Kalu kaputan sudu venaṭuru
Ẹhẹla kanu liyalana turu
Gerandianta aṇ enaturu
Ekasiya vissaṭa desiya vissak
Maha Brahma Râjayâ atinya
Âyibôvan âyibôvan âyibôvan.
“This (anointing) is done by the hand of Maha Brâhma; long life to you, long life to you, long life to you! may you, instead of the ordinary period of life, viz., 120 years, live for 220 years; till rat-snakes obtain horns, till posts of the Ẹhẹla tree (Cassia fistula) put on young shoots, and till black crows put on a plumage white.”
While being annointed the person faces a particular direction, having over his head leaves sacred to the ruling planet of the day, and at his feet those sacred to the regent of the previous day. For each of the days of the week, beginning with Sunday, belong respectively the cotton tree (imbul), the wood-apple (diwul), the Cochin gamboge (kollan), the margosa (kohomba), the holy fig-tree (bo) Galidupa arborea (karanda) and the banyan (nuga).
This rite is followed by the wearing of new clothes, after a bath in an infusion of screw-pine (wẹtake), Suffa acutangula (wẹtakolu), Evolvulus alsinoides (Vishnu-krânti), Aristolochia indica (sapsanda), Crinum zeylanicum (godamânel), roots of citron (nasnâranmul), root of Aegle marmelos (belimul), stalk of lotus, (nelum danḍu), Plectranthus zeylanicus (irivériya), Cissompelos convolvulus (gẹtaveni-vẹl) Heterepogon hirtus (îtana) and bezoar stone (gorôchana).
This festival is also observed at the Buddhist temples when milk is boiled at their entrances and sprinkled on the floor.