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III ADHYÂYA, I KHANDA, 10.
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ADHYAYA III, KHANDA 1.
I. A bath (shall be taken by the student) when he is going to return home (from his teacher).
2. 'A bull's hide'-this has been declared. On that hide he makes him sit down and have his hair and beard cut and the hair of the body and the
nails.
3. Having had (the cut-off hair-ends, &c.) thrown away together with rice and barley, with sesamumseed and mustard-seed, with Apâmârga and Sadâpushpi flowers,
4. Having sprinkled him (with water) with the Åpohishthiya-hymn (Rig-veda X, 9),
5. Having adorned him,
6. Having dressed him with two garments with (the verse), “The garments both of you' (Rig-veda I, 152, 1),
7. He then puts on him a golden ornament (with the words), "Giving life and vigour' (Vågasaneyi Samhita XXXIV, 50).
8. With (the verse), Mine, Agni, be vigour' (Rig-veda X, 128, 1), the veiling (of the head is done).
9. With (the verse), ‘House by house the shining one' (Rig-veda I, 123, 4) (he takes) the parasol,
10. With (the verse), · Rise up' (Rig-veda X, 18, 6), the shoes,
1, 2. Comp. above, I, 16, 1, and the note there.
4. Narayana says here, enam mânavakam abhishikya abhishekam snanam kârayitva. Comp. Paraskara II, 6, 9 seq.
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