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guests, King Śiva took his iron-pan, cypper spoon and some other ironand copper utensils with him and went to the Disa Proksaka Tāpasas and having accepted religious mendicancy, he became a Diśă Prokṣaka Tapasa. Then, Śiva Rājarsi began to observe a two days' fasting, and Disa Cakravāla Tapa, in accordance with his firm determination. On the completion of the first series of two days' fasting Śiva Rājarsi having put on a garment made of bark went to his cottage and having taken, a pair of strong bamboo baskets suspended at, the end of a bamboo pole on his shoulder, he went towards the East direction and sprinkling pure water towards it, he said -- "May king Soma Mahārājā,– presiding deity of the East-proctect-Siva Rājarsi and grant him permissiou to take tubers, roots, barks, leaves, flowers, fruit, green vegetables, green herbage etc. from the East.
Having previously made the requisite request, and having filled his bamboo basket with tubers, roots, bark, leaves, flowers, fruits etc and having also taken darbha, kusa, fuel etc, he went into his cottage. Having kept the bamboo-basket on one side, he swept the Védică (Vedi-shaped sacrificial atter) and smeared it with cow-dung. Then, having a water jug filled with darbha grass, he went to Ganga-river. Then, having taken his bath in the river, and having given oblations of water to deities and to the Manes he returned to his cottage with the water-pot filled with pure water. There, he made a preparation with darbha, kusa and sand produced fire by rubbing two pieces of Araņi wood and set fire to the fuel.
Śiva Rajarṣi then kept his bark-garment, seat, couch, uten. sils, kamandalu, ascetics water-pot) wooden staff etc on the right side of the brazier of Sacred Fire, and keeping himself on the right, he offered oblations of honey, ghee (ciarified butter) and rice-grains to the Sacred Fire and prepared Caru (oblation of grain boiled in milk, butter or water.) Having given the offering to Vaisva-dèva (to All-gods), he gave hospitable reception to atithi (guest) and then he took his own meal.
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