Instructions for drawing the diagram and placing the various utensils of worship on them are given after this along with the particular mantras for Anga-nyāsa. The practitioner is to offer after Anga-nyāsa sixteen articles such as water for feet etc. Some of these, flower etc., are said to be of various kinds. The attendant deities of Tārā such as Vairochana etc., are to be worshipped in the eight petals with the mantra ऑं वज्रपुष्पं प्रतीच्छ हूँ फट् स्वाहा and Padmāntaka, Yamāntaka, Vighnāntaka and Narakāntaka in the four gates of the Yantra. Offering a Homa is essential as also sacrificing a goat in the The mantra to be used in the latter is ऑं ह्रीं एकजटे महायक्षाधिपे बलिं ग्रह्ण ग्रह ग्रह्णापय ग्रहापय मम शान्तिं कुरु परविद्या. माकर्षय आकर्षय त्रुट त्रुट छिन्धि छिन्धि सर्वजगद्वशमानय The letters of the mantra ह्रीं स्त्री हूं फट् are to be meditated upon in Mulādhāra, Svādhishthana, navel and heart respectively or in the tongue collectively. Before singing the encomiastic hymn (Stuti) the practitioner must request the Devi to accept the Japa with the mantra given in the text along with the Tārāśataka at the end. The latter also appears in the Sāktapramoda. CHAPTER III same. It emphasises the importance and describes the way of Dikshā or Initiation. Every follower of the Devi must have it from a real spiritual teacher. The latter is to have Self-control, decency of dress, absence of hypocrisy, good conduct, intense longing for worshipping the Devi etc. Care is to be taken in selecting the day and place for initiation. Auspicious days are the sixth ( bright) of Bhadoon, fourteenth (dark ) of Assoon, ninth ( bright) of Poh, fourth ( bright) of Māgha, thirteenth of Chaitra, third (bright) of Vaišākha, tenth ( bright) of Jeth, fifth ( bright ) of Hār, fifth ( dark ) of Sāwan. The places are cow-sheds, temples, crematoriums, river-banks and hills. The teacher is to whisper the mantra in the ear of the initiate after worshipping and offering Homa to the Devi. The latter should take care that the former feels satisfied in every way. At the end of the ceremony the initiate is to feed the
