Yudhishthira praises the Sun and receives the copper vessel

Chhath tradition says Draupadi kept the Chhath fast for the Pandavas' fortunes; at Nagdi near Ranchi a spring is shown where she is said to have done so and the festival is kept at that spring. Other tellings say Kunti kept it, or that Karna, the Sun's son, did. The festival's four days are Nahay Khay, Kharna, the evening arghya to the setting Sun and the dawn arghya to the rising Sun, with thekua and fruit in bamboo baskets.

Another Chhath telling says that Sita kept Surya Shashthi after the return to Ayodhya; the Sitacharan temple on a boulder in the Ganga at Munger marks where she is believed to have performed it.

Priyavrata, son of Svayambhuva Manu, is childless; Kashyapa performs a sacrifice and gives the charu to Queen Malini, who after twelve years bears a golden but lifeless son. The king carries the child to the burning ground and resolves to die. A goddess in a crystal-white aerial car appears: Devasena, mind-born daughter of Brahma, called Shashthi as the sixth part of Prakriti, giver of children. She takes the child on her lap and revives him, and returns him when the king promises to spread her worship, on the sixth day of each bright fortnight and the sixth day after a birth.