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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Nirayavaliyão.
took bath in its water, sported in its water, sprinkled its water on his body, and having done so, and having sipped water, becoming clean and greatly pure, having performed the rite concearning the gods and the ancestors, and with the pot of Darbha grass in his hand, he got out of the great river Ganges and having done so he went to his own hut, and having done so he crected a sacrificial alter by means of Darbha and Kus'a grass and sand, and having done so he prepared the churning-handle (lit. the arrowpoint) and a wooden board (on which fire is produced by churning), and having done so he churned the wooden board by means of the churning handle and ejected fire and enkindled it, and threw into it the sacrificial woods and blazed up the fire and placed on the right side of the fire seven articles viz. (1) Sakatha-an article for the use of ascetics, (2) bark of a tree, (8) a place for sacrificial pots or for fire, (4) utensil for bed, (5) a gourd (6) a wooden staff and (7) drinks: and having done so he offered oblation to fire by throwing honey, ghee and rice into it. Then he prepared parched rice and having done so he offered it as an oblation in the Vaissadeva sacrifice-a kind of household sacrifices for all
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