Essay name: Samrajya Lakshmi Pithika (Study)
Author:
Artatrana Sarangi
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages
This is a study in English of the Samrajya Lakshmi Pithika (written by Lolla Lakshmidhara) representing an encyclopedic manual for emperors. The Samrajyalaksmipithika encompasses about 3870 verses in addressing topics such as public festivals, governance, warfare (military strategy), and rituals associated with the Tantric worship for the deity Samrajya-Lakshmi.
Chapter 3 - General Ritual mentioned in Samrajya-lakshmi-pithika
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lighting of the fire) in all the four pits situated in the
east etc. Thereafter, he performs the Mukhantakarma
(all the preliminary rites that come under Agnimukha)
and offers oblations of the faggots of brahma-vrksa
(palasa (Butea Frondosa) or udumbara (Ficus Glomerata), +
Pavasam (rice cooked in milk and sugar) and clarified
butter separately for 108 times while reciting the
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formula 'Vimoru kam ... (RV 1.154.1). Similarly, now
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are instructed by him eight other priests to perform
homa of 108 libations in honour of the individual dikpalas.
Such libations constitute of offerings of palasa
faggots, edibles and clarified butter. For each article
of offering in honour of a particular god, libations
are given for 108 times,. When this process is gone
through, the preceptor along with the priests, is described
28 to perform the prava艣citahutis (penitentiary libations)
and the homa is concluded (9-15).
27.
For details, see SRM Vol. 1.P.137 ff.
28.
BGS. 4.5 as quoted by BBKS (S.K.) p.52 makes it
obligatory that prascitahutis are to be offered
just before the main homa or at the end of it
or before the Svi峁akrd takes place in a saerifice.
ya
'Atha prascittahutih pradhanadau, pradhanante,
svistak峁泃a岣� purva va juhuvat'
