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altar of rice with an adhaka (a measurement of rice
equalling to 1/4 drona) (SED p.134) of white rice on which
are drawn eight lines, four running from east to west and
the other four, from north to south, the former intersecting
the latter. Thus is made a figure of nine squares. (See
diagram). On each of the squares is drawn the design of
an eight-petalled-lotus on which is kept new jars of
gold, silver, copper or earth, which are white-washed
with lime, filled with sacred water, topped with five kinds
of leaves (of amra, jambu, kapittha, bija-puraka and bilva)
and are surrounded with white threads.
Further, these jars
contain gavya (probably, cow-dung) and ratna (gem).
Now on these are spread pieces of silk cloth and gold idols
of planets alongwith their respective adhidevat膩s,
pratyadhidevatas and sadgunya-devatas (subsidiary, beneficiary
and corollary deities respectively) which are made according
21 to their individual characteristic description, are seated
on those.
Before such installation, the idols should be duly
consecrated by bathing these with Pa帽cagavya (five sacred
21.
For a detailed description of the grahas with
their adhidevatas, pratyadhidevatas and
sadgunyadevat膩s, see BGS 1.17, Vaikhanasa-
smartasutra, 4.13-14, Matsyapurana 93.1-105,
Visnudharmottara, 1.93.105, YS 1.294-308 and prayoga
texts like RVBKS, pp.136-152 etc.