Text 17]
The Lord Incarnates as Mohini-mūrti
13
TRANSLATION
The demigods and demons then observed a fast. After bathing, they offered clarified butter and oblations into the fire and gave charity to the cows and to the brāhmaṇas and members of the other orders of society, namely the kṣatriyas, vaiśyas and śūdras, who were all rewarded as they deserved. Thereafter, the demigods and demons performed ritualistic ceremonies under the directions of the brāhmaṇas. Then they dressed themselves with new garments according to their own choice, decorated their bodies with ornaments, and sat facing east on seats made of kuśa grass.
PURPORT
The  Vedas  enjoin that for every ritualistic ceremony one must first become clean by bathing either in the water of the Ganges or Yamunā or in the sea. Then one may perform the ritualistic ceremony and offer clarified butter into the fire. In this verse the words  paridhāya āhatāni  are especially significant. A  sannyāsī  or a person about to perform a ritualistic ceremony should not dress himself in clothing sewn with a needle.
TEXTS 16-17
प्राङ्मुखेषूपविष्टेषु सुरेषु दितिजेषु च । 
  धूपामोदितशालायां जुष्टायां माल्यदीपकैः ॥१६॥ 
  तस्यां नरेन्द्र करमोरुरुश्दुकूल- 
  शोणीतिटात्सगतिर्यदविह्वलाक्षी । 
  सा कूजती कनकनूपुरशिञ्जितेन 
  कुम्भस्तनी कल्पपाणिरथाविवेश ॥१७॥
prāṅ-mukheṣūpaviṣṭeṣu 
  sureṣu ditijeṣu ca 
  dhūpāmodita-śālāyāṁ 
  juṣṭāyāṁ mālya-dīpakaiḥ
tasyāṁ narendra karabhorur uśad-dukūla- 
  śroṇī-taṭālasa-gatir mada-vihvalākṣī