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Resolve to worship Harior Hara!
Now, firmly seated to his seat, he undertakes a
resolve (samkalpa) to worship his tutelary deity and Hari
or Hara with a view to get his desires fulfilled, to gain
victory etc. (16-18).
Details:
He, for sometime, meditates on the concerned god
at heart and brings him out (apasarana) as it were, through
his right nostril in a mystical way and keeps (him) on
a flower which is then placed on the golden or silver idol
11 of the said god, who is now invoked by showing a variety
of mudras like avahani, sthapani, sannidh膩pan I, sannirodhakari,
12 sammukhi etc. (19-20).
11.
Here the reference, though brief, appears to centre
round the tantric mode of consecrating an image. This
act of consecration, before the actual worship, involves
on the part of the worshipper, bringing his consciousness
out of his inner self alongwith exhalation of air through
left or right nostril and then injecting it into the idol
to be worshipped, by placing it on a flower. Such an act,
in tantric parlour is known as Pranasthapana. This act is
variously described in tantric texts like ST,4.88-89,
PKS, 4.1 etc. See also Chapter (II.7).
12. Mudras are described to be twentyfour in number which are
commonly practised in religious worship and supposed to
possess an occult meaning and magical efficacy. (SED p.822).
For their definition and pictorial representation see
PKS, appendices II and VI. and also the note thder Chapter
II.3 of this thesis.