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the fire, facing the east, combs his hair silently with a porcupine's quill that has three white spots, with three Darbha blades, and with a bunch of unripe Udumbara fruits; and he arranges the locks in the fashion of his ancestral Rishis,
7. Or according to their family custom.
8. The ceremonies beginning with the pouring together of (warm and cold water and ending with the putting down of the hair are the same (as above; comp. M. II, 14, 11).
9. He puts down the razor after having washed it off.
10. The ceremony is (repeated) three days with the (same razor). (Then) the rite is finished.
11. (The father) gives an optional gift (to the Brâhmana who has assisted).
12. The Godâna (or the ceremony of shaving the beard, is performed) in the sixteenth year, in exactly the same way or optionally under another constellation.
13. Or he may perform the Godâna sacred to Agni.
14. Some prescribe the keeping of a vow through one year in connection with the Godâna.
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8. See IV, 10, 5-8.
10. I translate as if the words tena tryaham and karmanivrittih formed two Satras.
13. Having performed the same rites as at the opening of the study of the Âgneya-kânda, he performs an Upasthâna to the deities as taught with regard to the Sukriyavrata.' Haradatta.—'After the ceremonies down to the Âgyabhagas have been performed, one chief oblation of is offered with the formula, “To Agni, the Rishi of the Kânda, svâhâ !". Sudarsanarya.
14. Comp. the statements given in the note on Gobhila III, I, I.
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