गान्धर्व तन्त्र (शैव-शाक्त आगम - मन्त्र-रहस्य, यन्त्र एवं देवतोपासना सटीक)

Well filtered sugar-cane-juice should be allowed to grow stale for some time Mango juice and honey should be mixed with it as also juices of jujuba, rose-apple fruit, dates, cocoanut, wine and intoxicative powders such as of Mohinī, Jāti Datura, Jātīphala, mace, cardamom, black and long pepper, dry ginger and Triphalā The same should be scented with camphor and kept in a gold or silver or glass vessel and mixed with sugar and allowed to remain corked being covered over with red cloth for seven nights When at the end it becomes thus prepared and ready for use, it should be scented again with sandal paste, Agaru and camphor This kind of wine is reserved for the more or less abstemious people and for those otherwise-minded a common species of the same is prescribed Its use is admissible only in a strictly ceremonious way The four kinds of food detailed as chewable, suckable, lickable and drinkable come after drink Every variety of solid food is to be offered when properly cooked and spiced Every sweet fruit also is to be offered in cups of gold or silver and food in dishes of gold, silver, copper and stone or even in lotus leaves The mantra to be muttered in this offering is महात्रिपुरसुन्दरि नैवेद्यं गृहाण After offering the perfumed water, for sipping come the offerings to five life-breaths Prāna etc, with the five fingers Offering of dessert comes last except Namaskāra The latter is said to be of three varieties as physical, lingual and mental The physical again is of three kinds as that in which a devotee touches the earth with knees and head, as that in which hands are folded and placed on the head and as that in