Matsya Purana 206.4

206.4

yathā yena vidhānena tanme nigadataḥ śrṛṇu.
gomayenopalipte tu śūcau deśe narādhipa .. 206.4 ..

Now listen how it should be given away, king! First a cloth made of good goat wool should be spread on the floor washed with cow-dung. Over it should be spread the skin of a black deer containing its horns and hoofs. The gold mounted horns, silver mounted teeth and the tail-end decorated with pearls should be covered with sesamum. Then everything should be covered with a piece of fine sacred cloth. Gold is to be placed on the navel. Afterwards it should also be decorated with jewels according to the means of the devotee and then incense is to be burnt round this. At all its four corners vessels of bell-metal (kāṅsā) should be placed and the clay pots on the eastern side should be filled in with clarified butter, milk, curd and honey Another beautiful entire jar without any holes in it should be placed for the sprinkling of water It should be placed in a quiet corner after putting a Champaka twig on the east side of it—4 10