Kaushitakagrihyasutra 1.16: atha ṣoḍaśaḥ khaṇḍaḥ
Kauṣītakagṛhyasūtra 1.16
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atha ṣoḍaśaḥ khaṇḍaḥ
1.16.1
atha jātakarma \1\
Now the birth rite.
1.16.2
jātaṃ kumāraṃ trirabhyapānyānuprāṇyāt \2\
He should breathe out and breathe in over the newborn boy three times.
1.16.3
ṛcā prāṇihi \ yajuṣā samanihi \ sāmnodenihi iti jātamabhimantrya \3\
Having addressed the newborn with: ‘Breathe with the Ṛc! Breathe together with the Yajus! Breathe upward with the Sāman!’
1.16.4
sarpirmudhunī dadhyudake ca sannīya \4\
and having mixed together clarified butter, honey, curd, and water,
1.16.5
eṣa eva madhuparkaḥ \5\
this indeed is the honey-mixture (madhuparka),
1.16.6
vrīhi yavau vā sannikṛṣya \6\
or having ground rice and barley,
1.16.7
triḥ prāśayejjātarūpeṇa pra te yacchāmi madhumanmakhāya vedaṃ prasūtaṃ savitrā maghonā \ āyuṣmān gupito devatābhiśśataṃ jīva śarado loka asminnasau \ iti \7\
he should make him taste it three times with a piece of gold: ‘I give you the honeyed Veda for sacrifice, impelled by Savitṛ, the bounteous. Guarded by the deities, long-lived, live a hundred autumns in this world, N.N.!’
1.16.8
nakṣatranāmātra prabrūyāt \8\
He should utter the constellation name here.
1.16.9
nāmāsya dadhāti ghoṣavadādyantarantasthamabhiniṣṭhānāntaṃ dvyakṣaraṃ caturakṣaram \9\
He gives him a name beginning with a sonant, with a semivowel in the middle, ending with a visarga, of two syllables or four syllables,
1.16.10
api vā ṣaḷakṣaram \10\
or even of six syllables.
1.16.11
ayugmavadadantyaṃ kumāryai \11\
For a girl, [a name] with an odd number of syllables, ending in ‘ā’.
1.16.12
kṛtaṃ kuryāt \12\
He should make it a primary derivative (kṛt),
1.16.13
na taddhitāntam \13\
not ending in a secondary suffix (taddhita).
1.16.14
tadasya mātā pitā ca vidyātām \14\
His mother and father should know it.
1.16.15
daśamyāṃ vyāvahārikaṃ brāhmaṇajuṣṭam \15\
On the tenth [day, he gives] the common name, pleasing to the Brahmans.
1.16.16
kṛṣṇasya śuklakṛṣṇāni lohitāni ca romāṇi maṣīṃ kārayitvaitasminneva catuṣṭaye catuḥ prāśayediti māṇḍūkeyaḥ \ bhūrṛgvedaṃ tvayi dadhāmyasau svāhā \ bhuvo yajurvedaṃ tvayi dadhāmyasau svāhā \ svassāmavedaṃ tvayi dadhāmyasau svāhā \ bhūrbhuvasvarvākovākyetihāsapurāṇān sarvān vedāṃstvayi dadhāmyasau svāhā iti \16\
‘Having made ink from the black, white, and red hair of a black [antelope], he should cause him to taste [it] four times in this fourfold mixture,’ says Māṇḍūkeya: ‘Bhūḥ! I place the Ṛgveda in you, N.N., svāhā! Bhuvaḥ! I place the Yajurveda in you, N.N., svāhā! Svaḥ! I place the Sāmaveda in you, N.N., svāhā! Bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ! I place the dialogue hymns, epic legends, ancient lore, and all the Vedas in you, N.N., svāhā!’
1.16.17
medhājananaṃ dakṣiṇe karṇe vāg iti triḥ \17\
The generation of intellect [is performed by whispering] into the right ear ‘Speech!’ three times.
1.16.18
vāgdevī manasā saṃvidānā prāṇena vatsena sahandraproktā juṣatāṃ tvā saumanasāya devīṃ mahīmindrāvāṇī cīssalilā svayaṃbhūḥ iti cānumantrayīta \8\
And he should accompany it with: ‘May the goddess of speech, in harmony with mind, together with her calf, the breath, proclaimed by Indra, accept you for benevolence—the divine, great speech of Indra, flowing, self-existent!’
1.16.9_2
śaṇasūtreṇa vigrathya jātarūpaṃ dakṣiṇe pāṇāvapinahyotthānādūrdhvaṃ daśamyāṃ brāhmaṇebhyo dadyāt \19\
Having tied gold with a hemp thread and fastened it on [the boy's] right hand, after the rising [from childbed], on the tenth [day], he should give it to the brahmins.
1.16.20
amā vā kurvīta \\20\\
Or he may keep it at home.
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