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was born on a Saturday, and took his seat, for the first time, in the Council of War on a Tuesday: on the same day he was first worshipped. The Brahmin, having terminated his devotions, repeats the Sundhya, and one thousand verses of the Gayatri: he bathes the Idol; and mixing up some vermilion and ghee, he smears the image all over with it: then places before it his offering of rice, sweetmeats, boiled gram, cocoa-nut, bale-leaves, red flowers, chikor-leaves, dhoopghass (hay), betel-leaves, and areeka-nuts. A small cake of flour and treacle is placed in the bottom of a kutora, over which the Devotee pours water from an abkhora with a brass spoon. The lighted artee, and all brass vessels, as in the other Poojas. He then joins his hands, and repeats the following

The worshipper here makes the signs with his fingers of the Unga-nyás, as repeated in the Sundhya; then the Hridayadinyas: then closing his eyes, and folding his arms, he repeats the following:—