The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.102.4

v2.c17.102.4

(18) An hour after comes on the private supper called *Nijaghara khei*, when sweetmeats, stale rice and curds are brought into the sanctum. These articles are given away to the servants of the temple, while all the articles offered at the other *bhogas* are sold to the credit of the temple fund. The servants also sell what they get as their due. (19) After supper a ceremony is gone through called *Puṣpāñjali sevā* when five masks made of an alloy of the 8 principal metals, and a *domaru*, a musical instrument shaped like an hour-glass, are placed on a stool in the centre of the Nāt Mandir, plantains and sweetmeats offered to them, and then they are taken into the sanctum, and placed on the rim surrounding the sacred stone. (21) After this an *ārati* is performed, and then arrangements are made for (22) the *Śayana* or sleep of the divinity. For this purpose a bedstead is brought into the sanctum, and betel, drinking water, flowers and spices are placed near it, and, after announcing in respectful terms that Pārvatī awaits in the chamber her lord's pleasure, the door is closed for the night.