Devapūjā-krama: Ārghya-saṃskāra, Maṇḍala–Nyāsa, Mudrā-pradarśana, Āvaraṇa-arcana, Homa, Japa, and Kṣamāpaṇa
नत्वा च दंडवन्मंत्री ततः कुर्यात्प्रदक्षिणाः । विष्णुसोमार्कविघ्नानां वेदार्धेंद्वद्रिवह्नयः ॥ १०५ ॥
natvā ca daṃḍavanmaṃtrī tataḥ kuryātpradakṣiṇāḥ | viṣṇusomārkavighnānāṃ vedārdheṃdvadrivahnayaḥ || 105 ||
منتر پڑھنے والا دَندوت کی طرح جھک کر پرنام کرے، پھر پردکشنا کرے۔ وشنو کے لیے ‘نصفِ وید’ کے مطابق، سوم کے لیے ‘چاند’ کے مطابق، ارک کے لیے ‘پہاڑ’ کے مطابق، اور وِگھن ہرتا کے لیے ‘آگ’ کے مطابق پردکشنا کی تعداد اشارتی الفاظ سے بتائی گئی ہے۔
Narada
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
It teaches that devotion is expressed not only by mantra but also by embodied reverence—full prostration and clockwise circumambulation—done in a measured, tradition-bound way.
Bhakti here is practical and disciplined: the devotee-priest honors Viṣṇu and allied deities through humility (daṇḍavat praṇāma) and service-like movement (pradakṣiṇā), aligning body, speech, and mind in worship.
It reflects technical ritual convention using code-words for numbers (bhūta-saṅkhyā) to specify counts of pradakṣiṇā—e.g., ‘half of the Vedas’ = 2, ‘moon’ = 1, ‘mountains’ = 7, ‘fires’ = 3—applied within mantra-based worship.