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should for three days not drink from a metal vessel, and wear a fresh dress. Let no Vrishala or Vrishali (a Sûdra man or woman) touch her. At the end of the three days, when she has bathed, the husband should make her pound rice 1
14. And if a man wishes that a white son should be born to him, and that he should know one Veda, and live to his full age, then, after having prepared boiled rice with milk and butter, they should both eat, being fit to have offspring.
15. And if a man wishes that a reddish ? son with tawny eyes should be born to him, and that he should know two Vedas, and live to his full age, then, after having prepared boiled rice with coagulated milk and butter, they should both eat, being fit to have offspring..
16. And if a man wishes that a dark son should be born to him with red eyes, and that he should know three Vedas, and live to his full age, then, after having prepared boiled rice with water and butter, they should both eat, being fit to have offspring.
17. And if a man wishes that a learned daughter should be born to him, and that she should live to her full age, then, after having prepared boiled rice with sesamum and butter, they should both eat, being fit to have offspring.
18. And if a man wishes that a learned son should be born to him, famous, a public man, a popular speaker, that he should know all the Vedas, and that
dinas gâyâya. Sankara, according to Roer, interprets dvârena, but it seems that dârena is used here in the singular, instead of the plural. See Pâraskara Grihya-sûtras I, 11.
1 To be used for the ceremony described in § 14 seq. 3 Kapilo varnatah pingalah pingâkshah.
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