{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29174.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29174.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29174.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1. When (the son) is one year old, the K\u00fbd\u00e2karana (i.e. the tonsure of his head, should be performed),\n2. Or before the lapse of the third (year).\n3. When he is sixteen years old, the Kes\u00e2nta (i.e. the shaving of his beard, is to be done),\n4. Or, according as it is considered auspicious by all (the different families).\n5. After food has been distributed to the Br\u00e2hmanas, the mother takes the boy, bathes him, puts on him an under and an upper garment which have not yet been washed, and putting him on her lap, she sits down to the west of the fire.\n6. The father taking hold (of his wife) sacrifices \u00c2gya oblations, and after he has partaken of the (sacrificial) food, he pours warm water into cold water with (the words), 'With warm water come hither, V\u00e2yu! Aditi, cut the hair.'\n7. At the Kes\u00e2nta ceremony (S\u00fbtra 3), 'hair and beard' (instead of 'hair').\n8. He throws a piece of fresh butter, or of ghee, or some curds into it (i.e. into the water, Sara 6).\n9 9. Taking some (water) he moistens the hair near the right ear with (the formula), 'On the impulse of Savitri may the divine waters moisten\nthy body in order that long life and splendour may be thine.'\n10 10. Having unravelled (the hair) with a porcupine's quill that has three white spots, he puts three young Kusa shoots into it with (the formula), 'Herb' (V\u00e2g. Samh. IV, 1).\n11 11. Taking up a copper razor with (the formula), 'Friendly by name' (V\u00e2g. Samh. III, 63 a), he cuts (the hair) with (the formula), 'I cut off' (ibid. 63b), (and with the formula,) 'The razor with which Savitri, the knowing one, has shaven (the beard) of king Soma and Varuna, with that, ye Br\u00e2hmanas, shave his (head), in order that he may be blessed with long life and may reach old age.'\n12. Cutting off (the Kusa shoots) together with the hair, he throws them on a lump of bull's dung which they keep northwards of the fire.\n13. In the same way two other times silently.\n14. The moistening and the other rites are repeated with the two other (tufts of hair).\n15. Behind with (the verse), 'The threefold age' (V\u00e2g. Samh. III, 62).\n16 16. Then on the left side with (the verse), 'With that prayer by which mayst thou, a mighty one, go to heaven, and long mayst thou see the sun: with that prayer I shave thee for the sake of life, of existence, of glory, of welfare.'\n17. Three times he shaves round the head, from left to right;\n18. Including the face, at the Kes\u00e2nta ceremony.\n19 19. (He recites the verse,) 'When the shaver shaves his hair with the razor, the wounding, the well-shaped, purify his head, but do not take away his life.'\n20 20. He adds (the word), 'his face' at the Kes\u00e2nta ceremony.\n21. With that water (S\u00fbtras 6, 8) he moistens his head, and gives the razor to the barber with (the words), 'Without wounding him, shave him.'\n22. The locks of hair which are left over, are to be arranged as it is considered auspicious (in his family).\n23 23. Having put away that lump of dung with the hair so that it is hidden in a cow-stable, or in a small pond, or in the vicinity of water; he gives an optional gift to the teacher;\n24. A cow at the Kes\u00e2nta ceremony.\n25. After the Kes\u00e2nta has been performed, (the youth) should observe chastity and should not be shaven through one year, or twelve nights, or six nights, or at least three nights.\n301:1 1, 6. I see no reason why we should not take Aditi for the name of the goddess. Comp. Atharva-veda VI, 68, 2: Aditih smasru vapatu. \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya I, 17, 7. Stenzler translates: Ungebundener, die Haare schneide.\n301:9 The text has, dakshinam god\u00e2nam undati. The commentary on K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana V, 2, 14 explains dakshina god\u00e2na: dakshinakarnasam\u00eepavartinam sirahpradesam. S\u00e2yana on Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana III, 1, 2, 4 (p. 323, ed. Weber): god\u00e2nam n\u00e2ma karnasyopari pradesah. The Mantra reoccurs in K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana, loc. cit.\u2014Savitr\u00e2 p. 302 pras\u00fbt\u00e2h should not be translated as Prof. Stenzler does: von Sav. erzeugt, but: von Say. angetrieben.\n302:10 This S\u00fbtra is identical with K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana-Sraut. V, 2, 15.\n302:11 Compare K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana l.l. \u00a7 17. The Mantra, V\u00e2g. Samh. III, 63 b, is that given by K\u00e2ty\u00e2yana, the following one is that which the other Grihya texts prescribe.\n302:16 See the various readings of the Mantra given by Professor Stenzler, p. 53 of his critical annotations, and compare \u00c2sval\u00e2yana-Grihya I, 17, 13.\n303:19 \u00c2sval\u00e2yana l.l. \u00a7 16; Atharva-veda VIII, 2, 17.\n303:20 He repeats the Mantra, given in S\u00fbtra 19, in this form: When the shaver shaves his hair and his face,' &c.\n303:23 See above, S\u00fbtra 12.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): P\u00e2raskara-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: II, 1","type":"page"}