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

24th CHAPTER
It describes the importance and fruit of
offering worship to the girls and the Prāyaścitta or
penance that is to be done by the devotee when he misses
performance of the daily worship. It lays stress on the daily
worship as compared with the occasional or purposeful and
instructs that, on the 14th, 8th or 15th days of the bright
half of the month as also on the 14th day of the dark half
falling on Tuesday Yajna or sacrifice should be offered to
Tripurā. Yajna is considered as a body in which meditation,
worship, muttering of the mantra and Homa constitute the
four hands, devotion head, faith heart, skill in action eyes,
knowledge of the Ātman the soul and Nyāsas the remaining
parts of the body. Such a 14th day of the dark-half of the month
on which Tuesday and the constellation Tishya fall simultan-
eously is the most sacred day for the devotee of Tripurā.
25th CHAPTER
This chapter is devoted to the description of the
sacred spots in India and the merits that a devotee gains
by offering worship in these places. The sacred places are river
banks, caves, mountain tops, sources of water, confluences of
rivers, forests, gardens, mountain feet, Tulasī-groves, cow-
sheds, root of the Aśvattha or Āmalakī, temple of Shiva,