Objective: To perform specific ritual acts to nullify inauspicious influences of a solar eclipse.
Prerequisites/Requirements: Wheat, jaggery, copper, ghee, green fodder, grains, rice, milk, saffron.
Step-by-Step Instructions:
- Donate wheat, jaggery, copper, or ghee to a temple or a Brahmin.
- Prepare fried bread and feed it to black dogs.
- Offer clean water to the Sun.
- Recite or chant the Aditya Hriday Stotra.
- Provide green fodder to a cow.
- Feed birds with a mixture of various grains.
- Ensure strict abstinence from meat and liquor.
- Offer a donation of rice to a Durga Mata temple.
- Offer water or milk mixed with saffron to a Shiva Lingam.
