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GRIHYA-SUTRA OF HIRANYAKESIN.
Before with (the Mantra), 'That he may long live in joy, and may long see the sun.'
12. After the hair has been shaven, they arrange the locks (which are left over), according to custom or according to what family he belongs.
13. A person who is kindly disposed towards him, gathers the (cut-off) hair and buries it in a cowstable, or near an Udumbara tree, or in a clump of Darbha grass, with (the Mantra), 'Where Pûshan, Brihaspati, Savitri, Soma, Agni (dwell), they have in many ways searched where they should depose it, between heaven and earth, the waters and heaven.'
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14. He makes a gift to a Brâhmana according to his liberality.
15. To the barber (he gives) boiled rice with butter.
16. In the same way the Godânakarman (or the ceremony of shaving the beard) is performed in the sixteenth year.
17. He has him shaven including the top-lock.
18. Some declare that he leaves there the toplock.
19. Or he performs the Godâna sacred to Agni. 20. He gives a cow to his Guru.
End of the First Patala.
13. Comp. I, 3, 9, 18.
14. Literally, according to his faith (yathâsraddham).
19. Agnigodâno vâ kumâro bhavati upasamâdhânâdi punyâhavâkanântam agnikâryam iva vâ bhavatîty arthah. Mâtridatta. Comp., however, the note on Âpastamba-Grihya VI, 16, 13.
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