The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.101

v2.c17.101

**Offerings :—**The block is bathed with a great profusion of water, as also with milk and the intoxicating beverage of *bhāṅg*, several times every day, and wiped dry after each lustration. Offerings of flowers, sandal paste and new cloth are placed on the block, but other small offerings are put near it; and the divinity is invoked to accept them. Offerings of cooked rice, curries and sweetmeat, when brought in, in moderate quantities, are placed on the middle of the porch; but if the quantity be large, it is displayed in the Bhoga Maṇḍapa, whence the divinity is invoked to accept them.