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The picture should be beautifully drawn with a variety
of colours with a preponderence of yellow and red tinge.
It is tied to the top-end of a high pole, worshipped and
is taken out in a procession to the streets with an a
amalgam of song, dance and music passing on every road and
through the market places etc. (6-9).
7 For fifteen days this continues and in the
Full-moon evening, the staff and the replicas are placed
on an elephant and taken out amidst great eclat and
splendour to the company of high music and are placed on
a well-decorated pedestal, specially erected for the purpose
136 on the cross-way, where four roads meet (Catuspatha).
The whole night is spent in song, dance and music, performed
before it. And huge offerings of edibles, vegetable
preparations, etc. are made to the love-god at the onset
of the third part of night and then the replicas are burnt
amidst great merriment and with its ash is worshipped Eord
Siva with his various names. Thereafter, with king's
sprinkling (uddhulana) of that ash on his body which is
immitated by all other kings and princes present there the
celebrations come to an end with a purificatory bath
taken by all (10-15).
136. We are informed that the shed which houses the pedestal,
has also good reserve of water (prapa) probably, to
counter the fear of an accident of fire.