Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c10.s2.31
Early History of the Vaiṣṇava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c10.s2.31
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The Puṃsavana (ceremony for obtaining a male child) is generally performed on an auspicious day at the beginning of the third month of gestation and before the period of quickening. In it the husband and the wife are to bathe in the morning, and the former is to worship Viṣṇu and the series of preceptors (the worship of the preceptors being called Sāttvika-vṛddhi-śrāddha), perform Kuṣaṇḍikā in a fire named Candra, perform Mahāvyahṛti-homa, Sātyāyana-homa etc. with his wife on his right side, and offer fee (Dakṣiṇā) to the Pañcarātra priest.