[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c8.2691 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.2691 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.2691 - **Language:** English ### [c8.2691](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.2691) After washing after excretions you should enter into the waters and wash again and then wash your body. While washing you should recite the following mantras “Hiraṇyavarṇaḥ, Śanno devīḥ, āpo hi ṣṭhā and idam-āpaḥ.” You should submerge yourself in the waters and recite the mantras there under the water. You should also recite Aghamarṣaṇa sūkta or the Ṛk named Drupada. Gāyatrī should be chanted specially. After the Japa you should rub dry with a cloth your head and body and then offer water to the devas and manes. Then you should worship with water reciting Puruṣasūkta. - [Previous: c8.2690](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.2690) - [Next: c8.2692](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.2692) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8) ## Cites (1) - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.10.90) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.2691](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.2691) · Pramāṇa