गान्धर्व तन्त्र (शैव-शाक्त आगम - मन्त्र-रहस्य, यन्त्र एवं देवतोपासना सटीक)

Well filtered sugar-cane-juice should be allowed to
grow stale for some time Mango juice and honey should be
mixed with it as also juices of jujuba, rose-apple fruit,
dates, cocoanut, wine and intoxicative powders such as of
Mohinī, Jāti Datura, Jātīphala, mace, cardamom, black and
long pepper, dry ginger and Triphalā The same should
be scented with camphor and kept in a gold or silver or
glass vessel and mixed with sugar and allowed to remain corked
being covered over with red cloth for seven nights When
at the end it becomes thus prepared and ready for use,
it should be scented again with sandal paste, Agaru and
camphor This kind of wine is reserved for the more or
less abstemious people and for those otherwise-minded a
common species of the same is prescribed Its use is
admissible only in a strictly ceremonious way
The four kinds of food detailed as chewable, suckable,
lickable and drinkable come after drink Every variety of
solid food is to be offered when properly cooked and spiced
Every sweet fruit also is to be offered in cups of gold or
silver and food in dishes of gold, silver, copper and stone or
even in lotus leaves The mantra to be muttered in
this offering is महात्रिपुरसुन्दरि नैवेद्यं गृहाण After offering
the perfumed water, for sipping come the offerings to five
life-breaths Prāna etc, with the five fingers Offering of
dessert comes last except Namaskāra The latter is said
to be of three varieties as physical, lingual and mental The
physical again is of three kinds as that in which a devotee
touches the earth with knees and head, as that in which
hands are folded and placed on the head and as that in