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208 The benediction is as follows :सर्वमुरासुरवन्या कारयितापूर्वसर्वकार्याणाम् । भूपानिजगच्चक्षुर्मलदस्ते सनाया ॥१॥
1. Sarva - surăsura-vandyan karaylta pūrva – sarvakäryanām;
Bhūyāttrijagaccakşu-r-mangaladasté sa-putrāyāḥ.
1. May the one who is respectfully adored by all gods and demi-gads, who is the doer of all marvellous cheeds, and one who is the medium of vision of the three worida, become the giver of auspucious objects to thee, along with the child.
Now a days a mirror is shown instead of the Moon and the Sun.
On the sixth day, they kept awake during the whole night for rellgious meditation.
After the elevnth day, on which the impure operations and ceremonies in connection with the birth of the child had been completed, had passed; and when the twelyth day had come, they got prepared plenty of food, drink, spices and savouries. Having prepard them, they invited their friends, cognates, and domestics, together with the Jkāta ksatriyas. Having invited them and having bathod, they gave offerings ( to family-gods ) and did auspicious rites and expiatory acts, and they put on clean aw picious excellent court-dress (fit for festival occasions ) and adorned their bodies with Vght but very costly ornaments. At dinner-time, they sat on excellent comfortable state-chairs in the diniog-hall, and together with their friends, caste-people, kinsmen, family-members, relations, agnates. cognates, domestics, and together with Jnāta Ksatriyas, they tasted, ( eating a small quantity from it and throwing away a large portion e. g. a sugar-cane ), ate ( eating a very large portion of it and throwing away a few seeds, e. ģ. dates, Juicy fruits ), ate up (consuming the entire potion without throwing
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