vruth for the days of the week-friday

FRIDAY - shukravar.
this graha is very important for good luck. placed favorably in the chart this planet will bring wealth, good speaker(suvaktha) and intellegence. the blessing of shukra is needed in marriage and other good ceremonies. this day's vruth is observed to please goddess laxmi. now a days people do santoshi maa pooja also.
this vruth is started on shukla paksh first friday(after amavasya) for a minimum of 21 days. white colour is used on this day. like white flower, rice or kheer, sugar is offered to god. white cloth or silver is given as dhan. after the evening lamp is lit , food is taken.
the story recited on this days story goes like this.
there was a raja who ruled wisely and he was very kind hearted and god fearing also. but his wife was very proud of her wealth. she considered beggar and sadhu's same. she did not respect the learned sadhu's when they come to her for alms. her husband tried to make her understand but she was not prepared to listen.
one day when she was in the garden, shukra dev came like a sadhu to her palace and asked for alms. she did not listen. He requested for a hand full of wheat flour again, when she refused, the sadhu said may be in future when she asks for alms she may not get. sadhu went empty handed.she narrated the incidence of sadhu to her husband. he was worried for her and his subjects. so raja made a wooden box asked rani to lay down in it and closed and let it float in the river. after floating for some time it stopped near a tree.
a merchant was building a huge palace. so labourers were working there. when they saw the box. they thought money will be inside this, so they pulled it out of the water and opened . rani came out of it. immediately she asked for food. workers told her take job of a labourer. evening wages will be distributed.then she can buy things , cook and eat.. she started working there as a labourer. she was not use to this hard work. she was finding it very difficult. of and on she remembered that sadhu's words. one day the merchant came to see the palace. his wife asked rani to work in her house. there also she could not do house hold work. two and half month went by.
one day when she was doing work sadhu came and asked for hand full of wheat flour. she immediately went and gave it to him .told merchant's wife to cut it from her salary.sadhu blessed her and went.
Raja realised his mistake of floating rani. he came in search of her on the river shore. He saw the palace and stopped his boat. he went there and merchant welcomed him and gave him food .he was asked to spent the night there. rani was asked to go to his room as dasi. she cried there. raja asked the reason . he recognised her voice. they both recognised each other. rani told him the bad days she under went.
next day raja told merchant his story and took her back home. merchants wife asked for pardon and she helped rani in dressing up nicely and both raja and rani went back home. since then her attitude changed. she was very good to all. started respecting the sadhu's, did shukravar vruth . they both lived happily afterwards.