स्पृष्ट्वा स्नानादिकं काले कुर्यात्साधकसत्तमः
Having touched water, at the proper time, the excellent practitioner should perform bathing and related rites.
समुद्धृत्य पञ्चपिण्डानादौ धर्मी विचक्षणः
Having taken up the five balls of food at the beginning, the wise and righteous one should proceed.
कुर्य्यात्स्नात्वा तु सङ्कल्पं ततः स्नानं पुनर्मुने
After bathing, one should make a resolve, and then, O sage, bathe again.
सङ्कल्पो गृहिणां चैव कृतपातकनाशकः 1.26.
For householders, the resolve destroys sins that have been committed.
वेदोक्तमन्त्रेणानेन देहशुद्धिकृते नरः
With this Vedic mantra, a person should purify the body.
मृत्तिके हर मे पापं यन्मया दुष्कृतं कृतम्
O earth, take away my sin, whatever wrong I have done.
आरुह्य मम गात्राणि सर्वं पापं प्रमोचय
Having come upon my limbs, remove all my sins.
इत्युक्त्वा च जले नाभिप्रमाणे मन्त्रपूर्वकम्
Having spoken thus, and standing in water up to the navel, with the mantra as prescribed,
तीर्थान्यावाहयेत्तत्र हस्तं दत्त्वा तपोधन
One should invoke the sacred waters there, placing the hand, O ascetic.
गङ्गे च यमुने चैव गोदावरि सरस्वति
O Gaṅgā, O Yamunā, O Godāvarī, O Sarasvatī,
नलिनी नन्दिनी सीता मालिनी च महापगा
O Nalinī, O Nandinī, O Sītā, O Mālinī, O great river,
पद्मावती भोगवती स्वर्णरेखा च कौशिकी
O Padmāvatī, O Bhogavatī, O Svarṇarekhā, O Kauśikī,
विद्याधरी सुप्रसन्ना तथा लोकप्रसाधिनी
O Vidyādharī, O Suprasannā, and also O Lokaprasādhinī,
सावित्री तुलसी दुर्गा महालक्ष्मीः सरस्वती 1.26.
O Sāvitrī, O Tulasī, O Durgā, O Mahālakṣmī, O Sarasvatī,
अहल्या चादितिः संज्ञा स्वधा स्वाहाऽप्यरुन्धती
O Ahalyā, O Aditi, O Saṃjñā, O Svadhā, O Svāhā, and O Arundhatī,
स्नात्वा स्नात्वा महापूतः कुर्य्यात्तु तिलक बुधः
Having bathed repeatedly, being greatly purified, the wise one should then apply the tilaka mark.
स्नानं दानं तपो होमो देवतापितृकर्म च
Bathing, giving, austerity, oblation, and rites for the gods and ancestors—
ब्राह्मणस्तिलकं कृत्वा कुर्य्यात्सन्ध्यां च तर्पणम्
A brāhmaṇa, having applied the tilaka, should perform the twilight worship and the offering of water.
प्रक्षाल्य पादौ यत्नेन धृत्वा धौते च वाससी
Carefully washing the feet and putting on clean garments,
विना पादक्षालनं यः स्नात्वा विशति मन्दिरम्
Whoever, after bathing, enters the temple without washing the feet,
परिधाय स्निग्धवस्त्रं गृहं च प्रविशेद्गृही
Having put on smooth clothing, the householder should enter the house.
जङ्घोर्ध्वतश्च यो विप्रः पादौ प्रक्षालयेद्यदा
And if a Brāhmaṇa washes his feet only above the shins,
उपविश्यासने ब्रह्मञ्छुचिराचम्य साधकः
Sitting on a seat, O Brāhmaṇa, the pure practitioner should sip water for purification.
शालग्रामे मणौ मन्त्रे प्रतिमायां जले स्थले 1.26.
Whether at the Śālagrāma stone, in a gem, with a mantra, at an image, in water, or on land—
सर्वेषु शस्ता पूजा च शालग्रामे च नारद
In all these, worship is praiseworthy, and especially at the Śālagrāma, O Nārada.
स स्नातः सर्वतीर्थेषु सर्वयज्ञेषु दीक्षितः
He is as if bathed in all sacred waters and initiated in all sacrifices.
शालग्रामजलं भक्त्या नित्यमश्नाति यो नरः
Whoever daily drinks water from the Śālagrāma stone with devotion,
शालग्रामशिलाचक्रं यत्र तिष्ठति नारद
Wherever the Śālagrāma stone and its disc are present, O Nārada,
तत्र यो हि मृतो देही ज्ञानाज्ञानेन दैवतः
Whoever dies there, knowingly or unknowingly, attains the divine.
शालग्रामं विनाऽन्यत्र कः साधुः पूजयेद्धरिम्
Apart from the Śālagrāma, who else, being virtuous, would worship Hari elsewhere?