After honoring the gods, sages, humans, and ancestors, O twice-born one, and having crossed over to the sacred place, the devotee washes his garments and puts on clean, spotless clothes. With a pure mind, he sips water and, on the shore of that great ocean, sits at sunrise facing east, prepared for worship at the auspicious hour of the Sun. The wise practitioner draws a lotus with red sandalwood water—an eight-petaled blossom, round and rich with filaments, its pericarp standing upright. Into a copper vessel, he places sesame seeds, rice, and water mixed with red sandalwood, along with a red flower and sacred grass. If copper is not available, these offerings are set in a leaf of the arka plant, covered properly, with one vessel placed within another. Next, he performs the prescribed gestures with his hands and limbs, focusing his heart and other senses, meditating upon himself as the Sun, and filling his mind with unwavering faith. In the center, upon the petal of Fire, in the southwest upon the petal of Wind, in the domain of the enemy of Desire, and again in the center, he offers worship. Having thus honored the abundant, pure, essential, and supremely blissful presence, and having fully venerated the lotus, the devotee invokes the Sun from the heavens, placing Him upon the lotus’s pericarp. He displays the proper hand gesture, and, after completing all the bathing and preparatory rites, meditates upon the Sun with deep concentration. He envisions the Sun established upon a white lotus—a radiant orb, tawny-eyed, two-armed, red in color, clad in garments the shade of lotus petals, adorned with all auspicious marks and every ornament, beautiful in form, bestower of boons, peaceful, and encircled by a halo of light. As the Sun rises, glowing like dense vermilion, the devotee, taking the vessel, goes to the ground on his knees. Placing the vessel upon his head, with single-minded focus and restrained speech, he offers arghya to the Sun with the three-syllabled mantra. If uninitiated, he offers the arghya simply with the Sun’s name, but always with faith and a heart full of devotion, for the Sun accepts sincere devotion above all. In the directions of Fire, Nirṛti, Wind, Īśa, East, and others, he worships the heart, head, topknot, armor, eyes, and weapon of the deity. Having offered arghya, along with fragrance, incense, lamp, and food, he recites hymns, offers praise, bows, and forms the hand gesture to respectfully dismiss the divine presence. Those who offer arghya to the Sun with controlled senses—whether Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, women, or self-restrained Shudras—through constant devotion and a purified inner self, enjoy their desired pleasures and ultimately attain the supreme state. All who take refuge in Bhāskara, the god who moves through the sky and is the lamp of the three worlds, become recipients of happiness. Until the offering of water is made to Bhāskara as prescribed, one should not begin worship of Viṣṇu or Śaṃkara, the lords of the gods. Therefore, with effort, one should offer water daily to Āditya, with purity, delightful flowers, and fragrances. Whoever, with a pure mind and after bathing, offers such water to Āditya on the seventh day attains the fulfillment of their desires. The sick are freed from illness, the seeker of wealth gains riches, the seeker of knowledge attains learning, and the seeker of sons becomes a father. Whatever desire a wise person holds in his heart while offering water to Sūrya, he fully attains the fruit of that very wish. Bathing in the ocean and then offering water to Sūrya, with reverent bows, brings to both men and women the fulfillment of all desires. After this, taking flowers and with controlled speech, the devotee proceeds to the temple of Sūrya, enters, worships Bhānu, and circumambulates the deity three times. With supreme devotion, he worships Koṇārka, offering fragrances, flowers, lamps, incense, and food. He prostrates himself like a staff, cries out in victory, and sings hymns in praise of the thousand-rayed lord of the world. Such a worshipper gains the merit of ten Aśvamedha sacrifices, becomes free from all sins, and, youthful, attains a divine body. He uplifts seven generations before and after, and ascends in a radiant, wish-fulfilling chariot that shines like the Sun itself. Praised by Gandharvas, he journeys to the world of the Sun and enjoys excellent pleasures there until the end of the cosmic cycle. When his merit is spent, he is born again on earth in the noble family of yogins, becomes a brāhmaṇa learned in the four Vedas, devoted to his duty and pure of heart. Having attained the yoga of Vivasvat, he ultimately achieves liberation. In the month of Caitra, during the bright fortnight, is the pilgrimage called Damanabhañjikā. Whoever performs there the rites described, whether at sunrise, solstice, or equinox, attains these fruits. On the day of the Sun, on the lunar day, or at festival times, those who undertake the pilgrimage there with faith and controlled senses ascend in a radiant chariot to the world of the Sun, dwelling on the great bank of the lord of rivers. There, Rāmeśvara, bestower of all desired fruits, is worshipped. Those who behold that enemy of desire, after properly bathing in the great ocean, and offer fragrances, flowers, incense, lamps, excellent food, prostrations, hymns, songs, and delightful music, attain the full fruit of the Rājasūya and Aśvamedha sacrifices, and supreme accomplishment. Riding in celestial chariots adorned with networks of bells and praised by Gandharvas, they journey on to the world of Śiva, blessed and fulfilled.