{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe14/sbe1491.htm","path":"hin/sbe14/sbe1491.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe14/sbe1491.htm","text":"1. We will explain the rule for the adoption of a son. 1\n2. Man, formed of virile seed and uterine blood, proceeds from his mother and father (as an effect) from its cause. 2\n3. (Therefore) the father and the mother have power to give, to abandon, or to sell their (son).\n4. But let him not give nor receive (in adoption) an only son;\n5. For he (must remain) to continue the line of the ancestors.\n6. Let a woman neither give nor receive a son except with the permission of her husband.\n7. He who is desirous of adopting (a son) procures two garments, two earrings, and a finger-ring; a spiritual guide who has studied the whole Veda; a layer of Kusa grass and fuel of Pal\u00e2sa wood and so forth. 7\n8. Then he convenes his relations, informs the king (of his intention to adopt) in (their) presence, feeds the (invited) Br\u00e2hmanas in the assembly or in (his) dwelling, and makes them wish him 'an auspicious day,' 'hail,' (and) 'prosperity.' 8\n9. Then he performs the ceremonies which begin with the drawing of the lines on the altar and end with the placing of the water-vessels, goes to the giver (of the child) and should address (this) request (to him), 'Give me (thy) son.'\n10. The other answers, 'I give (him).'\n11. He receives (the child with these words), 'I take thee for the fulfilment of (my) religious duties; I take thee to continue the line (of my ancestors).'\n12. Then he adorns him with the (above-mentioned) two garments, the two earrings, and the finger-ring, performs the rites which begin with the placing of the (pieces of wood called) paridhis (fences round the altar) and end with the Agnimukha, and offers (a portion) of the cooked (food) in the fire. 12\n13. Having recited the Puronuv\u00e2ky\u00e2 (verse), 'He who thinking of thee with a discerning mind,' &c., he offers an oblation, reciting the Y\u00e2gy\u00e2 (verse), 'To which performer of good deeds, thou, O G\u00e2tavedas,' &c. 13\n14. Then he offers (oblations, reciting) the Vy\u00e2hritis;--(the ceremonies) which begin the oblation to Agni Svishtakrit and end with the presentation 14\nof a cow as a fee (to the officiating priest are) known;--\n15. And presents (to the spiritual guide) as a sacrificial fee those two dresses, those two earrings, and that finger-ring (with which he had adorned the child).\n16. If after the performance of these (rites) a legitimate son of his own body is born (to the adopter, then the adopted son) receives a fourth (of the legitimate son's) share. Thus says Baudh\u00e2yana. 16\n334:1 5. This chapter has been translated by Mr. Sutherland, Dattaka M\u00eem\u00e2ms\u00e2 V, 42, and Dattaka Kandrik\u00e2 II, 16, and by myself, journal Bengal Br. Roy. As. Soc., vol. XXXV, p.162.\n334:2-6. Identical with Vasishtha XV, 1-5. The best MS. omits the particle tu, 'but,' in S\u00fbtra 6, while others have it.\n334:7-8. Vasishtha XV, 7. The translation of madhye by 'in their presence' rests on the authority of the Samsk\u00e2rakaustubha 47 b, 11, where it is explained madhye [a] iti bandhusamaksham. The other explanation 'in the middle (of his dwelling),' to which the interpolated text of the Dattaka M\u00eem\u00e2ms\u00e2 and Dattaka Kandrikr\u00e2 refers, is, however, also possible.\n335:8 The ceremony alluded to is the so-called puny\u00e2hav\u00e2kanam.\n335:12 The correct reading is pakv\u00e2g guhoti.\n335:13 The two texts are found Taittir\u00eeya Samhit\u00e2 I, 4, 46, I.\n335:14 Vasishtha XV, 7. The parenthetical phrase occurs frequently in the Dharma-s\u00fbtra;. see e.g. III, 4, 3.\n336:16 Vasishtha XV, 9.","title":"SBE 14: Parisishta: Prasna VII, Adhy\u00e2ya 5","type":"page"}