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8. Of that (pratimā), worship should be performed at three diurnal junctures (sun-rine, noon, sun-set) with an attentive mind and with great effort. It the worsbip) is of elgbt kinds.
9. He, who does worship of Jinesvaras with devotion in eight ways-Damely 1. With Vă-a (perfumed powders) 2. Kusuma (flowers) 3. Akşata (ricegrains) 4, Dhūpa incense) 5. Ghee-lamp 6. vessels full of water 7. Fruits, and 8. Food-materials, producing delight in the eyes of people, has certainly, no auspicious object whick he cannot acquiro. 9-10
Thus 11. By putting sweet scented perfumes of camphor combined with ladra's sandal-wood, on the head of the Omniscient, devout persons become (endowed) with sweet-scented bodies.
12. Devout persons performing worship of the Jineswara with flower garlands of double jasmine (jasminum sambac), lotus, Kadamba (a tres with orange-coloured blossoms) Mallita (a kind of Jasmine) etc, retain the Bliss of Final Emancipation.
13. What is strange in that the rice-grains placed in the field in the feet of Jiaeśvara filled with the water of the lustre of his nails, produ:e a wealth of corn of diving happiness!
14. The incense of camphor and aloe-wood burnt by a man in front of the Lord of the Universe, dispels sin under the guise of the covering of smoke arising (from it)
15. Those, who offer a ghes-larap in the temple of Jinetvara with lovely devotion, attain the status of the only lamp (dignitary) within the three worlds.
16. He, who places vessels filled with water in front of the Lord of the three worlds, certainly gives (an ablation of ) water to miseries acquired before.
17. Persons, doing Jina-pūjá with perfectly ripe and specially fragrant fruits of excellent trees, obtalo wished-for recompenso,
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