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I PRASNA, 2 PATALA, 7 SECTION, 21. 157 rejoice a hundred autumns; may we be glad a hundred autumns; may we prosper a hundred autumns; may we hear a hundred autumns; may we speak a hundred autumns; may we live undecaying a hundred autumns; and may we long see the sun.
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14. May Agni further give thee life. May Agni further grant thee bliss. May Indra with the Maruts here give (that) to thee; may the sun with the Vasus give (it) to thee—with (this verse the teacher) gives him a staff, and then hands over to him a bowl (for collecting alms).
15. Then he says to him, 'Go out for alms.'
16. Let him beg of his mother first;
17. Then (let him beg) in other houses where they are kindly disposed towards him.
18. He brings (the food which he has received) to his Guru (i. e. to the teacher), and announces it to him by saying, '(These are) the alms.'
19. (The teacher accepts it) with the words, 'Good alms they are.'
20. May all gods bless thee whose first garment we accept. May after thee, the prosperous one, the well-born, many brothers and friends be born '--with (this verse the teacher) takes (for himself) the former garment (of the student).
21. When the food (with which the Brahmanas shall be entertained) is ready, (the student) takes some portion of boiled rice, cakes, and flour, mixes
14. Sânkhâyana II, 6, 2, &c.
16 seq. Sankhâyana II, 6, 4 seq.; Âpastamba I, 3, 28 seq. 17. The commentary explains râtikuleshu by gñâtiprabhritishu;-comp. yo sya râtir bhavati, I, 3, 9, 18.
20. See above, I, 1, 4, 2, and comp. Atharva-veda II, 13, 5.
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