The Compendium of Caraka 3.8.9

3.8.9

*evaṃvidhamadhyayanārthinamupasthitamārirādhayiṣumācāryo 'anubhāṣeta---udagayane śuklapakṣe praśaste 'ahani tiṣyahastaśravaṇāśvayujāmanyatamena nakṣatreṇa yogamupagate bhagavati śaśini kalyāṇe kalyāṇe ca karaṇe maitre muhūrte muṇḍaḥ kṛtopavāsaḥ snātaḥ kāṣāyavastrasaṃvītaḥ sagandhahastaḥ samidho 'agnimājyamupalepanamudakumbhān mālyadāmadīpahiraṇyahemarajatamaṇimuktāvidrumakṣaumaparidhīn kuśalājasarṣapākṣatāṃśca śuklāni sumanāṃsi grathitāgrathitāni medhyān bhakṣyān gandhāṃśca ghṛṣṭānādāyopatiṣṭhasveti//

To such an applicant for study, who has approached him wishing to please him, the teacher should say: 'During the northern course of the sun, in the bright fortnight, on an auspicious day, when the revered moon is in conjunction with any of the asterisms Tiṣya, Hasta, Śravaṇa, or Aśvayuj, in an auspicious karaṇa and a Maitra muhūrta, having your head shaved, having fasted, having bathed, clad in an ochre-colored garment, with fragrant hands, you should present yourself taking fire-sticks, fire, ghee, plastering material, water jars, flower garlands, lamps, gold, silver, gems, pearls, coral, linen enclosures, kuśa grass, puffed grain, mustard seeds, unbroken grains, white flowers—both strung and unstrung—pure edible items, and ground fragrances.'