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and after having sacrificed, he should stand behind her and should part her hair once with a well-proportioned (?) branch of a tree, on which there are fruits, (and) with a porcupine's quill that has three white spots, with (the verse), 'Rich in sap is this tree' (MB. I, 5, 1).
26. While she looks at a mess of boiled rice with sesamum seeds, covered with ghee, he should ask her, 'What dost thou see?'
27. He should make her reply, 'Offspring!'
28. When the child is appearing, the sacrifice for the woman in labour (is to be performed)—
29. With the two verses, 'She who athwart' (MB. I, 5, 6 seq.).
30. He should give a name to the child, 'N. N.!' 31. That (is his) secret (name).
32. Before the navel-string is cut off and the breast is given (to the child, the father) should have rice and barley grains pounded in the way prescribed for the Nyagrodha-shoot (see Sûtra 22).
33. He should take thereof with his (right) thumb and fourth finger and give it to the child to eat, with (the formula), 'This order' (MB. I, 5, 8).
34. And butter with (the verse), 'May intelligence to thee' (MB. I, 5, 9).
26. krisarasthâlîpâkam uttaraghritam aveksha[n]tîm prikkhet kim pasyasîti. 27. pragâm iti vâkayet. 28. pratishthite vastau soshyantîhomah. 29. yâ tiraskîti dvâbhyâm. 30. asâv iti nâma dadhyât. 31. tad guhyam. 32. prâǹ nâbhikrintanât stanadânâk ka vrîhiyavau peshayek khungâvritâ. 33. ngush/henânâmikayâ kâdâya kumâram prâsayed iyam âgneti. 34. sarpis ka medhân
ta iti.
28-34 II, 7, 13 seqq.
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