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ready' (MB. I, 4, 6), and with that, 'Give conception, Siniväll' (1. 1. 7).
10. When those two verses are finished, they cohabit.
KÂNDIKÂ 6. 1. The beginning of the third month of pregnancy is the time for the Pumsavana (i. e. the ceremony to secure the birth of a son).
2. In the morning, after she has been washed, sitting on northward-pointed Darbha grass, (all over her body) including her head, she sits down to the west of the fire on northward-pointed Darbha grass, facing the east.
3. Her husband, standing behind her, should grasp down with his right hand over her right shoulder, and should touch the uncovered place of her navel with the verse, The two men, Mitra and Varuna' (MB. I, 4, 8).
4. Then they may do what they like.
5. Then afterwards (the following ceremony should be performed).
6. In a north-easterly direction, having bought for three times seven barley corns or beans a Nyagrodha shoot which has fruits on both sides, which is not dry and not touched by worms, he should set that up.
7. (He buys it with the Mantras):
6, 1 seq. The Pumsa vana. Khâdira-Grihya II, 2, 17 seq. On â disa dese the commentary says, adisadese adisamîpapradese prathame tritîyabhâge, ity etat. adimadesa iti pâthe vyakta evârthah. To me it seems probable that adimade se is the true reading.
7. The first Mantra consists of seven sections; with each of
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