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RULES FOR WASHING
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You are the stay and support
their happiness
I think of you, and it
of all living creatures here below
mind to bathe in your sacred waters. Deign to
is in
sins and deliver me from all evil.'
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II. This prayer ended, he must think of the seven sacred
promote
!
!
my
my
Jumna, the Indus, the Godavari,
the Saras vati, the Nerbudda, and the Cauvery). Then
plunging into the water, he fixes his thoughts intently
on the Ganges, and imagines that he is really bathing in
that river.
III. His ablutions finished, he turns towards the sun,
takes water in his hands three times, and makes a libation
to the sun by letting the water run off the tips of his fingers.
IV. He then leaves the water, girds up his loins with
a pure cloth, and puts another on his shoulders.
He sits
down with his face to the east, fills his brass vessel with
water