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should be brought into a curve, the rosary should be kept on the middle knuckle of our index finger. Then, with the first tip of the thumb the beads of the rosary should be moved in such a way that they are not touched by the nails. This is a scriptural ordinance. How To Use The Rosary? (a) The rosary selected for the chanting of the Navakara
Mahamahtra should be the one on which 18 sprinklings are made, it is authorised with the Pratishtha Mantra of Acharya Dinakara and sanctified with the Surimantra or the Vardhamana
Vidya. (b) The chanting should be done only with a fresh rosary
and it should not be given to anybody else for
chanting. (c) No hand of anybody else should be allowed to touch
the rosary. (d) No box of plastic, aluminium or steel should be made
use of for its placement. Which Rosary To be Used ?
The rosary of cotton threads or sandalwood is the best. Rosary of Plastic not to be Used :
Through ignorance todayi plastic rosary is much in use for Navakara. This is in no way proper. Through correspondence with companies and scientists, it has been confirmed that :
"Plastic is manufactured from a thing like the extracts from trees. Extremely impious substances like the extract of the intestine of an ox is used in order to make it attractive.
