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The purposes of fasting as a religious, magical or social custom are various, It may be an act of penitence or of propitiation, a preparatory rite before some act of sacramental eating or an initiation, a mourning ceremony, one of a series of purificatory rites, a means of inducing dreams and visions, a method of adding force to magical rites 12 The Brahma Purana has numerous references regarding fasts. Thus it states that one who has eaten bad things In order to get should fast for three nights (221.134). success one may eat on alternate days or once a day or on the sixth day or the eighth day. One may observe fast for a month or maintain himself on fruits roots, air, pinyaka, curds and other objects. (241.15-19). One may live on dry leaves and fruits Again one who eats on every fourth day goes to Yamaloka in the Peacock-yoked aeroplane, one who eats once a day goes there in swan-yoked aeroplane, who eats on every third day goes there in divine chariots yoked by elephants, one who eats on the sixth day goes there on an elephant, who fasts for fifteen days goes there in lion-yoked aeroplanes and who fasts for a month goes there in bright aeroplanes (216.43-49). King Yayati went to heaven observing fasts 12 Macculloch J. A., ERE, Vol. V, P. 759.

415 (12.48). A yogin who is 'ekahari' and who does not eat for a month continuously gets strength (238.44,45).