{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe29/sbe29215.htm","path":"hin/sbe29/sbe29215.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe29/sbe29215.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1886]\n1 1-5. On the third (Tithi) of the third bright fortnight after his birth, the father should have the child bathed in the morning, and after sunset he should, holding up his joined hands, towards the auspicious directions (of the horizon), worship the moon.\n2. The mother, having dressed (the son) in a clean (garment), should hand him, with his face turned to the north, to the father.\n3. She then should pass behind (her husband's) back, and should station herself towards the north.\n4. After he has performed worship (to the moon) with the three (verses), 'Thy heart, O thou with the well-parted hair' (MB. I, 5, 10 seqq.), and has handed over the son, turning him towards the north, to his mother, he should pour water out of his joined hands with (the verse), 'What in the moon' (l.l. 13).\n5. (He should do the same) twice silently.\n6 6-12. After a period of ten nights, or of a hundred nights, or of one year after (the child's birth) he should give him a name.\n7. He who is going to perform (that ceremony-the father or a representative of the father), after he\n3, 1. ganan\u00e2g gyautsne trit\u00eeye trit\u00eey\u00e2y\u00e2m pr\u00e2ta sn\u00e2pya kum\u00e2ram astam ite s\u00e2nt\u00e2su dikshu pit\u00e2 kandramasam upatishthet pr\u00e2\u00f1galih. 2. sukin\u00e2kh\u00e2dya m\u00e2t\u00e2 prayakhed udaksirasam. 3. anuprishtham gatvottaratas tishthed. 4. yat te sus\u00eema iti tisribhir upasth\u00e2yoda\u00f1kam m\u00e2tre prad\u00e2ya yad ada ity ap\u00e2m a\u00f1galim avasi\u00f1ked. 5. dvis t\u00fbshn\u00eem. 6. ganan\u00e2d \u00fbrdhvam dasar\u00e2tr\u00e2k khatar\u00e2tr\u00e2t samvatsar\u00e2d v\u00e2 n\u00e2ma kury\u00e2t. 7. sn\u00e2pya kum\u00e2ram karishyata upavishtasya sukin\u00e2kh\u00e2dya m\u00e2t\u00e2 prayakhed udaksirasam.\nhas had the boy bathed, should sit down, and the mother, having dressed him in a clean (garment), should hand him, with his face turned to the north, to the performer (of the ceremony).\n8. She then should walk around behind (his) back and should sit down towards the north.\n9. He should sacrifice and should touch the sense-organs at (the boy's) head with the (Mantra), 'Who art thou?' (MB. I, 5, 14, 15.)\n10. 'N.N.!'\u2014(at the place thus indicated in the Mantra) he should give him a name.\n11. The same (he should pronounce) at the end of the Mantra.\n12. He should tell it to the mother first.\n13 13-15. (The father) when returning from a journey, should grasp (with his two hands) his son round the head, with (the verses), 'From limb by limb' (MB. I, 5, 16-18).\n14. With (the formula), 'With the cattle's' (l.l. 19), he should kiss him.\n15. Silently (he should do the same) with a daughter.\n16 16-33. In the third year the tonsure (of the child's head is performed).\n17. There the barber, warm water, a mirror, or a\n8. anuprishtham gatvottarata upavised. 9. dhutv\u00e2 ko\u093ds\u00eeti tasya mukhy\u00e2n pr\u00e2n\u00e2n abhimrised. 10. as\u00e2v iti n\u00e2ma kury\u00e2t. 11. tad eva mantr\u00e2nte. 12. m\u00e2tre prathamam \u00e2khy\u00e2ya. 13. viproshy\u00e2\u1e45g\u00e2d a\u1e45g\u00e2d iti putrasya m\u00fbrdh\u00e2nam parigrihn\u00eey\u00e2t. 14. pas\u00fbn\u00e2m tvety abhigighret. 15. t\u00fbshn\u00eem striyas. 16. trit\u00eeye varshe kaulan. 17. tatra n\u00e2pita ushnodakam \u00e2darsah kshuro vaudumbarah pi\u00f1g\u00fblya iti dakshinata.\nrazor of Udumbara-wood, and (Darbha)-blades (ate placed) towards the south.\n18. A bull's dung and a mess of boiled rice with sesamum seeds which may be more or less cooked, to the north;\n19. And the mother with the son in her lap.\n20. (The performer of the ceremony), after having sacrificed, should look, with (the Mantra), 'Hither has come' (MB. I, 6, 1), at the barber, fixing his thoughts on (the god) Savitri.\n21. With (the Mantra), 'With warm water' (l.l. 2), he should look at the warm water, fixing his thoughts on V\u00e2yu.\n22. With (the Mantra), 'May the waters' (l.l. 3), he moistens (the boy's hair).\n23. With (the Mantra), 'Vishnu's (l.l. 4), he should look at the mirror or at the razor of Udumbara-wood.\n24. With (the Mantra), 'Herb!' (l.l. 5) he puts seven Darbha-blades, with their points upwards (i.e. towards the boy's head?), into (his hair).\n25. With (the formula), 'Axe!' (l.l. 6) (he presses them down) with the mirror or with the razor of Udumbara-wood.\n26. With (the Mantra), 'With which P\u00fbshan' (l.l. 7), he should move forward (the razor) three\n18. \u00e2naduho gomayah krisarasth\u00e2l\u00eep\u00e2ko vrith\u00e2pakva ity uttarato. 19. m\u00e2t\u00e2 ka kum\u00e2ram \u00e2d\u00e2ya. 20. hutv\u00e2yam ag\u00e2d iti n\u00e2pitam prekshet Savit\u00e2ram dhy\u00e2yann. 21. ushnenety ushnodakam prekshed V\u00e2yum dhy\u00e2yann. 22. \u00e2pa ity untte (a\u1e45te, umde, u\u1e45mte, u\u1e45te the MSS.). 23. Vishnor ity \u00e2darsam prekshetaudumbaram vau. 24. \u093dshadha iti darbhapi\u00f1g\u00fbl\u00ees saptordhv\u00e2gr\u00e2 abhinidh\u00e2ya. 25. svadhita ity \u00e2darsena kshurenaudumbarena v\u00e2. 26. yena P\u00fbsheti dakshinatas trih pr\u00e2\u00f1kam prohet.\ntimes towards the east on the right side (of the boy's hair).\n27. Cutting (the hair) once with a razor of metal he should throw the hair on the bull's dung.\n28. The same rites, beginning from the moistening (of the hair, are repeated) on the left side and on the back side (of the child's head).\n29. Grasping (with his two hands) the boy round his head he should murmur (the verse), 'The threefold age' (l.l. 8).\n30. Walking away (from the fire) in a northern direction he should have the arrangement of (the boy's) hair made according to the custom of his Gotra and of his family.\n31. Let them bury the hair in the forest.\n32. Some throw them on a bunch (of grass or the like).\n33. A cow constitutes the sacrificial fee.\n27. sakrid \u00e2yasena prakhidy\u00e2naduhe gomaye kes\u00e2n kury\u00e2d. 28, undanaprabhrity evam pask\u00e2d uttaratas ka. 29. try\u00e2yusham iti putrasya m\u00fbrdh\u00e2nam parigrihya gaped. 30. udai\u1e45\u1e45 utsripya kusal\u00eek\u00e2rayed yath\u00e2gotrakulakalpam. 31. aranye kes\u00e2n nikhaneyuh. 32. stambe nidadhaty eke. 33. gaur dakshin\u00e2.\n396:1-5 3, 1-5 = Gobhila II, 8, 1-7.\n396:6-12 6-12 = II, 8, 8-17.\n397:13-15 13-15 = II, 8, 21-25.\n397:16-33 16-33 = II, 9.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 1 (SBE29): Kh\u00e2dira-Grihya-S\u00fbtra: II, 3","type":"page"}