Satapatha Bramhana Part 02

SR No.: 007678
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1885
Total Pages: 2521
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 44 MB

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PÂRASKARA-GRIHYA-SÛTRA.
• The gold-child' (Vâg. Samh. XIII, 4) and · Formed of water' (ibid. XXXI, 17);
4. A Kusa needle and a Soma stalk, according to some (teachers).
5. And he puts gall of a tortoise on her lap.
If he desires, ‘May (the son) become valiant,' he recites over him (i.e. over the embryo), modifying the rite (?), “The Suparna art thou’(Våg. Samh. XII, 4), (the Yagus) before (the formulas called) 'steps of Vishnu.
KANDIKÂ 15. 1. Now the Simantonnayana (or parting of the pregnant wife's hair).
2. (It is performed) like the Pumsavana ;
3. In her first pregnancy, in the sixth or eighth month.
4. After he has cooked a mess of sacrificial food, containing sesamum and Mudga beans, and has sacrificed to Pragâpati, he parts for the wife, who is seated to the west of the fire on a soft chair, her hair upwards (i.e. beginning from the front) with a bunch containing an even number of unripe Udumbara
4. Comp. Sânkhâyana-Grihya I, 20, 3.
5. The commentators state that kûrmapitta (gall of tortoise) means 'a dish with water. I place no confidence in this statement, though I cannot show at present what its origin is. I am not sure about the translation of vikrityâ (or vikritya ?). But it seems impossible to me that it should be the name of the metre Vikriti. 'Steps of Vishnu' is a name for the Yagus following in the Samhita on the one prescribed in this Satra. It begins, Vishnu's step art thou, &c.' (Vâg. Samh. XII, 5).
15, 2. I. e. the Nakshatra under which the ceremony is performed, should be of male gender; the wife is to fast, &c. (see chap. 14, 3).
4. Sânkhâyana-Grıhya I, 22, 8; Âsvalâyana I, 14, 4.
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