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II PRAPATHAKA, 10 KÂNDIKÂ, 7.
28. Then they may do what they like. 29. A cow constitutes the sacrificial fee.
KÂNDIKÂ 10.
1. In the eighth year after the conception let him initiate a Brahmana,
2. In the eleventh year after the conception a Kshatriya,
3. In the twelfth year after the conception a Vaisya.
4. Until the sixteenth year the time has not passed for a Brahmana, until the twenty-second for a Kshatriya, until the twenty-fourth for a
Vaisya.
5. After that time has passed), they become patitasâ vitrika (i. e. they have lost their right of being taught the Savitri).
6. Let them not initiate such men, nor teach them, nor perform sacrifices for them, nor form matrimonial alliances with them.
7. On the day on which the youth is going to receive the initiation, on that day, early in the morning, they give him to eat, and have his hair arranged, and wash him, and deck him with ornaments, and put on him a (new) garment which has not yet been washed.
10, 1 seq. The initiation of the student. Khâdira-Grıhya II, 4, I seq.
1-4. On the number of years given for the Upanayana of persons of the three castes, see the note on Sånkhâyana-Grihya II, 1, 1.
5, 6. Soe the note on Sânkhayana-Gribya II, 1, 9.
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