Kauthumagrihyasutra 18
Kauthumagṛhyasūtra 18
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abhibhātmānaḥ sarvāṅgaiḥ pratyekasahasraṃ sthaṇḍilamupalipya ikṣudaṇjaśakaṃ kṛtvodagagramāstīryopari śiṣyopaveśanam navaśūrpaṃ śirasi nidhāya kuśaiḥ chādayitvācāryo ghaṭenāñjaliṃ pūrayitvā dakṣiṇapādenākramya yena deveti namantriya eto nvindretyabhiṣicya punaśca vāsasā paridhāya caturasraṃ sthaṇḍilamupalipya pūrvopanayanavat pravaṇaṃ kṛtvā brīhīn vā yavān vā yathācchakasthaṃḍilaṃ pūrayitvā taṃ śūrpaṃ tadupari nidhāya tathā śiṣyopaveśanaṃ pūrvoktamantreṇa payasādi śiṣyamastake 'bhiṣiñcet caturasraṃ sthaṇḍilamupalipya pūrvopayanavat praṇayanaṃ kṛtvācāryo mekhalāṃ trirāvṛttāṃ baddhvā tūṣṇīṃ śiṣyo mantraṃ vācayitvā yathoktamantreṇa yajñopavītī śarāvaṃ mārjayitvā śanno devīriti pañcaśataṃ yaḥ pāvamānīriti triḥ śataṃ eto nvindramaṣṭacatvāri samāṃ yatra śataṃ vā śatavāraṇapraṇavaṃ śatamaṣṭottaraṃ ebhirmārjayitvā punaśca yathoktamārjanaṃ kṛtvā śucau deśe sthaṇḍilaṃ vartayitvā vā kuśagrān sahasramādāya dviśatādhikaṃ vā śataṃ vibhajya śatāgraṃ śirasi nidhāya śataṃ pādatale nidhāyākramya pārśvayoḥ śataṃ śataṃ badhnīyāt urasi āpo hiṣṭheti sahasraṃ japitvā śanno devīriti dviguṇameto nvindraṃ catvāriṃśad gāyatraṃ pañcasahasraṃ praṇavamayutaṃ kṛtvā //
Having smeared the sacrificial ground individually a thousand times for all the limbs, having made a piece of sugarcane, having spread [darbha] with the tips pointing northward, the seating of the student upon it [takes place]. Having placed a new winnowing-basket on the head and covered it with kuśa grass, the preceptor, having filled the folded hands with a pot, having stepped forward with the right foot, consecrating with “Yena devāḥ...”, having sprinkled him with “Eto nv indram...”, and having clothed him with a garment, having smeared the square sacrificial ground, having made an incline as in the previous investiture (upanayana), having filled the ground according to desire with either rice or barley, having placed that winnowing-basket upon it, the seating of the student [takes place] likewise; he should sprinkle with milk and so forth onto the head of the student with the previously mentioned mantra. Having smeared the square sacrificial ground and performed the bringing forward [of fire] as in the previous investiture, the preceptor, having tied the girdle wound thrice, silently having the student recite the mantra, wearing the sacred thread, having wiped the shallow dish with the prescribed mantra, having wiped with “Śaṃ no devīḥ...” five hundred times, “Yaḥ pāvamānīḥ...” three hundred times, “Eto nv indram...” forty-[eight] times, where there are a hundred, or a hundred repetitions of om, one hundred and eight times, and having again performed the wiping as prescribed, having laid out the sacrificial ground in a clean place, or having taken a thousand tips of kuśa grass, or having divided a hundred into [bunches] exceeding two hundred, having placed a hundred tips on the head, having placed a hundred under the soles of the feet and stepped on them, he should tie a hundred to each of the two sides; on the chest, having muttered “Āpo hi ṣṭhā...” a thousand times, “Śaṃ no devīḥ...” twice that amount, “Eto nv indram...” forty times, the Gāyatrī five thousand times, having performed the syllable om ten thousand times.
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