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GRIHYA-SOTRA OF GOBHILA.
17. Then the barber) with the razor of metal cuts the hair and throws (the cut off hair ends) on the bull's dung.
18. In the same way (after the same rites have been performed), he cuts the patch of hair on the back-side;
19. And that on the left side.
20. He should repeat (when going to cut the hair on the back-side, and then again on the left side, the rites stated above), beginning from the moistening of the hair (Sätra 12).
21. Grasping with his two hands (the boy) round his head he should murmur (the verse), 'The threefold age of Gamadagni' (MB. I, 6, 8).
22. In the same way (the rites are performed) for a girl,
23. (But) silently.
24. The sacrifice, however, (is performed) with the Mantra.
25. Walking away from the fire in a northerly direction they have the arrangement of (the boy's) hair made according to the custom of his Gotra and of his family.
26. They throw the hair on the bull's dung (mentioned above), take it to the forest, and bury it.
27. Some throw them on a bunch (of grass or the like).
20. Thus on the back-side seven Darbha blades are put into the hair, and on the left side seven. This makes, together with the seven blades put into the hair on the right side (Satra 14), twentyone, the number stated in Sätra 4.
24. In the description of the Kadakarana given in this chapter no sacrifice is mentioned. See, however, I, 9, 28.
25. Gribya-samgraha II, 40.
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