[5] Adhika refers to the Sanskrit word for additional or extra,[6] while masa means month.
It is general belief that one can wash away all his sins by taking a bath in the pond at Machhenarayan temple.
People engage in practices such mala japas, pradakshinas, pilgrimages, scriptural reading, and parayanas.
It is said that the persons performing good deeds (satkarma) in this month conquer their senses (indriyas) and they totally come out of punar janam (the cycle of rebirth).
This month is often regarded to be inauspicious (mala), where the performance of rites such as weddings do not take place.
[8] In the Beed district of Maharashtra, there is a small village called Purushottampuri, where there is a temple of Purushottam, a regional form of Krishna.
Every adhika-masa, there is a big fair and thousands of people come from various places to invoke the blessings of the deity.