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In plain words
The finest rice, sweet and soft, rests in a ruby bowl, with many fine vegetables seasoned with asafoetida, cumin, and excellent pepper. The vegetable dish is served with cakes and lentil soup and drenched in fresh ghee. Śrī Mṛtyuñjaya, Pārvatī's beloved, all-pervading Lord, eat this meal with its water for sipping.
Close to the Sanskrit
Royal rice, endowed with sweetness and soft, placed in a ruby vessel; with many auspicious vegetables mingled with asafoetida, cumin and fine pepper; the vegetable dish well accompanied by cakes and lentil broth, drenched in fresh ghee — O glorious Mṛtyuñjaya, O beloved of Pārvatī, O all-pervading one, let it be eaten together with the sipping of water.