Matsyapurana 75.3

75.3

tataḥ prabhāta utthāya kṛtasnānajapaḥ śuciḥ
kṛtvā tu kāñcanaṃ padmam arkāyeti ca pūjayet
karavīreṇa raktena raktavastrayugena ca //

On the sixth day of the bright fortnight, in the month of Mâgha, the devotee, after brushing his teeth in the morning and rubbing the body with black sesamum, and bathing, should fast the whole day; and at night, again brushing his teeth, he should take krisarâ pudding (consisting of rice, sesamum and a pulse cooked in milk and eaten with ghee and without salt). Then go to bed as a Brahmachârî.—2. On the following morning, after bathing and finising his daily prayer and so being pure, he should have a lotus made of gold, and worship it by pronouncing ‘Arkâya namaḥ.’—3.

The lotus should be worshipped with red kanera flowers and a piece of red cloth. The devotee should pray to the Sun in these words:—‘O Âditya! as this world becomes free from all grief at Thy rising, in the same way, let me also be free from sorrow, in all my lives, and may I have always firm faith in Thee.’—4.