If he fasts in Bhadrapada, he obtains wealth and valour, riches and cattle.
The fifth day of Bhadrapada is a fast- day holy to the sun, called shat.
On the 6th of this month, which is called Gaihat(
1). when people 6th Bhadrapada give food to those who are in prison.
Under the pumimant method of calculating the months, Bhadrapada which Al- Biruni mentions here would
be inclusive of Asvin( Asvayuja), in which the festival is celebrated.
When the moon stands in her fourth station, Rohini, they call this time Gunalahid(?),
celebrating a festival during three days and 16th Bhadrapada making merry by playing with each other,
from joy over the birth of Vasudeva.
On the 8th, when the moonlight has reached half of its develop- ment, they have a festival called Dhruvagriha(?); they wash them- 8th Bhadrapada selves and eat well growing,
gram- iruit that their children should be healthy.
In the month Bhadrapada, when the moon stands in the tenth station,
Magha, they celebrate a festival which they call Pitripaksha, Bhadrapada, new moon i. e. the half of the month of the Fathers because the moon' s entering this station falls near the time of new moon.