History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c89.202

v7.c89.202

In the Bṛhadyogayātrā¹²⁵⁴ Varāha prescribes that the king wearing silken garments, pearls and jewels and accompanied by astrologers and *purohita* should enter the temple of his favourite deity, should place the images of the *dikpālas* therein, worship them with mantras, place four jars full of water in the four directions, should thrice repeat the mantras beginning with ‘Yajjāgrato dūram’ (Vāj. S. 34. 1), should eat only once that day, sleep on his right side and pray to Rudra (as noted in *n* 1254) and examine the dream, auspicious or inauspicious, seen towards the close of night.