History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.1054

v5.c75.1054

Tonsure (vapana or muṇḍana), vide under Prayāga, Āp Dh S provides that all sapiṇḍas younger than the deceased had to undergo tonsure 218, difference between muṇḍana and kṣaura 575, differed according to extent of expiation 123, forbidden in the case of one whose wife was pregnant 122-123, in prāyaścittas, 122-124, in case of married women whose husbands were alive was restricted to cutting off two finger-breadths of hair 123, 574, 575, may take place on 2nd, 3rd or other day up till śrāddha on 11th day after death 217, mode of, in daiva form declared in Tai Br 122, mode of daiva t prescribed for ādhāna, iṣṭi and soma sacrifices 122, necessary because sins were supposed to resort to the hair of those that became pilgrims 574, not insisted upon in expiations for king, prince or learned brāhmaṇas, but then they had to undergo double the usual penance 123, no tonsure in cāndrāyaṇa performed solely for accumulating merit 135; no tonsure if cremation took place at night 217; none at Gayā 669, occasions when t. should be undergone 122, 574, of performer of cremation rites 217, three kinds of, āsura, daiva and mānuṣa, of which only the last two are allowed 122, religious occasions for tonsure 573-575, restricted to hair on the head and lips generally (the top knot, hair on eye-brows and on the trunk being excepted) but in expiations the exception was not enforced 122-123, seven cases where t is obligatory 217, 574, unnecessary acc to some, in expiations other than cāndrāyaṇa 124, whether obligatory when starting on a pilgrimage 573-74, widows, śūdras, and ascetics had to submit to t of all hair in prāyaścitta and tīrthayātrā 123, 575