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Paraskaragrihyasutra 1.15

Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra 1.15

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Sanskrit

1.15.1

atha sīmantonnayanam \1\

Now the Sîmantonnayana (or parting of the pregnant wife's hair).

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

1.15.2

puṃsavanavat \2\

(it is performed) like the Pumsavana;

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

1.15.3

prathamagarbhe māse ṣaṣṭhe 'ṣṭame vā \3\

In her first pregnancy, in the sixth or eighth month.

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

1.15.4

tilamudgamiśraṃ sthālīpākaṃ śrapayitvā prajāpaterhutvā paścādagnerbhadrapīṭha upaviṣṭāyā yugmena saṭālugrapsenaudumbareṇa tribhiśca darbhapiñjūlaistryeṇyā śalalyā vīrataraśaṅkunā pūrṇacātreṇa ca sīmantamūrdhvaṃ vinayati bhūrbhuvaḥ svariti \4\

After he has cooked a mess of sacrificial food, containing sesamum and Mudga beans, and has sacrificed to Pragâpati, he parts for the wife, who is seated to the west of the fire on a soft chair, her hair upwards (i.e. beginning from the front) with a bunch containing an even number of unripe Udumbara fruits, and with three bunches of Darbha grass, with a porcupine's quill that has three white spots, with a stick of Vîratara wood, and with a full spindle. with the words, 'Bhûr bhuvah svah.'

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

1.15.5

pratimahāvyāhṛtibhirvā \5\

Or (he parts the hair once) with each of the (three) Mahâvyâhritis.

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

1.15.6

trivṛtamābadhnāti \ ayamūrjāvato vṛkṣa urjīva phalinī bhaveti \6\

He ties (the Udumbara fruits, &c.) to a string of three twisted threads with (the words), 'Rich in sap is this tree; like the tree, rich in sap, be thou fruitful.'

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

1.15.7

athāha vīṇāgāthinau rājānaṃ saṃgāyetām yo vā 'pyanyo vīratara iti \7\

(The husband) then says to two lute-players, 'Sing ye the king, or if anybody else is still more valiant.'

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

1.15.8

niyuktāmapyeke gāthāmupodāharanti \ soma eva no rājemā mānuṣīḥ prajāḥ \ avimuktacakra āsīraṃstīre tubhyamasāviti yāṃ nadīmupā vasitā bhavati tasyā nāma gṛhṇāti \8\

Here some also prescribe a certain stanza (to be sung by the lute-players): 'Soma alone is our king. May these human tribes dwell on thy banks, O (river) whose dominion is unbroken, N.N.!'—here he names the name of the river near which they dwell.

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

1.15.9

tato brāhmaṇabhojanam \9\ \\15\\

Then (follows) feeding of the Brâhmanas.

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

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