Shantikamalakara 2.3.8

2.3.8

For Budha, [cooked] sixty-day rice with milk; for Guru, one should give curd-rice; and for Śukra, ghee-rice. / The food offering for Śanaiścara, however, is mixed with sesame and black gram; / for Rāhu, black gram-rice; and for Ketu, one should give variegated rice. / In the Matsyapurāṇa, however: / "And for Kuja, one should give lentils"—so it is said. / Having made the offering of food, one should unweariedly perform the homa with oblations. / Any special detail here should be learned from the Dānakamalākara composed by me. / In the Matsyapurāṇa: / "Here the fragrance of incense should be sweet, and a canopy above. / For the presiding deities, [an unguent] with the fragrance of blue lotuses; and for all the world guardians, sandalwood unguent. / One should give lotus flowers and bdellium incense, / a lamp with cow's ghee, and an offering of ghee-rice." / In the Matsyapurāṇa: / "To the northeast of that, adorned with curd and unbroken rice grains, / endowed with mango sprouts, and accompanied by a fruit and a pair of cloths,