At first, the reciter, clad in good dresses, and smeared with perfumed paste, should, O king, be duly fed with honey and frumenty of the best kind.
आदौ तु वाचकं चैव वस्त्रगन्धसमन्वितम्। विधिवद् भोजयेद् राजन् मधु पायसमुत्तमम्॥