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# Paraskaragrihyasutra 1.16

Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra 1.16

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.16.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.1)

soṣyantīmadbhirabhyukṣati \ ejatu daśamāsya iti prāgyasyai ta iti \1\

> Soshyantîm adbhir abhyukshaty egatu dasamâsya iti (Vâg. Samh. VIII, 28) prâg yasyai to iti (ibid. 29).  
> 2 Athâvarâvapatanam, avaitu prisni sevalam sune garâyv attave, naiva mâmsena pîvari na kasmims kanâyatam ava garâyu padyatâm iti.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.2)

athāvarāvapatanam \ avaitu pṛśniśevalaṃ śunejarāyvattave \ naiva māṃsena pīvasi na kasmiṃścanāyatanamavajarāyupadyatāmiti \2\

### [1.16.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.3)

jātasya kumārasyācchinnāyāṃ nāḍyāṃ medhājananāyuṣye karoti \3\

> When the boy is born, he performs for him, before the navel-string is cut off, the medhâganana (production of intelligence) and the âyushya (rite for procuring long life).  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.4)

anāmikayā suvarṇāntarhitayā madhughṛte prājayati ghṛtaṃ vā bhūstvayi dadhāmi bhuvastvayi dadhāmi svastvayi dadhāmi bhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥ sarvaṃ tvayi dadhāmīti \4\

> (The medhâganana is performed in the following way:) With his fourth finger and with (an instrument of) gold he gives (to the child) honey and ghee, or ghee (alone), to eat with (the formulas), 'Bhûh I put into thee; bhuvah I put into thee; svah I put into thee. Bhûr bhuvah svah everything I put into thee.'  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.5)

athāsyāyuṣyaṃ karoti \5\

> He then performs the âyushya.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.6)

nābhyāṃ dakṣiṇe vā karṇe japati agnirāyuṣmāntsa vanaspatibhirāyuṣmāṃstena tvā ' 'yuṣā ' 'yuṣmantaṃ karomi \ soma āyuṣmāntsa oṣadhībhirāyuṣmāṃstenatvā ' 'yuṣā ' 'yuṣmantaṃ karomi \ brahmāyuṣmattadbrāhmaṇairāyuṣmattena tvā ' 'yuṣā ' 'yuṣmantaṃ karomi \ devā āyuṣmantarate 'mṛtenāyuṣmantastena tvā ' 'yuṣā ' 'yuṣmantaṃ karomi \ ṛṣaya āyuṣmantaste vratairāyuṣmantastena tvā ' 'yuṣā ' 'yuṣmantaṃ karomi \ pitara āyuṣmantaste svadhābhirāyuṣmantastena tvā ' 'yuṣā ' 'yuṣmantaṃ karomi \ yajña āyuṣmāntsa dakṣiṇābhirāyuṣmāṃstena tvā ' 'yuṣā ' 'yuṣmantaṃ karomi \ samudra āyuṣmāntsa sravantībhirāyuṣmāṃstena tvā ' 'yuṣā ' 'yuṣmantaṃ karomīti \6\

> Near his navel or his right ear he murmurs: 'Agni is long-lived; through the trees he is long-lived. By that long life I make thee long-lived.  
> 'Soma is long-lived; through the herbs he is, &c.  
> 'The Brahman is long-lived; through the Brâhmanas it is, &c.  
> 'The gods are long-lived; through ambrosia (amrita) they are, &c.  
> 'The Rishis are long-lived; through their observances they are, &c.  
> 'The Fathers are long-lived; through the Svadhâ oblations (or oblations made to the Manes) they are, &c.  
> 'Sacrifice is long-lived; through sacrificial fee it is, &c.  
> 'The ocean is long-lived; through the rivers it is long-lived. By that long life I make thee long-lived;'  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.7)

tristristryāyuṣamiti ca \7\

> And three times the verse, 'The threefold age' (Vâg. Samh. III, 62).  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.8)

sa yadi kāmayeta sarvamāyuriyāditi vātsapreṇainamabhimṛśet \8\

> If he desires, 'May he live his full term of life,' he should touch him with the Vâtsapra hymn (Vâg. Samh. XII, 18-29).  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.9)

divasparītyetasyānuvākasyottamāmṛcaṃ pariśinaṣṭi \9\

> From the Anuvâka beginning with 'From heaven' (XII, 18 seqq.) he omits the last Rik (XII, 29).  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.10)

pratidiśaṃ pañca barāhmaṇānavasthāpya brūyādimamanuprāṇiteti \10\

> Having placed five Brâhmanas towards the (five) regions, he should say to them, 'Breathe ye upon this (child).'  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.11)

pūrvo brūyātprāṇeti \11\

> The (Brâhmana placed) to the east should say, Up-breathing!  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.12)

vyānetidakṣiṇaḥ \12\

> The one to the south, 'Back-breathing!'  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.13)

apānetyaparaḥ \13\

> The one to the west, 'Down-breathing!'  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.14)

udānetyuttaraḥ \14\

> The one to the north, 'Out-breathing!'  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.15)

samāneti pañcama upariṣṭādavekṣamāṇo brūyāt \15\

> The fifth one, looking upwards, should say, 'On-breathing!'  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.16)

svayam vā kuryādanuparikrāmamavidyamāneṣu \16\

> Or (the father) may do that himself, going round (his child), if he can find no (Brâhmanas).  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.17)

sa yasmindeśe jāto bhavati tamabhimantrayate veda te bhūmi hṛdayaṃ divi candramasi śritam \ vedāhaṃ tanmāṃ tadvidyātpaśyema śaradaḥ śataṃ jīvema śaradaḥ śataṃ śṛṇuyāma śaradaḥ śatamiti \17\

> He recites over the place at which (the child) is born: 'I know, O earth, thy heart that dwells in heaven, in the moon. That I know; may it know me. May we see a hundred autumns; may we live a hundred autumns; may we hear a hundred autumns.'  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.18)

athainamabhimṛśatyaśmā bhava paraśurbhava hiraṇyamasrutaṃ bhava \ ātmā vai putranāmā 'si sa jīva śaradaḥ śatamiti \18\

> He then touches him with (the verse), 'Be a stone, be an axe, be imperishable gold. Thou indeed art the Self called son; thus live a hundred autumns.'  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.19)

athāsya mātaramabhimantrayata iḍāsi maitrāvaruṇī vīre vīramajījanathāḥ \ sā tvaṃ vīravatī bhava yā 'smānvīravato 'karaditi \19\

> He then recites over his mother (the verse), 'Thou art Idâ, the daughter of Mitra and Varuna; thou strong woman hast born a strong son. Be thou blessed with strong children, thou who hast blessed us with a strong son.'  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.20)

athāsyai dakṣiṇaṃ stanaṃ prakṣālya prayacchatīmaṃ stanamiti \20\

> He then washes her right breast, and gives it to the child with (the verse), 'This breast' (Vâg. Samh. XVII, 87);  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.21)

yaste stana ityuttarametābhyām \21\

> The left (breast) with (the verse), 'Thy breast which' (ibid. XXXVIII, 5)—with these two (verses).  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.22)

udapātraṃ śirasto nidadhātyāpo deveṣu jāgratha yathā deveṣu jāgratha \ evamasyāṃ sūtikāyāṃsaputrikāyāṃ jāgratheti \22\

> He puts down a pot of water near her head with (the verse), 'O waters, you watch with the gods. As you watch with the gods, thus watch over this mother who is confined, and her child.'  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.23)

dvāradeśe sūtikāgnimupasamādhāyotthānātsaṃdhivelayoḥ phalīkaraṇamiśrānsarṣapānagnāvāvapati śaṇḍāmarkkā upavīraḥ śauṇḍikeya ulūkhalaḥ \ malimluco droṇāsaścyavano naśyatāditaḥ svāhā \ ālikhannanimiṣaḥ kiṃvadanta upaśrutirharyakṣaḥ kumbhī śatruḥ pātrapāṇirnṛmaṇirhantrīmukhaḥ sarṣapāruṇaścyavano naśyatāditaḥ svāheti \23\

> Having established near the door the fire that has been kept from (the wife's) confinement, he throws into that fire at the time of the morning and evening twilight, until (the mother) gets up (from childbed), mustard seeds mixed with rice chaff (pronouncing the following names of demons and goblins): 'May Sanda and Marka, Upavîra, Saundikeya, Ulûkhala, Malimluka, Dronâsa, Kyavana vanish hence. Svâhâ!  
> 'May Âlikhat, Animisha, Kimvadanta, Upasruti, Haryaksha, Kumbhin, Satru, Pâtrapâni, Nrimani, Hantrîmukha, Sarshapâruna, Kyavana vanish hence. Svâhâ!'  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.24)

yadi kumāra upadravejjālena pracchādyottarīyeṇa vā pitā 'ṅka ādhāya japati kūrkuraḥ sukaūrkuraḥ kūrkuro bālabandhanaḥ \ ceccecchunaka sṛja namaste astu sīsaro lapetāpahvara tatsatyam \ yatte devā varamadaduḥ sa tvaṃ kumārameva vā vṛṇīthāḥ \ ceccecchunaka sṛja namaste astu sīsaro lapetāpahvara tatsatyam \ yatte saramā mātā sīsaraḥ pitā śyāmaśabalau bhrātarau ceccecchunaka sṛja namaste astu sīsaro lapetāpahvareti \24\

> If (the demon bringing disease) Kumâra attacks the boy, the father covers him with a net or with an upper garment, takes him on his lap, and murmurs: Kûrkura, Sukûrkura, Kûrkura, who holds fast children. Ket! ket! doggy! let him loose. Reverence be to thee, the Sîsara, barker, bender.  
> 'That is true that the gods have given a boon to thee. Hast thou then chosen even this boy?  
> 'Ket! ket! doggy! let him loose. Reverence be to thee, the Sîsara, barker, bender.  
> 'That is true that (the divine she-dog) Saramâ is thy mother, Sîsara thy father, the black and the speckled (two dogs of Yama) thy brothers.  
> 'Ket! ket! doggy! let him loose. Reverence be to thee, the Sîsara, barker, bender.'  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

### [1.16.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.16.25)

abhimṛśati na nāmayati na rudati na hṛṣyati na glāyati yatra vayaṃ vadāmo yatra cābhimṛśāmasīti \25\ \\16\\

> He then touches (the boy) with (the words), 'He does not suffer, he does not cry, he is not stiff, he is not sick, when we speak to him and when we touch him.'  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)

## Translations (1)

- [The Grihya-sûtras, Part I (SBE 29)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara~en-oldenberg.1.16.1) — Hermann Oldenberg 1886, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Pāraskaragṛhyasūtrabhāṣya (Harihara)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara!harihara.16.25.1) — Harihara (Pāraskara commentator), Sanskrit

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