Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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VISHNU.
XXVII, 10.
10. The Adityadarsana (ceremony of taking the child out to see the sun) should take place in the fourth month (after birth).
11. The Annaprâsana (ceremony of first feeding) should take place in the sixth month.
12. The Kûdâkarana (tonsure rite) should take place in the third year 1,
13. For female children the same ceremonies, (beginning with the birth ceremony, should be performed, but) without Mantras.
14. The marriage ceremony only has to be performed with Mantras for them.
15. The initiation of Brâhmanas (should take place) in the eighth year after conception;
16. Of Kshatriyas, in the eleventh year after conception ;
17. Of Vaisyas, in the twelfth year after conception;
18. Their girdles should be made of Muñga grass, a bow-string, and Balbaga (coarse grass) respectively.
19. Their sacrificial strings and their garments should be made of cotton, hemp, and wool respectively. at the same time, another rule regarding the second part of a compound name), 1. Vishnusarman; 2. Bhîmavarman; 3. Devagupta ; 4. Dharmadása.
10. According to Nand., who quotes a passage of Yama in support of his opinion, this Satra has to be divided into two, which would, however, require several words to complete their sense, the import of the first being, that the child should be taken out to see the sun in the third month, and to see the moon in the fourth month. See the Introduction.
12. 1. The third year,' i.e. either after conception, or after birth. (Nand.)
15-17. 'Nand., or after birth.' See Pâr. and Âsv. loc. cit.
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