Pujari, temple servants, clean up after the ritual, and take the offering food as their payment. If no Jain comes to the temple, they perform the puja. In the eightfold offering, both men and women can enter the sanctum and touch the images. First, water is poured on the image, symbolising spiritual purity. Then dabs of sandalwood and saffron paste are applied to the image.
Sandalwood cures fever and so cools the passions if karma is to be overcome.
Saffron symbolises the sweet scent of the Jina's teachings, and as it is costly, also shows the sacrifice needed for the ritual. Third come scented perfect flowers symbolising unbroken faith in the Jina's teachings. Incense is waved before the image to symbolise the dispelling of the bad odour of ignorance and worldly desire. The fifth offering is a swinging butter-lamp to represent the disappearance of the darkness of ignorance with the coming of enlightenment. These five offerings are 'limb worship' as the image's limbs are touched.