Hunooman was born on a Saturday, and took his seat, for the first time, in the Council of War on a Tuesday: on the same day he was first worshipped. The Brahmin, having terminated his devotions, repeats the Sundhya, and one thousand verses of the Gayatri: he bathes the Idol; and mixing up some vermilion and ghee, he smears the image all over with it: then places before it his offering of rice, sweetmeats, boiled gram, cocoa-nut, bale-leaves, red flowers, chikor-leaves, dhoopghass (hay), betel-leaves, and areeka-nuts. A small cake of flour and treacle is placed in the bottom of a kutora, over which the Devotee pours water from an abkhora with a brass spoon. The lighted artee, and all brass vessels, as in the other Poojas. He then joins his hands, and repeats the following
Translation of the Pooja of Hunooman.
1st verse. "Thou art swifter in thy movements than thought; and thou out-runnest the winds! Thou art wiser than wisdom itself; and thou ravishest all our senses! Thou art born of the winds; and thou art the king of the monkeys, and the favourite of Rama! Such art thou, O Hunooman! Reverence be to thee!
2d verse. "Thou hast not thy equal in this world for strength! Thy body shineth like burnished gold! Thou canst burn the Daityas to ashes; and thou art superior in all knowledge and wisdom.
3d verse. "Reverence to thee, O Hunooman! Deliver me from the power of evil-workers and evil-thinkers; and from the power of necromancers deliver me! Deliver me!
4th verse. "Preserve me from sickness, want, and all the evils of this life. Deliver me! Deliver me!
5th verse. "O thou of five faces! Ram Chunder is thy god, and Unjunee is thy mother! Preserve me!"
The worshipper here makes the signs with his fingers of the Unga-nyás, as repeated in the Sundhya; then the Hridayadinyas: then closing his eyes, and folding his arms, he repeats the following:—
6th verse. "O son of Unjunee and Vayoo, the god of the winds! Thy strength is great, above all things in nature! Thou art the deliverer of Seeta. Thou art the destroyer of Lunka. Thou art the friend of Urjoon. Thy voice is so powerful, that it resounds throughout the universe; and thou canst leap over seven seas: thine eyes are yellow: thou worshippest the sun. Thou art the preserver of Ungud, Lukshmun, and the monkey-army. Thou art the defeater of Rawan; and thou givest delight to Rama and Seeta. One of thy visages
is black: it looks towards the east. The one to the south is yellow; the western one is red; thy northern one is green; and thy fifth face looks up to heaven: is white!
