| Temples & Legends Of Somanatha |
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| Temples & Legends Of India |
CINTRA PRASHASTI OF THE REIGN OF SARANGADEVA |
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64. -"Rejoicing in his heart, he purchased for money from the worshipful Chaturjataka
three excellent shops and presented (them as an endowment for his temples)." Verse 65. -"The best among these, the illustrious chaturjataka ' who wears the garland Of faith in god Shiva, made over to the gardeners in exchange for their daily furnishing the quantity of flowers (required) for the worship." (This was apparently the remuneration for which the guild of the gardeners furnished the flowers.) Verse 66. -"The merchants too (mahajanah = merchants; in Gujarati too mahajana means the same) assigned from each shop one dramma in order to provide the pavitraka and the vistarana at the festivals on the full-moon days of Chaitra and Bhadrapada" (Visheshasthitake left out) Verse 67. - At the Shivaratri (festival) the betelnuts for the bitaka of the Chaturjataka must be furnished by the store house (of the temple of Somanatha) and the leaves by the Mehara." (It is customary to offer pansupari to officials or heads of towns and villages on the occasion of great festivals. |
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