Shantikamalakara 2.3.7
English (machine translation) 2.3.7
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2.3.7
One should install the presiding deities between the planets and the deities. / In the Matsyapurāṇa: / One should invoke Vināyaka, Durgā, Wind, and Space with the vyāhṛtis, and likewise the two Aśvins. / In the Madanaratna from the Skandapurāṇa: / Having installed Gaṇeśa, revered by all gods, to the north of Saturn and the Sun, and to the south of Jupiter and Ketu... / In the same text, from the Saṃgraha: / To the north of Rāhu, Saturn, and the Sun in order, [one should place] Gaṇeśa, Durgā, and Vāyu; and to the south of Rāhu and Ketu, the wise man should establish these five: Space and the two Aśvins. / Vasiṣṭha: / Vināyaka with 'Gaṇānāṃ tvā,' Durgā with 'Jātavedase,' Vāyu with 'Vāyo yāhi,' and the Sky with 'Ghṛtaṃ ghṛtapāve,' and having worshipped both of the Aśvins with 'Yāvāṃ diśaḥ'... / Gobhilīya: / Thirty-two deities are to be established, as well as the world-protectors and the elephants of the quarters. / Yājñavalkya: / Clothes and flowers are to be given according to [the planet's] color, and perfumes, bali offerings, incense, and bdellium. Boiled rice with jaggery, milk porridge, sacrificial cooked rice, rice with milk, curd-rice, sacrificial flour, meat, and spiced rice: the wise man should give these foods to Brahmins in the sequence of the planets, according to ability or as available, having consecrated them according to the rules. 'Havis' is rice boiled with ghee; 'cūrṇa' is rice mixed with sesame powder. / In the Skandapurāṇa: / One should indeed give red sandalwood to the Sun and Mars; to Venus, one should give white sandalwood; sandalwood combined with saffron to Jupiter and Mercury; one should give agallochum and sandalwood to Rāhu, Ketu, and Saturn. Flowers of the colors of the planets; one should perform the offering of incense with the Gāyatrī: olibanum incense for the Sun, ghee and unbroken rice for the Moon; and sal tree resin is prescribed for Mars, and agallochum for Mercury; one should give storax to Jupiter; for the Moon, milk porridge with ghee; for Mars, pure sacrificial food...
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- Śāntikamalākara — Kamalākarabhaṭṭa 1587, Sanskrit