History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c37.106

v3.c37.106

In modern times it is the practice to perform in homage to the sun twelve namaskāras or any multiple of twelve and repeat the following twelve names of the sun in the dative preceded by ‘om’ and followed by ‘namaḥ’: Mitra, Ravi, Sūrya, Bhānu, Khaga, Pūṣan, Hiraṇyagarbha, Marīci, Āditya, Savitṛ, Arka and Bhāskara. There is another method of these namaskāras called Tṛcākalpanamaskāras in which after ‘om’ certain mystic syllables and their combinations in twos and fours together with certain mantras are repeated with the twelve names (vide foot-note for illustrations).¹⁷⁵³