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**Translation**
The one who makes the child play. The one who holds the child in her lap.
There are two types of each, the one who does and the one who makes do.
4. Kridandhatri 5. Ankhadhatri
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198. Etymology of the word Dhatri
She who carries the child, she is the Dhatri.
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She who nourishes the child, she is the Dhatri.
• She whom the child drinks from (breastfeeds from), she is the Dhatri.
In ancient times, according to their wealth, wealthy people appointed five types of Dhatris.
198/1,2. (The Muni, having gone for alms, sees the child crying and says - ) This child is still dependent on milk, therefore he is crying because he is not getting milk. You, who desire alms, give me alms and feed him milk, or say, feed him milk and then give me alms, or I do not want alms, I will come back for alms again. Or, he who is not humiliated, he is wise, healthy and long-lived. Or say, it is rare to see the face of a son in the world. You feed him milk, otherwise I will feed him milk.
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198/3. If the mistress of the house is virtuous - inclined towards Dharma - when the Sadhu says this, she will perform half-karma-born violence, etc., and if she is wicked - not inclined towards Dharma - then hatred may arise in her mind. If the child becomes ill due to karma-udaya, then the preaching is disrespected. People, thinking the Muni to be flattering, criticize him, or the householder's mind becomes suspicious of the Sadhu's character.
198/4-6. This is another option for Dhatri-karan. Upon going to the house for alms, seeing the devout woman without patience, the Sadhu asked, 'What is the reason for your sorrow?' She said, 'He who helps in sorrow is called something.' When the Muni asked, she said, 'My Dhatritva has been taken away today.' The Muni said, 'I do not know about the age, the thickness of the breasts, and the thinness of the body of the newly appointed Dhatri.' After asking all the details, the Muni went to the wealthy man's house and seeing the child, said, 'It seems this family has just risen high, that is, become prosperous, because if it were traditionally prosperous, the traditional Dhatri would also be skilled. That is, your ancestors did not have knowledge about Dhatri, that is why such and such a Dhatri has been appointed. Whatever skill the child has, it is the effect of past punya, I am informing you by seeing the child.'
198/7. The old Dhatri has weak milk, the child who drinks the milk of the one with excessively large breasts, his nose...