Note 92 — Chapter IV · WORSHIP OF ANCESTORS AND SAINTS.
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Some hold a recitation of the chandi kavach a hundred times through Brāhmans with sacrificial oblations of clarified butter, sesamum seed, kamod (a kind of rice), gugal (rhododendron), sandal wood and sugarcandy.92 Others have the story of the Harivansha recited on seventeen consecutive days, during which period the devotee (i.e., the barren woman) observes brahmacharya, that is abstains from sexual enjoyment. This ceremony is believed to exorcise the fiend of barrenness.92