Prayer

gangecha yamunechaiva godaavari saraswati
narmadua sindhu kaaveri jalehsmin sannidhim kuru
Oh Ganga, Yamuna, Godaavari, Saraswati,
Narmada, Sindhu and Kaaveri waters, please present yourselves
in this holy place

Now that we have received the sacred waters, it is time to symbolically cleanse your hands by offering a spoonful (uddharane) of water into the hands of the principals by wiping the hands with reverence, and chanting

apavitrah pavitrovaa sarvauvasthaam gatopivaa
yahsmareth pundareekoaksham bahynabhyantarah
shuchihi

May anything unholy become holy, may all lower
tendencies depart cleansing both inside and out as
we remember the Lotus-eyed

The above are excerpts from the booklet How to Conduct Puja to SriRamachandra, by Dr. A. V. Srinivasan, published by http://www.periplusbooks.com/.

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