By Jit Majumdar
Sometimes transliterated as: Ekasţaka, EkAsţaka, Ekaashţaka
- a collection of 8
- the time for consecration
- the 8th day after the full monn in the month of Māgha (January-February); the wife of Prajāpati and the mother of Indra and Soma (Śp. Br.).