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जननाद्यस्तृतीयो ज्यौत्स्नस्तस्य तृतीयायां प्रातः सशिरस्कं कुमारमाप्लाव्यास्तमिते वीते लोहितिम्न्यञ्जलिकृतः पितोपतिष्ठते १

1. ¹ On the third (Tithi) of the third bright fortnight after his birth, in the morning the father has the child washed, including his head, and after sunset, when the evening-red has disappeared, he worships (the moon), holding up his joined hands.

अथ माता शुचिना वसनेन कुमारमाच्छाद्य दक्षिणत उदञ्चं पित्रे प्रयच्छत्युदक्शिरसम् २

2. Then the mother, having dressed the son in a clean garment, hands him, from south to north, with his face turned to the north, to the father.

अनुपृष्ठं परिक्रम्योत्तरतोऽवतिष्ठते ३

3. She then passes behind his back and stations herself to the north (of her husband).

अथ जपति यत्ते सुसीम इति यथायं न प्रमीयेत पुत्रो जनित्र्या अधीति ४

4. He then murmurs (the three verses), ‘Thy heart, O thou whose hair is well parted’ (MB. I, 5, 10-12), and after he has, with the words (standing at the end of verse 12), ‘That this son may not come to harm (and thus be torn) from his mother’—

उदञ्चं मात्रे प्रदाय यथार्थम् ५

5. Handed him, from south to north, to his mother, they may do what they like.

अथ येऽत ऊर्ध्वं ज्यौत्स्नाः प्रथमोद्दिष्ट एव तेषु पितोपतिष्ठतेऽपामञ्जलिं पूरयित्वाभिमुखश्चन्द्र मसम् ६

6. ² Then in the following bright fortnights (at the time) stated above (Sūtra I), the father, filling his joined hands with water and turning his face towards the moon, worships it—

यददश्चन्द्र मसीति सकृद्यजुषा द्विस्तूष्णीमुत्सृज्य यथार्थम् ७

7. Letting (the water) flow (out of his joined hands) once with the Yajus, ‘What in the moon’ (MB. I, 5, 13), and twice silently. Then they may do what they like.

जननाद्दशरात्रे व्युष्टे शतरात्रे संवत्सरे वा नामधेयकरणम् ८

8. ³ When ten nights have elapsed after (the child’s) birth, or a hundred nights, or one year, the Nāmadheyakaraṇa (or giving a name to the child, is performed).

अथ यस्तत्करिष्यन्भवति पश्चादग्नेरुदगग्रेषु दर्भेषु प्राङुपविशति ९

9. He who is going to perform (that ceremony—the father or a representative of the father), sits down to the west of the fire on northward-pointed Darbha grass, facing the east.

अथ माता शुचिना वसनेन कुमारमाच्छाद्य दक्षिणत उदञ्चं कर्त्रे प्रयच्छत्युदक्शिरसम् १०

10. ⁴ Then the mother, having dressed the son in a clean garment, hands him, from south to north, with his face turned to the north, to the performer (of the ceremony).

अनुपृष्ठम्परिक्रम्योत्तरत उपविशत्युदगग्रेष्वेव दर्भेषु ११

11. She then passes behind his back and sits down to the north (of him), on northward-pointed Darbha grass.

अथ जुहोति प्रजापतये तिथये नक्षत्राय देवताया इति १२

12. ⁵ He then sacrifices to Prajāpati, to the Tithi (of the child’s birth), to the Nakṣatra (of the child’s birth), and to the (presiding) deity (of that Tithi and of that Nakṣatra).

तस्य मुख्यान्प्राणान्सम्मृशन्कोऽसि कतमोऽसीत्येतं मन्त्रं जपति १३

13. He then murmurs the Mantra, ‘Who art thou? What person art thou?’ (MB. I, 5, 14. 15), touching the sense-organs at (the boy’s) head.

आहस्पत्यं मासं प्रविशासावित्यन्ते च मन्त्रस्य घोषवदाद्यन्तरन्तस्थं दीर्घाभिनिष्ठानान्तं कृतं नाम दध्यात् १४

14. ⁶ In (the passage of the Mantra), ‘Enter upon the month, that belongs to Ahaspati (i.e. the lord of days), N.N.!’ and at the end of the Mantra he should give him a name beginning with a sonant, with a semivowel in it, with a long vowel or the Visarga at the end, (and formed with) a Kṛt (suffix).

एतदतद्धितम् १५

15. It should not contain a Taddhita (suffix).

अयुग्दान्तं स्त्रीणाम् १६

16. (He should give a name with) an odd (number of syllables), ending in -dā, to girls.

मात्रे चैव प्रथमं नामधेयमाख्याय यथार्थम् १७

17. And after he has told the name to the mother first, they may do what they like.

गौर्दक्षिणा १८

18. A cow constitutes the sacrificial fee.

कुमारस्य मासि मासि संवत्सरे सांवत्सरिकेषु वा पर्वस्वग्नीन्द्रौ द्यावापृथिवी विश्वान्देवाँ श्च यजेत १९

19. ⁷ Every month (after the birth) of the boy, (or) after one year, or on the Parvan days of the year (i.e. on the last Tithi of each of the three seasons) he should sacrifice to Agni and Indra, to Heaven and Earth, and to the Viśve devās.

दैवतमिष्ट्वा तिथिं नक्षत्रं च यजेत २०

20. ⁸ Having sacrificed to the deity (of the Tithi and of the Nakṣatra respectively), he should sacrifice to the Tithi and to the Nakṣatra.

विप्रोष्य ज्येष्ठस्य पुत्रस्योभाभ्यां पाणिभ्यां मूर्धानं परिगृह्य जपेद्यदा वा पिता म इति विद्यादुपेतस्य वाङ्गादङ्गात्सस्रवसीति २१

21. ⁹ When (the father) returns from a journey, or when (the son) begins to know, ‘This is my father,’ or when (the son) has been initiated, (the father) should grasp with his two hands his son round the head, and should murmur, ‘From limb by limb thou art produced’ (MB. I, 5, 16-18).

पशूनां त्वा हिङ्कारेणाभिजिघ्रामीत्यभिजिघ्र्य यथार्थम् २२

22. With (the formula), ‘With the cattle’s hiṃkāra I kiss thee’ (l.l. 19) he should kiss him. Then he may do what he likes.

एवमेवावरेषाम् २३

23. In the same way (he should do) to his younger sons—

यथाज्येष्ठं यथोपलम्भं वा २४

24. According to their age or in the order in which he meets them.

स्त्रियास्तूष्णीं मूर्धन्यभिजिघ्रणं मूर्धन्यभिजिघ्रणम् २५

25. ¹⁰ Girls he should silently kiss on their head; he should silently kiss them on their head.