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1the ceremony to secure the birth of a son). 18, After she has bathed, her husband should put on her a (new) garment that has not yet been washed, and after having sacrificed he should stand behind her. 19. Grasping down over her right shoulder he 8. pfrvapaksho dfrsasy4. 9. sbhoganena santanuy4d ity eke. 10. svidyam4ne havye yaga#iyanam phalani guhuyat. 11. palasdni va. 12. spo va. 13. hutam hi. 14. prfyastittam ahutasya. 15. sgya#i guhuyad dhavishosnddese. 16. devat& [corr. devatam?] mantranadese. 17. prathamagarbhe trtiye masi pumsavanam. 18. snatém ahatendéfaddya hutv4 pati# prishéhatas tish/Aed. 19. dakshizam amsam anvabhimrésyanantarhitam (hitam, “hitén, the MSS.) nabhidesam abhimriset pumamsav ity. 15,16 desunt. 17-23=II, 6. 394 KHADIRA-GRIHYA-SOTRA. should touch the uncovered place of her navel with (the verse), ‘The two men’ (MB. I, 4, 8). 20. Then another (ceremony). Having bought for three times seven barley corns or beans, a Nyagrodha-shoot which has fruits on both sides, which is not dry, and not touched by worms, he should set that up with (the formula), ‘Ye herbs everywhere, being well-minded, bestow strength on this (shoot) ; for it will do its work.’ 21. He then should take it and place it in the open air. 22, A girl, or a (wife) addicted (to her husband), or a student, or a Brahmazt should pound (that Nyagrodha-shoot) without moving backward (the stone with which she pounds it). 23. (The husband) should make (the wife) who has bathed, lie down, and should insert (that pounded substance) into her right nostril with (the verse), ‘A man is Agni’ (MB. I, 4, 9). 24. Then in the fourth or sixth month (of her pregnancy) the Simantonnayana (or parting of the hair is performed) for her. 25. After she has bathed, her husband should put on her a garment that has not yet been washed, 20. athaparam nyagrodhasungam ubhayatasphalam asramam akrimiparisr7ptam trissaptair yavaih parikriyotth4payen mashair va sarvatraushadhayas sumanaso bhfitva (hutva, hutvam the MSS.) ssyam viryam samadhatteyam karma karishyatfty. 21. dhretya vaihayasim kuryat. 22. kumarf vratavatt brahmaéarf brahmanti va peshayed apratydharanti. 23. sndtam samvesya dakshive ndsikasrotasy Asi#fet pumin Agnir ity. 24. athasyas faturthe masi shash/Ae va simantonnayanam. 25. snatém ahatenaéAadya hutva patiZ préshéatas tish/hann anupfirvaya phalavrikshasakhaya sakrat simantam unnayet trisvetaya salalyayam firg4vato vrrksha iti. 24-27= II, 7, 1 seqq. Il PATALA, 2 KHANDA, 34. 395 and after having sacrificed, he should stand behind her and should part her hair once with a well-proportioned (?) branch of a tree, on which there are fruits, (and) with a porcupine’s quill that has three white spots, with (the verse),‘Rich in sap is this tree’ (MB. I, 5, 1). 26. While she looks at a mess of boiled rice with sesamum seeds, covered with ghee, he should ask her, ‘What dost thou see ?’ 27. He should make her reply, ‘Offspring !’
2I, 5, 1). 26. While she looks at a mess of boiled rice with sesamum seeds, covered with ghee, he should ask her, ‘What dost thou see ?’ 27. He should make her reply, ‘Offspring !’ 28. When the child is appearing, the sacrifice for the woman in labour (is to be performed)— 29. With the two verses, ‘She who athwart’ (MB. I, 5, 6 seq.). 30. He should give a name to the child, ‘N.N.!’ 31. That (is his) secret (name). 32. Before the navel-string is cut off and the breast is given (to the child, the father) should have rice and barley grains pounded in the way prescribed for the Nyagrodha-shoot (see Sftra 22). 33. He should take thereof with his (right) thumb and fourth finger and give it to the child to eat, with (the formula), ‘This order’ (MB. I, 5, 8). 34. And butter with (the verse), ‘May intelligence to thee’ (MB. I, 5, 9). 26. krésarasthalipakam uttaraghritam aveksha[n]tim prikshet kim pasyasiti. 27. pragdm iti vasayet. 28. pratish/hite vastau soshyantihomak. 29. yA tiraséitidvabhyim. 30. asdv iti nama dadhyat. 31. tad guhyam. 32. prin nabhikrzntanat stanadanas ka vrthiyavau peshayek shungavrita. 33. «ngush/Aenanamikaya kadaya kumaram prasayed iyam 4gfeti. 34. sarpis 4a medhan ta iti. 28-34=II, 7, 13 seqq. 396 KHADIRA-GRIHYA-SOTRA. Kuawnpa 3. 1. On the third (Tithi) of the third bright fortnight after his birth, the father should have the child bathed in the morning, and after sunset he should, holding up his joined hands, towards the auspicious directions (of the horizon), worship the moon. 2. The mother, having dressed (the son) in a clean (garment), should hand him, with his face turned to the north, to the father. 3. She then should pass behind (her husband’s) back, and should station herself towards the north. 4. After he has performed worship (to the moon) with the three (verses), ‘Thy heart, O thou with the well-parted hair’ (MB. I, 5, 10 seqq.), and has handed over the son, turning him towards the north, to his mother, he should pour water out of his joined hands with (the verse), ‘What in the moon’ (1.1. 13). 5. (He should do the same) twice silently. 6. After a period of ten nights, or of a hundred nights, or of one year after (the child’s birth) he should give him a name. 7. He who is going to perform (that ceremony— the father or a representative of the father), after he 3, 1. gananag gyautsne tritiye tritiyayam prata snapya kum4ram astam ite sntasu dikshu pita 4andramasam upatishéhet praagalih. 2. sukinashadya mata prayakhed udaksirasam. 3. anuprishiham gatvottaratas tish/red. 4. yat te susima iti tisr7bhir upasth4yodawikam mitre praddya yad ada ity apam afigalim avasi#ked. 5. dvis tishvim. 6. gananad firdhvam dasarftrak Ahataratrat samvatsardd vi ndma kuryat. 7. snapya kumfram karishyata upavish/asya sudinashadya mata prayakhed udaksirasam. 3, 1-3=Gobhila II], 8, 1-7. 6-12=I], 8, 8-17. II PATALA, 3 KHANDA, 17. 397
35. dvis tishvim. 6. gananad firdhvam dasarftrak Ahataratrat samvatsardd vi ndma kuryat. 7. snapya kumfram karishyata upavish/asya sudinashadya mata prayakhed udaksirasam. 3, 1-3=Gobhila II], 8, 1-7. 6-12=I], 8, 8-17. II PATALA, 3 KHANDA, 17. 397 has had the boy bathed, should sit down, and the mother, having dressed him in a clean (garment), should hand him, with his face turned to the north, to the performer (of the ceremony). 8. She then should walk around behind (his) back and should sit down towards the north. _g. He should sacrifice and should touch the senseorgans at (the boy’s) head with the (Mantra), ‘Who art thou ?’ (MB. I, 5, 14, 15.) 10. ‘N. N.!’—/(at the place thus indicated in the Mantra) he should give him a name. 11, The same (he should pronounce) at the end of the Mantra. 12. He should tell it to the mother first. 13. (The father) when returning from a journey, should grasp (with his two hands) his son round the head, with (the verses), ‘From limb by limb’ (MB. I, 5, 16-18). 14. With (the formula), ‘With the cattle’s’ (1.1. 19), he should kiss him. 15. Silently (he should do the same) with a daughter. 16. In the third year the tonsure (of the child’s head is performed). 17. There the barber, warm water, a mirror, or a 8. anuprzsh¢ham gatvottarata upavised. 9. dhutva kossiti tasya mukhy4n praz4n abhimrised. ro. as4v iti ndma kuryat. 11. tad eva mantrante. 12. matre prathamam 4khyaya. 13. viproshy4ng4d ang4d iti putrasya mOrdhanam parigrshniyat. 14. pastnim tvety abhigighret. 15. tOshaim striyas. 16. trétiye varshe Aaulan. 17. tatra nfpita ushtodakam Adarsa4 kshuro vaudumbarah pitgfilya iti dakshizata. 13-15=I, 8, 21-25. 16=33=I1], 9. 398 KHADIRA-GRIHYA-SUTRA. razor of Udumbara-wood, and (Darbha)-blades (are placed) towards the south. 18. A bull's dung and a mess of boiled rice with sesamum seeds which may be more or less cooked, to the north ; 19. And the mother with the son in her lap. 20. (The performer of the ceremony), after having sacrificed, should look, with (the Mantra), ‘ Hither has come’ (MB. I, 6, 1), at the barber, fixing his thoughts on (the god) Savitvz. 21. With (the Mantra), ‘ With warm water’ (1.1. 2), he should look at the warm water, fixing his thoughts on Vayu. 22, With (the Mantra), ‘May the waters’ (1.1. 3), he moistens (the boy’s hair). 23. With (the Mantra), ‘Vishzu’s’ (I.1. 4), he should look at the mirror or at the razor of Udumbara-wood. 24. With (the Mantra), ‘Herb!’ (l.1. 5) he puts seven Darbha-blades, with their points upwards (i.e. towards the boy’s head ?), into (his hair). 25. With (the formula), ‘Axe!’ (1.1. 6) (he presses them down) with the mirror or with the razor of Udumbara-wood. 26. With (the Mantra), ‘With which Pdshan’ (1.1. 7), he should move forward (the razor) three
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1the ceremony to secure the birth of a son). 18, After she has bathed, her husband should put on her a (new) garment that has not yet been washed, and after having sacrificed he should stand behind her. 19. Grasping down over her right shoulder he 8. pfrvapaksho dfrsasy4. 9. sbhoganena santanuy4d ity eke. 10. svidyam4ne havye yaga#iyanam phalani guhuyat. 11. palasdni va. 12. spo va. 13. hutam hi. 14. prfyastittam ahutasya. 15. sgya#i guhuyad dhavishosnddese. 16. devat& [corr. devatam?] mantranadese. 17. prathamagarbhe trtiye masi pumsavanam. 18. snatém ahatendéfaddya hutv4 pati# prishéhatas tish/Aed. 19. dakshizam amsam anvabhimrésyanantarhitam (hitam, “hitén, the MSS.) nabhidesam abhimriset pumamsav ity. 15,16 desunt. 17-23=II, 6. 394 KHADIRA-GRIHYA-SOTRA. should touch the uncovered place of her navel with (the verse), ‘The two men’ (MB. I, 4, 8). 20. Then another (ceremony). Having bought for three times seven barley corns or beans, a Nyagrodha-shoot which has fruits on both sides, which is not dry, and not touched by worms, he should set that up with (the formula), ‘Ye herbs everywhere, being well-minded, bestow strength on this (shoot) ; for it will do its work.’ 21. He then should take it and place it in the open air. 22, A girl, or a (wife) addicted (to her husband), or a student, or a Brahmazt should pound (that Nyagrodha-shoot) without moving backward (the stone with which she pounds it). 23. (The husband) should make (the wife) who has bathed, lie down, and should insert (that pounded substance) into her right nostril with (the verse), ‘A man is Agni’ (MB. I, 4, 9). 24. Then in the fourth or sixth month (of her pregnancy) the Simantonnayana (or parting of the hair is performed) for her. 25. After she has bathed, her husband should put on her a garment that has not yet been washed, 20. athaparam nyagrodhasungam ubhayatasphalam asramam akrimiparisr7ptam trissaptair yavaih parikriyotth4payen mashair va sarvatraushadhayas sumanaso bhfitva (hutva, hutvam the MSS.) ssyam viryam samadhatteyam karma karishyatfty. 21. dhretya vaihayasim kuryat. 22. kumarf vratavatt brahmaéarf brahmanti va peshayed apratydharanti. 23. sndtam samvesya dakshive ndsikasrotasy Asi#fet pumin Agnir ity. 24. athasyas faturthe masi shash/Ae va simantonnayanam. 25. snatém ahatenaéAadya hutva patiZ préshéatas tish/hann anupfirvaya phalavrikshasakhaya sakrat simantam unnayet trisvetaya salalyayam firg4vato vrrksha iti. 24-27= II, 7, 1 seqq. Il PATALA, 2 KHANDA, 34. 395 and after having sacrificed, he should stand behind her and should part her hair once with a well-proportioned (?) branch of a tree, on which there are fruits, (and) with a porcupine’s quill that has three white spots, with (the verse),‘Rich in sap is this tree’ (MB. I, 5, 1). 26. While she looks at a mess of boiled rice with sesamum seeds, covered with ghee, he should ask her, ‘What dost thou see ?’ 27. He should make her reply, ‘Offspring !’
2I, 5, 1). 26. While she looks at a mess of boiled rice with sesamum seeds, covered with ghee, he should ask her, ‘What dost thou see ?’ 27. He should make her reply, ‘Offspring !’ 28. When the child is appearing, the sacrifice for the woman in labour (is to be performed)— 29. With the two verses, ‘She who athwart’ (MB. I, 5, 6 seq.). 30. He should give a name to the child, ‘N.N.!’ 31. That (is his) secret (name). 32. Before the navel-string is cut off and the breast is given (to the child, the father) should have rice and barley grains pounded in the way prescribed for the Nyagrodha-shoot (see Sftra 22). 33. He should take thereof with his (right) thumb and fourth finger and give it to the child to eat, with (the formula), ‘This order’ (MB. I, 5, 8). 34. And butter with (the verse), ‘May intelligence to thee’ (MB. I, 5, 9). 26. krésarasthalipakam uttaraghritam aveksha[n]tim prikshet kim pasyasiti. 27. pragdm iti vasayet. 28. pratish/hite vastau soshyantihomak. 29. yA tiraséitidvabhyim. 30. asdv iti nama dadhyat. 31. tad guhyam. 32. prin nabhikrzntanat stanadanas ka vrthiyavau peshayek shungavrita. 33. «ngush/Aenanamikaya kadaya kumaram prasayed iyam 4gfeti. 34. sarpis 4a medhan ta iti. 28-34=II, 7, 13 seqq. 396 KHADIRA-GRIHYA-SOTRA. Kuawnpa 3. 1. On the third (Tithi) of the third bright fortnight after his birth, the father should have the child bathed in the morning, and after sunset he should, holding up his joined hands, towards the auspicious directions (of the horizon), worship the moon. 2. The mother, having dressed (the son) in a clean (garment), should hand him, with his face turned to the north, to the father. 3. She then should pass behind (her husband’s) back, and should station herself towards the north. 4. After he has performed worship (to the moon) with the three (verses), ‘Thy heart, O thou with the well-parted hair’ (MB. I, 5, 10 seqq.), and has handed over the son, turning him towards the north, to his mother, he should pour water out of his joined hands with (the verse), ‘What in the moon’ (1.1. 13). 5. (He should do the same) twice silently. 6. After a period of ten nights, or of a hundred nights, or of one year after (the child’s birth) he should give him a name. 7. He who is going to perform (that ceremony— the father or a representative of the father), after he 3, 1. gananag gyautsne tritiye tritiyayam prata snapya kum4ram astam ite sntasu dikshu pita 4andramasam upatishéhet praagalih. 2. sukinashadya mata prayakhed udaksirasam. 3. anuprishiham gatvottaratas tish/red. 4. yat te susima iti tisr7bhir upasth4yodawikam mitre praddya yad ada ity apam afigalim avasi#ked. 5. dvis tishvim. 6. gananad firdhvam dasarftrak Ahataratrat samvatsardd vi ndma kuryat. 7. snapya kumfram karishyata upavish/asya sudinashadya mata prayakhed udaksirasam. 3, 1-3=Gobhila II], 8, 1-7. 6-12=I], 8, 8-17. II PATALA, 3 KHANDA, 17. 397
35. dvis tishvim. 6. gananad firdhvam dasarftrak Ahataratrat samvatsardd vi ndma kuryat. 7. snapya kumfram karishyata upavish/asya sudinashadya mata prayakhed udaksirasam. 3, 1-3=Gobhila II], 8, 1-7. 6-12=I], 8, 8-17. II PATALA, 3 KHANDA, 17. 397 has had the boy bathed, should sit down, and the mother, having dressed him in a clean (garment), should hand him, with his face turned to the north, to the performer (of the ceremony). 8. She then should walk around behind (his) back and should sit down towards the north. _g. He should sacrifice and should touch the senseorgans at (the boy’s) head with the (Mantra), ‘Who art thou ?’ (MB. I, 5, 14, 15.) 10. ‘N. N.!’—/(at the place thus indicated in the Mantra) he should give him a name. 11, The same (he should pronounce) at the end of the Mantra. 12. He should tell it to the mother first. 13. (The father) when returning from a journey, should grasp (with his two hands) his son round the head, with (the verses), ‘From limb by limb’ (MB. I, 5, 16-18). 14. With (the formula), ‘With the cattle’s’ (1.1. 19), he should kiss him. 15. Silently (he should do the same) with a daughter. 16. In the third year the tonsure (of the child’s head is performed). 17. There the barber, warm water, a mirror, or a 8. anuprzsh¢ham gatvottarata upavised. 9. dhutva kossiti tasya mukhy4n praz4n abhimrised. ro. as4v iti ndma kuryat. 11. tad eva mantrante. 12. matre prathamam 4khyaya. 13. viproshy4ng4d ang4d iti putrasya mOrdhanam parigrshniyat. 14. pastnim tvety abhigighret. 15. tOshaim striyas. 16. trétiye varshe Aaulan. 17. tatra nfpita ushtodakam Adarsa4 kshuro vaudumbarah pitgfilya iti dakshizata. 13-15=I, 8, 21-25. 16=33=I1], 9. 398 KHADIRA-GRIHYA-SUTRA. razor of Udumbara-wood, and (Darbha)-blades (are placed) towards the south. 18. A bull's dung and a mess of boiled rice with sesamum seeds which may be more or less cooked, to the north ; 19. And the mother with the son in her lap. 20. (The performer of the ceremony), after having sacrificed, should look, with (the Mantra), ‘ Hither has come’ (MB. I, 6, 1), at the barber, fixing his thoughts on (the god) Savitvz. 21. With (the Mantra), ‘ With warm water’ (1.1. 2), he should look at the warm water, fixing his thoughts on Vayu. 22, With (the Mantra), ‘May the waters’ (1.1. 3), he moistens (the boy’s hair). 23. With (the Mantra), ‘Vishzu’s’ (I.1. 4), he should look at the mirror or at the razor of Udumbara-wood. 24. With (the Mantra), ‘Herb!’ (l.1. 5) he puts seven Darbha-blades, with their points upwards (i.e. towards the boy’s head ?), into (his hair). 25. With (the formula), ‘Axe!’ (1.1. 6) (he presses them down) with the mirror or with the razor of Udumbara-wood. 26. With (the Mantra), ‘With which Pdshan’ (1.1. 7), he should move forward (the razor) three
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