History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c37.80.3

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Then he satiates (the image of) the deity with water sprinkled round the deity keeping the right hand towards it and taking the twelve names (Keśava and others) with the vyāhṛtis; he offers a garment with the syllable ‘om’, yajñopavīta with the sacred Gāyatrī, ācamanīya with Ṛg. I. 22. 17, sandalwood paste with the verse ‘gandhadvārām’ (Tai. Ār. X. 1), whole grains of rice (akṣata) with the verse ‘Irāvatī’ (Ṛg. VII. 99. 3), flowers with Ṛg. I. 22. 20 (tad Viṣṇoḥ), incense (dhūpa) with the Gāyatrī, a lamp with the mantra ‘uddīpyasva’ (Tai. Ār. X. 1) and cooked food is offered with the formula ‘devasya tvā’; then he should offer flowers to the image repeating the twelve names of Viṣṇu, associating with each name the verses from ‘trīṇi padā’ to ‘sumṛḍīkā bhavantu naḥ’ (Tai. Br. II. 4. 6). Then they laud him with verses derived from the Ṛgveda, Yajurveda, Sāmaveda or Atharvaveda in praise of Viṣṇu; then he should bid good bye to the Puruṣa (i. e. Viṣṇu) by uttering¹⁷³⁴ the three vyāhṛtis (in such formula as ‘om bhūḥ puruṣamudvās-ayāmi) and adding ‘may the Lord, the Great Person, go away for (my) well-being, for conquest and for being seen again.’ In case the image is immovably fixed on a pedestal &c. the invocation to come and the bidding of good-bye are omitted. The Baud. gṛhya-śeṣasūtra (II. 17) contains the procedure of the worship of Mahādeva (Śiva).