Matsya Purana 274.63
Matsyapurāṇa 274.63
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274.63
sākṣibhūtā jagaddhātrī nirmitā viśvayoninā.
ekataḥ sarvasatyāni tathānṛtaśatāni ca .. 274.60
Afterwards the devotee should get himself bathed by the Brâhmaṇas and the Brâhmaṇas should recite the Vedic hymns and then he is to take a handful of flowers after circumambulation and wear a garland of white flowers and cloth He should then invoke the scale and say "you are the strength of all the Devas and rest on truth I salute you, O Jagad dhatri! you have been designed by the Lord Brahmâ as the witness You hold yourself between the Truth and the Untruth You are the life between the virtuous and the vicious You weigh all Weigh me then, and carry me across the ocean of the world I salute you Only in you is the Lord of the twenty five elements inherent I therefore salute you I salute you O, Govinda! in the form of this scale O Hari! be gracious enough to see me taken across this ocean of the world"—58 61
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- The Matsya Puranam — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English