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GRIHYA-SUTRA CF APASTAMBA.
6. On the following day she should set upright (the plant) with the next (verse; M. I, 15, 1), should recite the next three (verses; M. I, 15, 2-4) over it, should tie (its root) with the next (verse; M. I, 15, 5) to her hands so that (her husband) does not see it, and should, when they have gone to bed, embrace her husband with her arms, with the verse alluding to the word upadhâna ('putting on;' M. I, 15, 6). 7. Thus he will be subject to her.
8. By this (rite) also (a wife) overcomes her cowives.
9. For this same purpose she worships the sun daily with the next Anuvâka (M. I, 16).
10. If a wife is affected with consumption or is otherwise sick, one who has to observe chastity, should rub her limbs with young lotus leaves which are still rolled up, and with lotus roots, with the next (formulas, limb by limb) according to the characteristics (contained in those formulas; M. I, 17, 1-6), and should throw away (the leaves and roots) towards the west.
11. With the next (verses; M. I, 17, 7-10) he should give the wife's garment (which she has worn at the wedding [?]) to (a Brahmana) who knows this (ceremony).
PATALA 4, SECTION 10.
1. We shall explain the Upanayana (or initiation of the student).
2. Let him initiate a Brâhmana in the eighth year after the conception,
3. A Râganya in the eleventh, a Vaisya in the twelfth year after the conception.
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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 |