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Paraskaragrihyasutra 1.14

Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra 1.14

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Sanskrit

1.14.1

atha puṃsavanam \1\

Now the Pumsavana (i.e. the ceremony to secure the birth of a male child),

Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

1.14.2

purā spandata iti māse dvitīye tṛtīye vā \2\

Before (the child in his mother's womb) moves, in the second or third month (of pregnancy).

Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

1.14.3

yadahaḥ puṃsā nakṣatreṇa candramā yujyeta tadaharupavāsyāplāvyāhate vāsasī paridhāpya nyagrodhāvarohāñchuṅgām̐śca niśāyāmudapeṣaṃ piṣṭvā pūrvavadāsecanaṃ hiraṇyagarbho 'dbhyaḥ saṃbhṛta ityetābhyām \3\

On a day on which the moon stands in conjunction with a Nakshatra (that has a name) of masculine gender, on that day, after having caused (his wife) to fast, to bathe, and to put on two garments which have not yet been washed, and after having in the night-time crushed in water descending roots and shoots of a Nyagrodha tree, he inserts (that into her right nostril) as above, with the two (verses), 'The gold-child' (Vâg. Samh. XIII, 4) and 'Formed of water' (ibid. XXXI, 17);

Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

1.14.4

kuśakaṇṭakaṃ somāṃśu caike \4\

A Kusa needle and a Soma stalk, according to some (teachers).

Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

1.14.5

kūrmapittaṃ copasthe kṛtvā sa yadi kāmayeta vīryavāntsyā diti vikṛtyainamabhimantrayate suparṇo 'sīti prāgviṣṇukramebhyaḥ \5\ \\14\\

And he puts gall of a tortoise on her lap.
If he desires; 'May (the son) become valiant,' he recites over him (i.e. over the embryo), modifying the rite (?), 'The Suparna art thou' (Vâg. Samh. XII, 4), (the Yagus) before (the formulas called) 'steps of Vishnu.'

Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

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