Vastra

(“clothing”) The seventh of the sixteen
traditional upacharas (“offerings”)
given to a deity as part of worship, on
the model of treating the deity as an
honored guest. In this offering, the deity
is offered clothing, either through symbolic presentation or through physically
dressing the image. The underlying
motive here, as for all the upacharas, is
to show one’s love for the deity and minister to the deity’s needs.