Kauthumagrihyasutra 11
Kauthumagṛhyasūtra 11
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tataścandradarśam /
jananādi daśarātrātpare dve vā tasminnakṣatre taṃ kumāraṃ syātitātaṃ vetadūrdhakimāṃsuśadarśanaṃ tadabhāvaṃ darśanaṃ kṛtvā cāma kuryāt kathaṃ vakṣyāmi nāndomukhaṃ pūrva'hani tataḥ ahanyuṣasi snātvā yajamānaścaturasraṃ sthaṇḍilamupalipya gṛhyāgnerekadeśāgni vibhajya samūhanādi prapadāntaṃ kṛtvā idhmāṅgaṃ hutvā tato mātā svakumāramādāyāhatena vāsā parighāya dakṣiṇataḥ pratyaṅmukhaḥ upaviśya tatkārayitvā patihaste pradāya pṛṣṭhato gatvottarato upaviśya yajamānasvaṃ kumāraṃ avalokya vyāhṛtibhistisṛbhirhutvā punaḥ pradāya yajamāno paṃcāṃ madhyena ko 'sīti dvābhyāmarakṣaṇā pratinetramabhimṛśet katamo 'sīti caturakṣareṇa śrotrābhyāṃ eṣo 'sīti tryakṣareṇa nāsāgre madhyamūlamabhimṛśed amṛtosīti caturakṣareṇa pāṇibāhubhyāṃ pratyekamabhimṛśed amṛtosīti caturakṣareṇa pāṇibāhubhyāṃ pratyekamabhimṛśya śeṣeṇa mastakaṃ gṛhītvā tato mātā ca vāmahastena kumāryavakaṃ gṛhitvā pūrvoktamākhyānaṃ dakṣiṇaṃ śravaṇe upāṃśu brūyāt tato yajamāno dakṣiṇaṃ gṛhṇīyāt tata upāṃśu sarvānhetyativādanīyaṃ nāma brūyāt tata upariṣṭāddhomaṃ samāpya yathā vāmadevyaṃgītvā pativartāśiṣo vācayitvā tathā brāhmaṇabhojanam //
Then the moon-viewing rite (candradarśana).
After ten nights from the birth, or on the second [day], or on that [same] lunar asterism, that boy... I shall describe how: the ancestral offering for prosperity (nāndīmukha) [is performed] on the preceding day; then, having bathed at dawn on the [following] day, the patron of the sacrifice, having smeared a four-cornered sacrificial ground, having divided the fire from a portion of the domestic fire, having performed [the rites] from the sweeping up to the introductory formula (prapada), having made the offering of the kindling sticks (idhmāṅga); then the mother, taking her boy, clothed in unwashed garments, sitting on the south facing west, having caused that to be done, placing [him] into the hand of her husband, having gone behind, sits on the north. The patron of the sacrifice, looking at his boy, having offered with the three mystic utterances (vyāhṛti), having handed [him] back, the patron of the sacrifice touches each eye with the middle of the five [fingers] with the two [formulas], 'ko 'si...'; touches the two ears with the four-syllable [formula], 'katamo 'si...'; touches the root of the middle of the tip of the nose with the three-syllable [formula], 'eṣo 'si...'; touches each hand and arm with the four-syllable [formula], 'amṛto 'si...'; having touched each hand and arm with the four-syllable [formula], 'amṛto 'si...', having taken the head with the remainder; then the mother, taking the boy with her left hand, should whisper the aforesaid appellation into his right ear. Then the patron of the sacrifice should take the right [ear/hand]. Then he should speak in a low voice the name used in greeting. Then, having completed the subsequent offerings, having sung the Vāmadevya chant according to rule, having caused the chaste wife to recite blessings, then the feeding of brahmins.
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