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a fire that has been kindled by attrition, and inserts that into the right nostril of the wife) whose head rests on the widely spread root (of an Udumbara tree ?).
7. If she miscarries, he should three times stroke (her body), from the navel upwards, with her wet hand, with the formula), 'Thitherwards, not hitherwards, may Tvashtri bind thee in his bonds. Making (the mother) enter upon the seasons, live ten months (in thy mother's womb); do not bring death to men.'
8. When her confinement has come, he performs the kshipraprasavana (i. e. the ceremony for accelerating the confinement). Having placed a waterpot near her head and a Türyantf plant near her feet, he touches her belly.
Patala 1, SECTION 3. 1. “As the wind blows, as the ocean waves, thus may the embryo move ; may it come forth together with the after-birth'--with (this verse) he strokes (her body) from above downwards.
2. When the child is born, he lays an axe on a stone, and a piece of gold on that axe; after he has turned these things upside down (so that the stone lies uppermost), he holds the boy over them with (the two verses),
Be a stone, be an axe, be insuperable gold. Thou indeed art the Veda called son ; so live a hundred autumns.
8. Comp. Apastamba-Gríhya VI, 14, 14; Âsvalâyana II, 8, 14; IV, 4, 8.
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