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Different kinds of offerings (*bali*) are described for the various deities enumerated in the preceding chapter, who are supposed to preside over the different partitions of the *paramaśāyika* or *maṇḍūka* (site, plan). These offerings consist of milk in its various forms, butter, rice and sesame, parched grain (*lāja*), honey and sweetmeat (*modaka*, offered to Sugrīva), incense and lamps, flowers and fruits. Blood is offered to Asura, dried meat to Mṛiga, dried fish to Roga (disease)- and sea-fish to Bhṛiṅgarāja. The four demonesses, namely, Rākshasīs Pūtanā, Vidārī, and Charagī, also receive their share, the first-mentioned evil spirit in the shape of meat of goats mixed with blood.