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Breathe together with the Yajus! Breathe upward with the Sāman!’ > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.16.4) sarpirmudhunī dadhyudake ca sannīya \4\ > and having mixed together clarified butter, honey, curd, and water, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.16.5) eṣa eva madhuparkaḥ \5\ > this indeed is the honey-mixture (madhuparka), > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.16.6) vrīhi yavau vā sannikṛṣya \6\ > or having ground rice and barley, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.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.!’ > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.16.8) nakṣatranāmātra prabrūyāt \8\ > He should utter the constellation name here. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.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, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.16.10) api vā ṣaḷakṣaram \10\ > or even of six syllables. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.16.11) ayugmavadadantyaṃ kumāryai \11\ > For a girl, \[a name\] with an odd number of syllables, ending in ‘ā’. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.16.12) kṛtaṃ kuryāt \12\ > He should make it a primary derivative (kṛt), > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.16.13) na taddhitāntam \13\ > not ending in a secondary suffix (taddhita). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.16.14) tadasya mātā pitā ca vidyātām \14\ > His mother and father should know it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.16.15) daśamyāṃ vyāvahārikaṃ brāhmaṇajuṣṭam \15\ > On the tenth \[day, he gives\] the common name, pleasing to the Brahmans. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.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!’ > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.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!’ > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16.9\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.16.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.16.20) amā vā kurvīta \\20\\ > Or he may keep it at home. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka~en-mt.1.16.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Śāṅkhāyanagṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.sankhayana.1.24.4-1cd) — Śāṅkhāyana, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausitaka.1.16) · Pramāṇa