%

x

त्रि रात्र उपोषितः कृष्ण चतुर् दश्यां पुष्य योगिन्यां श्व पाकी हस्ताद् विलख अवलेखनं क्रीणीयात् ॥

Having fasted for three nights, one should, on the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month, the day being assigned to the star of Pushya, purchase from a low-caste woman (svapáki) vilikhávalekhana (finger nails?).

english translation