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## Samidha:
**140.** A wise person should perform homa with samidha made of pipal, palasha, or shami wood, twelve angulas long, moistened with water.
**Trivarna Acharya:**
**140.** A wise person should perform homa with samidha made of pipal, palasha, or shami wood, twelve angulas long, moistened with water.
**141.** Alternatively, one should perform homa with samidha made of barda or palasha (dhaka) wood, separately soaked in sugar, milk, and ghee, using the five mantras beginning with "Namo Arhate." There should be twenty-eight types of samidha in the homa.
**142.** One should make pills of kesar, black sandalwood, camphor, jaggery, guggul, white sandalwood, flowers, akshata, water, roasted rice, and baheda. Offer these pills into the fire with mantras dedicated to the deities like Jaya, etc. After the homa of Brahma-Maya, etc., perform the vattika homa with water. The homa with water mentioned here should be performed only with water.
**143.** Offer oblations into the fire with mantras dedicated to the deities like Jaya, etc. After the homa of Brahma-Maya, etc., perform the vattika homa with water. The homa with water mentioned here should be performed only with water.
**144.** I offer with a spoon, a measure of rice, milk, various kinds of food, cooked food, ghee, cooked rice pudding, sweet pank, banana fruit, and a measure of water.