Mentally bowing before the exalted deity of the Pinaka and making a clay image of that deity, he worshipped it with garlands of flowers.
शरण्यं शरणं गत्वा भगवन्तं पिनाकिनम्। मृन्मयं स्थण्डिलं कृत्वा माल्येनापूजयद् भवम्॥