| Food
Offerings : Panchashasha (grains of five types - rice,
mung or whole green gram, til or sesame, mashkalai or any variety
of whole black leguminous seed, job or millet), panchagobbo (five
items obtained from the cow - milk, ghee or clarified butter, curd,
cow dung and gomutra ), curd, honey, sugar, three big noibiddos
, one small noibiddo, three bowls of madhupakka (a mixture of honey,
curd, ghee and sugar for oblation), bhoger drobbadi (items for the
feast), aaratir drobbadi mahasnan oil, dantokashtho, sugar cane
juice, an earthen bowl of atop (a type of rice), til toilo (sesame
oil).
Water
Offerings: Ushnodok (lukewarm water), coconut water, sarbooushodhi
, mahaoushodhi, water from oceans, rain water, spring water, water
containing lotus pollen.
Puja
Items: Sindur (vermillion), panchabarner guri (powders
of five different colours - turmeric, rice, kusum flowers or red
aabir, rice chaff or coconut fibre burnt for the dark colour, bel
patra or powdered wood apple leaves), panchapallab (leaves of five
trees - mango, pakur or a species of fig, banyan, betal and Joggodumur
or fig), pancha ratna (five types of gems - gold, diamond, sapphire,
ruby and pearl), panchakoshay (bark of five trees - jaam, shimul,
berela, kool, bokul powdered in equal portions and mixed with water),
green coconut with stalk, three aashonanguriuk (finger ring made
of kusha).
Cloth
Offerings: Gamcha or a piece of cloth to cover the pot,
a dhoti for Vishnu, a sari each for bodhon and Chandi.
Decorative
Items : Ghat or a pot, kundohari , a mirror, four arrows,
tekatha or a triangular frame of wood, horitoki flowers (myrobalan),
chandmala (garland with circular decorations), aashon (a mattress
of jute or hay).
Other
Items : Water camphor and perfumed sandal wood paste. soil
- extracted from elephant tusks, from the teeth of the pig, from
the horns of the ox, from the bank of rivers Ganga and Saraswati,
from both the banks of a river, from a place where four roads intersect,
from palaces, from the ant hill, from the mountains, Vishnu toilo.
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