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whole thing is covered with a red cloth,- This basket is kept upon 
a wooden seat having a lotus drawn uponit.! Besides several 
kinds of creepers, footprints of Lakshmee, owls, etc., are painted 
on the floor of the house where Lakshmee is worshippe ed. 
The materials ee for the worship of Lakshmee are—a 
eat made of kusla grass, a candlestick, 
he materials required @ or ag bell, an incense-pot, various 
for ire worship. kinds of flowers, rice, yellow-myro 
sandal, ghee, various sorts of roasted paddy, milk, sugar, sugar 
cane, — various kind of fruits and eatables, betel: leaves, si 
betel-nuts, e 
alvaiets is to be generally ape aees by the housewife of 
a tin the event of her in- 
The person by whom ability to offer coaiehe sauces the 
Lakshmee is to worshipped ceremony is to be performed by the 
ea the time of her wor- priest of the house. This takes place on 
o) 
Vide @gray and months of Pousha (January), Chaitra 
aT | (March), and Bhadra (August) of every 
year when harvests are gathered: and 
especially on the full-moon day of the month of Aswin (Septem- 
ber) and the new-moon day of Kartic (October). Besides these, 
she should not be worshipped in any other month or on any other 
day. Her phere should be solemnized in the evening, not in the 
afternoon nor at n 
The bllowing persons are deserted by Lakshmee: Those who 
offend 
The persons whom Laksh- friends; who speak falsehood and ignore 
mee deserts and with whom the existence of God and whodo not believe 
she — in the transmigration of the soul; who 
Vide atsguuyq | are ingrates and traitors: who give false 
alae aguTg) evidence ; who are cowards and misers; 
who are quarrelsome and have got terma- 
ae wives ; who are Samet of the Vedas, and at their daughters, 
who take m money from the bridegrooms of their daughters ; who 
are re dirty and whose laughter and mode of eating bring hatred upon 
the ave malicious and who obstruct the | marriage of others 
through h jealousy ; who revoke the religious and Brahmanical endow- 
a or impose tax upon them ; who are proud and self-sufficient ; 
ho sleep when the sun rises or sets ; who through miserly habits do 
bir maintain their or wives or "helpless sisters ; and who look 


This form is uonciesced especialy by the Hindu householders of we 
gal in substitution of the first form. In Orissa, Centra] India and Rajputan 
either of the forms is siectieel. 


