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GRIHYA-SUTRA OF APASTAMBA.
with three Darbha blades, and with a bunch of unripe Udumbara fruits, with the Vyâhritis or with the two next (verses, II, 11, 9. 10).
4. He says to two lute-players, Sing!'
5. Of the next two (verses, II, II, II. 12) the first (is to be sung on this occasion) among the (people of the) Sâlvas.
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6. The second (is to be used) for Brâhmanas; and the river near which they dwell is to be named.
7. He ties barley-grains with young shoots (to the head of the wife); then she keeps silence until the stars appear.
8. When the stars have appeared, he goes (with his wife) towards the east or north, touches a calf, and murmurs the Vyâhritis; then she breaks her silence.
9. The Pumsavana (i.e. the ceremony to secure the birth of a male child) is performed when the pregnancy has become visible, under the constellation Tishya.
10. From a branch of a Nyagrodha tree, which points eastward or northward, he takes a shoot with two (fruits that look like) testicles. The putting (of wood) on the fire, &c., is performed as at the Simantonnayana (Sutra 2).
11. He causes a girl who has not yet attained maturity to pound (the Nyagrodha shoot) on an upper mill-stone with another upper mill-stone, and to pour water on it; then he makes his wife lie
6. Âsvalâyana I, 14, 7; Pâraskara I, 15, 8. Comp. Zeitschrift der D. M. Gesellschaft, XXXIX, 88.
7, 8. Sudarsanârya mentions that instead of the singular, 'She keeps silence, she breaks her silence,' some read the dual, so that the husband and his wife are referred to.
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