The University of Nalanda c12.8

c12.8

The statement immediately following the above will make our remark explicit: "In individual apartments of a monastery," continues the same author, "priests bathe an image every day so carefully that no ceremony is omitted."³ We are not told what the next rite was after placing the image in a temple. But we presume that the priest must be chanting some *stotras*, or *mantras*, etc.