Wednesday fast

This fast shouldbe strated from the first Wednesday of Shukla Paksho of jyeshta. The number of fasts should be 2l or 45. On that dayafter taking bath the person concerned should dress himselfin green coloured clothes and recite the Blja or TantrtkMantraof Mercury 3 x lO8 or 17 x 1O8 times. Thereafter he shouldoffer to the poor preparattons made from Jaggery or brownsugar and Mung Dal flour such as हलवा or laddoos and eatthe same himself. On the last Wednesday of the fast, Hawanwith Poorna-Ahuti should be performed. By this fast, theperson concerned gains success in the educational sphereand buslness matters. It ls also believed that by keeping afast on the Amawas day of the lunar month, the planetMercury is propitiated.