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SÂNKHAYANA-GRIHYA-SÛTRA.
2. Let (the father) breathe three times on the new-born child and then draw in his breath with the words, 'Draw in your breath with the Rik, breathe within with the Yagus, breathe forth with the Sâman.'
3. Let him mix together butter and honey, milk curds and water, or grind together rice and barley, and give it to eat (to the child) thrice from gold (i.e. from a golden vessel or with a golden spoon),
4. With (the verse), 'I administer to thee honey food for the festival, the wisdom (" veda") raised by Savitar the bountiful; long-living, protected by the gods, live a hundred autumns in this world, N. N.!'(with these words) he gives him a name beginning with a sonant, with a semivowel in it, consisting of two syllables, or of four syllables, or also of six syllables; he should take a krit (suffix), not a taddhita.
5. That (name only) his father and his mother should know.
6. On the tenth day a name for common use, which is pleasing to the Brâhmanas.
7. Let him pulverise black and white and red hairs of a black ox, intermix (that powder) with those four substances (see Satra 3), and give it to eat (to the child) four times : such (is the opinion of) Mândûkeya.
I, 31; Nârâyana's note on chap. 25, 4, p. 133 of the German edition).
2. Abhyavânya should be corrected into abhya pânya, as in IV, 18, I nearly all the MSS. read nivâta instead of nipata. The Sâmbavya MS. reads in the text, trir abhyânyânuprânya; in the commentary trir anya pânyânuprânya. Comp., on the terminology of the different vital airs, Speijer, Gâtakarma, p. 64 seq.; Eggeling, S. B. E., vol. xii, p. 20.
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| SR No. | 007685 |
| Book Title | Grihya Sutras |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hermann Oldenberg |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1886 |
| Total Pages | 2642 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 49 MB |