{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe30/sbe30109.htm","path":"hin/sbe30/sbe30109.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe30/sbe30109.htm","text":"The Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30), by Hermann Oldenberg, [1892]\n1. In the sixth month after the child's birth he serves food to Br\u00e2hmanas and causes them to pronounce auspicious wishes; then he should pour together curds, honey, ghee, and boiled rice, and should give (the mixture) to the boy to eat, with the next (four) Mantras (II, 14, 7-10);\n2. (He should feed him) with partridge, according to some (teachers).\n3. In the third year after his birth the Kaula (or tonsure is performed) under (the Nakshatra of) the two Punarvasus.\n4. 4 Br\u00e2hmanas are entertained with food as at the initiation (Upanayana).\n5. 5 The putting (of wood) on the fire, &c. (is performed) as at the S\u00eemantonnayana.\n6. 6 He makes (the boy) sit down to the west of\nthe 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,\n7. Or according to their family custom.\n8. 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).\n9. He puts down the razor after having washed it off.\n10. 10 The ceremony is (repeated) three days with the (same razor). (Then) the rite is finished.\n11. (The father) gives an optional gift (to the Br\u00e2hmana who has assisted).\n12. The God\u00e2na (or the ceremony of shaving the beard, is performed) in the sixteenth year, in exactly the same way or optionally under another constellation.\n13. 13 Or he may perform the God\u00e2na sacred to Agni.\n14. 14 Some prescribe the keeping of a vow through one year in connection with the God\u00e2na.\n15. The difference (between the Kaula and the God\u00e2na) is that (at the God\u00e2na) the whole hair is shaven (without leaving the locks).\n16. 16 According to the followers of the S\u00e2ma-veda he should 'touch water.'\n283:4 16, 4. See above, IV, 10, 5.\n283:5 See above, VI, 14. 2.\n283:6 Comp. VI, 14, 3.\n284:8 See IV, 10, 5-8.\n284:10 I translate as if the words tena tryaham and karmanivrittih formed two S\u00fbtras.\n284:13 'Having performed the same rites as at the opening of the study of the \u00c2gneya-k\u00e2nda, he performs an Upasth\u00e2na to the deities as taught with regard to the Sukriyavrata.' Haradatta.\u2014'After the ceremonies down to the \u00c2gyabh\u00e2gas have been performed, one chief oblation of \u00c2gya is offered with the formula, \"To Agni, the Rishi of the K\u00e2nda, sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\"' Sudarsan\u00e2rya.\n284:14 Comp. the statements given in the note on Gobhila III,\n285:16 The udakopasparsana according to the rite of the S\u00e2mavedins is described by Gobhila, I, 2, 5 seqq.","title":"Grihya Sutras, Part 2 (SBE30): Grihya-S\u00fbtra of \u00c2pastamba: 6, 16","type":"page"}