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meats and dainties were distributed among friends, kinsmen, relatives and other subordinates There were dance parties in which the king participated and then in the presence of the relations the child was given a name (namakarana) which had descended from generation after generation $4
Then various ceremonies were performed when at appropriate occasions the child started babbling (parangamana), and walking cankamanal, when he had the first taste of solid food (emamana), when the first intelligible words came out from his mouth (pajapparana), and when his ears were bored kannavedha Then there was buth ceremony (samraccharapadılakkhana), tonsure ceremony (colopana), sacred thrcad ceremony (uranayana) and ceremony oflcarning the alphabets (kalāgahana) 35
In his babyhood a child was attended by fivc nurses as noted above 8 Besides there were a large number of attendants brought from foreign countries who were skilful, accomplished and well-trained, to be entrusted with the children.37 The Nisītha cū m describes in detail the various nurses, particularly the wet-nurse and the effect of her milk on the child. 38
84 Somctinics thc Janne gi had some Icletenee luan caliei event. A son of hung Sci
ya was nad Mchakuma'a bccausc his mother had had the craving of sceing iainclouds out of scason (Naya 1, p 201); a boy was named Unbaladalla bcr ausc his
mothcı had had the ci aving of worshipping the Umbaia Jahkha (1 7, p 44) 35 Bhagavati (11 11), cf Nārā (1, 21), Orū Su , 40, P 185, Kulpa Sū 3 102-108
For thc daily life of a Jain with all details, sec Acaradinahara by Vardhamāna sūri,
Bombay, 1922, also Indian Antiquary, 1903, P460 ff 38 Seep 107 The Divyāvadāna (XXXII, p. 475) menuons fous kinds of nurses anhadha
tri, mala, stana and hidāpantha, also dvadāna I, V, p 28 31 lãă ibid 89 13, 856 fr, of also Pinda. Ti. 418 ff. cf also Susruta Samhita Satirasthina ch 10,
Su 25, p 234, also ingupiltha Fälubu (333), VI, p 21, Lihta ulura, 100.
