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Aspects of Brahmanical Influence on the Jaina Mythology
are born from (my) limbs, you have sprung also from (my) heart, you are indeed myself in the form (my) son; therefore, live for a hundred years.'20 Next, the father is enjoined to moist the navel of the child with milk and clarified butter and to sever the navel-cord This act being over, the child should be washed with medicated water and be given the breasts of the mother Thus, with the exceptions of somc minor varia. ti cos in the details, the observance of the Samsl ára, in qucstion, does not register any difference from its Brahmanical counterpart
Namakarman (Name-giving)
The name-giving rite should be observed after the twelfth day (from birth) 21 The ceremony according to the MP, should be performed on "a day (that is) favourable and lucky both for the child and its parents "?! We are further told that “such Dame should be conferred (on the child) as will be auspicious and promoter of the family prosperity "93 Jinasepa, however, does not show class-discrimination with regard to the names to be given to the members of the different classes 24 Further, unlike Brahmanical sources, the work does not refer to the varieties of names to be selected on the occasion of namegiving 25 The only option allowed by the MP is ibat ihe work prescribes, in addition to the traditional family name, selection of a name from one thousand and eight Jina-Dames by Ghata
20 For the relevant vente occurriog 10 M Bh and MP, ce Sifra introduc
tion, notes 5-6 21. ETESITETETT FIT ForfEATHGI
-MP 38 87 Comp Monu 2 30 Tajfia 1-12. Also see Erhasfari's opinion cited in Viramitrodage and
quo'ed in Hindu Samsháros, p 108 22 magie a TEATEA faut fa qaratil
Ibid , 38 875 23 शस्त च नामधेयं तत् स्थाप्यमन्वयवृद्धिकृत ॥
-Ibid , 38 88b 24 Manu 2 31-32 28. HS pp. 103-107.
