History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c43.135

v3.c43.135

*Mahābhūtaghaṭa* :—( Matsya 289 ). A golden jar is to be set with precious stones with a diagonal of from 10½ aṅgulas to 100 aṅgulas. It is to be filled with milk and clarified butter and on it figures of Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva are to be drawn as in the case of Kalpavṛkṣa, and the figures of the earth raised by the great boar, of Varuṇa on his conveyance of Makara, of Agni on a ram, of Vāyu (on a deer), of Gaṇeśa on a rat should be kept in the jar together with the figures of Ṛgveda having a rosary, Yajurveda holding a lotus, Sāmaveda holding a lute, Atharvaveda holding *sruc* and *sruva* ladles and Purāṇas (the fifth veda) holding a rosary and water jar. The golden jar then should be donated.