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

24th CHAPTER It describes the importance and fruit of offering worship to the girls and the Prāyaścitta or penance that is to be done by the devotee when he misses performance of the daily worship. It lays stress on the daily worship as compared with the occasional or purposeful and instructs that, on the 14th, 8th or 15th days of the bright half of the month as also on the 14th day of the dark half falling on Tuesday Yajna or sacrifice should be offered to Tripurā. Yajna is considered as a body in which meditation, worship, muttering of the mantra and Homa constitute the four hands, devotion head, faith heart, skill in action eyes, knowledge of the Ātman the soul and Nyāsas the remaining parts of the body. Such a 14th day of the dark-half of the month on which Tuesday and the constellation Tishya fall simultan- eously is the most sacred day for the devotee of Tripurā. 25th CHAPTER This chapter is devoted to the description of the sacred spots in India and the merits that a devotee gains by offering worship in these places. The sacred places are river banks, caves, mountain tops, sources of water, confluences of rivers, forests, gardens, mountain feet, Tulasī-groves, cow- sheds, root of the Aśvattha or Āmalakī, temple of Shiva,