History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c37.80.2

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14 describes¹⁷³³ the daily worship of Mahāpuruṣa (i. e. Viṣṇu). “A man after bathing should cowdung a pure and even spot and draw the image of Viṣṇu, should offer whole grains of rice and flowers to it in worship and then should invoke Viṣṇu to come by offering water with flowers accompanied by the three vyāhṛtis repeated separately and together: then he should utter the words ‘this *kūrca* (bundle) of darbhas is made for the divine lord, its blades are twisted by threes, it is green and gold, accept this’. Then he should cleanse a vessel with water to the accompaniment of the Gāyatrī, should pass kuśa grass across the water poured therein, should then utter the Gāyatrī mantra over it and should then turn it towards the sun with the syllable ‘om’ till he desires (or till he is tired); from that water he offers water for washing the feet (pādya) with Ṛg. I. 22. 18 (trīṇi padā &c); then after having put aside the stale flowers to the accompaniment of the *vyāhṛtis*, he should offer *arghya* with the verse Ṛg. I. 22. 17 (idaṁ Viṣṇur) and should offer *ācamanīya* with the verse ‘divo vā Viṣṇo’ (Tai. S. I. 2. 13. 2); then he bathes the deity with the three verses Ṛg. X. 9. 1-3 (āpo hi ṣṭhā &c), with the four verses ‘hiraṇya-varṇāḥ’ (Tai. S. V. 6. 1. 1-2), with the *anuvāka* beginning with ‘pavamānaḥ suvarjanaḥ’ (Tai. Br. I. 4. 8) and with the mantra ‘brahma jajñānam’ (Tai. S. IV. 2. 8. 2), with the Vāmadevī ṛk (Ṛg. IV. 26. 1), with the ‘yajuḥ-pavitra’ (i. e. Tai. S. I. 2. 1 1).