Agniveshyagrihyasutra 2.1.2
Āgniveśyagṛhyasūtra 2.1.2
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2.1.2.1
athātaḥ sīmantonnayanam \
Now therefore the parting of the hair (sīmantonnayana).
2.1.2.2
prathamagarbhāyāścaturthe māsyāpūryamāṇapakṣe puṇye nakṣatre agnimupasamādhāya vyāhṛtiparyantaṃ kṛtvā dhātā dadātu no rayim iti catasro dhātrīrjuhoti \
For a woman pregnant for the first time, in the fourth month, in the waxing fortnight, under an auspicious lunar mansion, having set up the fire, having performed [the ritual acts] up to the mystic utterances, he offers four Dhātṛ oblations with, 'May Dhātṛ give us wealth.'
2.1.2.3
imaṃ me varuṇa tatvāyāmi tvannao agne sa tvanno agne tvamagne ayāsi prajāpate yadasya karmaṇo 'tyarīricam iti ca \
And with, 'Hear this prayer of mine, O Varuṇa,' 'For that I go to you,' 'You, O Agni, to us,' 'So you, O Agni, to us,' 'You, O Agni, are ayās,' 'O Prajāpati, what [in excess] of this ritual I have made redundant.'
2.1.2.4
atraike jayābhyātānān rāṣṭrabhṛta ityupajuhvati \
Here some offer as secondary oblations the Jaya, Abhyātāna, and Rāṣṭrabhṛt offerings.
2.1.2.5
yathā purastād brāhmaṇānannena pariviṣya puṇyāhaṃ svastyayanamṛddhimiti vācayitvā snātāṃ prayatavastrāmalaṅkṛtāṃ brāhmanasambhāṣāmapareṇāgniṃ maṇḍalākāre prāṅmukhamupaveśya traiṇyā śalalyā śalāludrapsamupasaṃgṛhya purastāt pratyaṅ tiṣṭhan vyāhṛtibhī rākāmahaṃ yāste rāka iti dvābhyāmūrdhvaṃ sīmantamunnīyābhimantrayate soma eva no rājetyāhurbrāhmaṇīḥ prajāḥ \
As previously, having served Brahmins with food, having made them recite, 'An auspicious day! Good fortune! Prosperity!', having seated [the wife] to the west of the fire in a circular shape facing east—she being bathed, dressed in clean garments, adorned, and having spoken with Brahmins—having taken up a quill of a three-striped porcupine along with a twig of fragrant wood, standing in front facing west, parting the hair upwards with the mystic utterances and with the two [verses], 'Rākā I [invoke],' 'Those, O Rākā, which are your [favors],' he addresses her with the formula: '"Soma alone is our king," say the Brahmin subjects,
2.1.2.6
vivṛttacakrā āsīnāstīre tubhyaṃ gaṅge \
sitting with turned chariot-wheels on your bank, O Gaṅgā!
2.1.2.7
viśvā uta tvayā vayaṃ dhārā udanyā iva \
And through you may we cross beyond all haters
2.1.2.8
atigāhemahi dviṣaḥ iti \\2\\
like torrents of water.'
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- Bhāradvājaśrautasūtra — Sanskrit