Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.392

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If he dreams good dreams everything is quite right; if bad dreams are dreamt, the next morning narasimha-homa should be performed, the stone given offerings with chanting of astramantra. The edge of the instruments used for sculpting the idol should be firstly smeared with ghee, honey etc. The architect should be one who has gained mastery over the senses. He should first cut the stone into a square, and then it should be placed on a chariot, covered with cloth and taken to his house. Then after performing a pūjā the work on the idol should be started. (Agni Purāṇa, Chapter 43).