{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe30/sbe30078.htm","path":"hin/sbe30/sbe30078.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe30/sbe30078.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1892]\n1. In the third year (he performs) the K\u00fbd\u00e2karman (i.e. the tonsure of the child's head).\n2. In the fortnight (&c., as in the preceding section, S\u00fbtra 2, down to): 'Hail! Good luck!' The boy sits down to the west of the fire, facing the east;\n3. 3 To the north (of the fire) his mother or a student (brahmak\u00e2rin) holds a lump of bull's dung;\n4. Therewith he (or she) receives the (cut-off) hair.\n5. He then pours cold and warm water together.\n6. 6 Having poured warm water into cold water he moistens the hair near the right ear with (the formula), 'May the waters moisten thee for life' (Taitt. Samh. I, 2, I, 1).\n7. 7 With (the formula), 'Herb, protect him!' (Taitt. Samh., loc. cit.) he puts an herb, with its point upwards, into (the hair).\n8. With (the formula), 'Axe, do no harm to him!' (Taitt. Samh., loc. cit.) he touches (that herb) with the razor.\n9. With (the words), 'Heard by the gods, I shave that (hair)' (Taitt. Samh., loc. cit.) he shaves him.\n10. In the same way (he moistens, &c.) the other (sides of his head) from left to right.\n11. Behind with (the Mantra), '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); make that he be united with vigour, with wealth, with glory.'\nOn the left side with (the Mantra), '(The razor) with which P\u00fbshan has shaven (the beard) of Brihaspati, of Agni, of Indra, for the sake of long life, with that I shave thy (head), N.N.!'\nBefore with (the Mantra), 'That he may long live in joy, and may long see the sun.'\n12. After the hair has been shaven, they arrange the locks (which are left over), according to custom or according to what family he belongs.\n13. 13 A person who is kindly disposed towards him, gathers the (cut-off) hair and buries it in a cow-stable, or near an Udumbara tree, or in a clump of Darbha grass, with (the Mantra), 'Where P\u00fbshan, Brihaspati, Savitri, Soma, Agni (dwell), they have in many ways searched where they should depose it, between heaven and earth, the waters and heaven.'\n14. 14 He makes a gift to a Br\u00e2hmana according to his liberality.\n15. To the barber (he gives) boiled rice with butter.\n16. In the same way the God\u00e2nakarman (or the ceremony of shaving the beard) is performed in the sixteenth year.\n17. He has him shaven including the top-lock.\n18. Some declare that he leaves there the top-lock.\n19. 19 Or he performs the God\u00e2na sacred to Agni.\n20. He gives a cow to his Guru.\nEnd of the First Patala.\n217:3 6, 3, 4. Some consider, according to M\u00e2tridatta, these two S\u00fbtras as one. He says (p. 149 of Dr. Kirste's edition), uttarata ity etad\u00e2di pratigrihn\u00e2t\u00eety etadantam v\u00e2 s\u00fbtram, dh\u00e2rayams ten\u00e2sya kes\u00e2n pratipathitavyam (read, pratigrihn\u00e2t\u00eeti pathitavyam).\n217:6 As to dakshinam god\u00e2nam unatti, comp. the note on P\u00e2raskara II, 1, 9. Comp. also above, I, 3, 9, 12.\n217:7 7 seq. See above, I, 3, 9, 13 seq.\n218:13 Comp. I, 3, 9, 18.\n218:14 Literally, according to his faith (yath\u00e2sraddham).\n218:19 Agnigod\u00e2no v\u00e2 kum\u00e2ro bhavati upasam\u00e2dh\u00e2n\u00e2di puny\u00e2hav\u00e2kan\u00e2ntam agnik\u00e2ryam iva v\u00e2 bhavat\u00eety arthah. M\u00e2tridatta. Comp., however, the note on \u00c2pastamba-Grihya VI, 16, 13.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30): Grihya S\u00fbtra of Hiranyakesin: II, 1, 6","type":"page"}