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1. ‘As the wind blows, as the ocean waves, thus may the embryo move; may it come forth together with the after-birth’ - with (this verse) he strokes (her body) from above downwards.

यथैव वायुः पवते यथा समुद्र एजति एवं ते गर्भ एजतु सह जरायुणावसर्पतु इत्यवाङवमार्ष्टि १

2. When the child is born, he lays an axe on a stone, and a piece of gold on that axe; after he has turned these things upside down (so that the stone lies uppermost), he holds the boy over them with (the two verses),

‘Be a stone, be an axe, be insuperable gold. Thou indeed art the Veda called son; so live a hundred autumns.

‘From limb by limb thou art produced; out of the heart thou art born. Thou indeed art the self (ātman) called son; so live a hundred autumns.’

जातेश्मनि परशुं निधायोपरिष्टाद्धिरण्यं तेषूत्तराधरेषूपरिष्टात्कुमारं धारयति अश्मा भव परशुर्भव हिरण्यमस्तृतं भव वेदो वै पुत्रनामासि जीव त्वं शरदः शतम् अङ्गादङ्गात्सम्भवसि हृदयादधिजायसे आत्मा वै पुत्रनामासि स जीव शरदः शतमिति २

3. (The contents of this Sūtra are similar to those of Pāraskara I, 16, 2.)

यद्यपरा न पतेदञ्जलिनोदकमादाय मूर्धानमस्यावसिञ्चेत् । तिलदेव पद्यस्व न मांसमसि नो दलम् । अवपद्यस्व स्वपथात् । इति ३

4. They take the Aupāsana (or regular Gṛhya) fire away, and they bring the Sūtikāgni (or the fire of the confinement).

उपनिर्हरन्त्यौपासनमतिहरन्ति सूतिकाग्निम् ४

5. That (fire) is only used for warming (dishes, etc.).

स एष उत्तपनीय एव ५

6. No ceremonies are performed with it except the fumigation (see the next Sūtra).

नास्मिन्किञ्चन कर्म क्रियतेन्यत्रोद्धूपनात् ६

7. ¹ He fumigates (the child) with small grains mixed with mustard seeds. These he throws into the coals (of the Sūtikāgni) (eleven times, each time with one of the following Mantras):

(a) ‘May Śaṇḍa and Marka, Upavīra, Śāṇḍikera, Ulūkhala, Cyavana vanish from here. Svāhā!

(b) ‘Ālikhat, Vilikhat, Animiṣa, Kiṃvadanta, Upaśruti. Svāhā!

(c) ‘Aryamṇa, Kumbhin, Śatru, Pātrapāṇi, Nipuṇi. Svāhā!

(d) ‘May Āntrīmukha, Sarshapāruṇa vanish from here. Svāhā!

(e) ‘Keśinī, Śvalominī, Bajābojā, Upakāśini - go away, vanish from here. Svāhā!

(f) ‘The servants of Kuvera, Viśvavāsa (?), sent by the king of demons, all of one common origin, walk through the villages, visiting those who wake (?). Svāhā!

(g) ‘“Kill them! Bind them!” thus (says) this messenger of Brahman. Agni has encompassed them. Indra knows them; Bṛhaspati knows them; I the Brāhmaṇa know them who seize (men), who have prominent teeth, rugged hair, hanging breasts. Svāhā!

(h) ‘The night-walkers, wearing ornaments on their breasts, with lances in their hands, drinking out of skulls! Svāhā!

(i) ‘Their father Uccaiḥśrāvyakarṇaka walks (?) at their head, their mother walks in the rear, seeking a vikhura (?) in the village. Svāhā!

(k) ‘The sister, the night-walker, looks at the family through the rift (?) - she who wakes while people sleep, whose mind is turned on the wife that has become mother. Svāhā!

(l) ‘O god with the black path, Agni, burn the lungs, the hearts, the livers of those (female demons); burn their eyes. Svāhā!’

अथैनं कणैः सर्षपमिश्रैरुद्धूपयति । शण्डो मर्क उपवीरः शाण्डीकेर उलूखलः । च्यवनो नश्यतादितः । स्वाहा । आलिखन्विलिखन्ननिमिषन्किंवदन्त उपश्रुतिः । स्वाहा । अर्यम्णः कुम्भी शत्रुः पात्रपाणिर्निपुणिः । स्वाहा । आन्त्रीमुखः सर्षपारुणो नश्यतादितः । स्वाहा । केशिनी श्वलोमिनी बजाबोजोपकाशिनी । अपेत नश्यतादितः । स्वाहा । कौबेरका विश्ववासो रक्षोराजेन प्रेषिताः । ग्रामान्सजातयो यन्तीप्सन्तः परिजाकृतान् । स्वाहा । एतान्हतैतान्बध्नीतेत्ययं ब्रह्मणो दूतस्तानग्निः पर्यसरत् । तानिन्द्र स्तान्बृहस्पतिस्तानहं वेद ब्राह्मणः प्रमृशतः कूटदन्तान्विकेशाल्लँ म्बस्तनान् । स्वाहा नक्तञ्चारिण उरस्पेशाञ्छूलहस्तान्कपालपान् । स्वाहा पूर्व एषाम् पितेत्युच्चैःश्राव्यकर्णकः माता जघन्या गछन्ति ग्रामे विखुरमिच्छन्ती । स्वाहा नक्तञ्चारिणी स्वसा सन्धिना प्रेक्षते कुलम् या स्वपत्सु जागर्ति यस्यै विजातायां मनः । स्वाहा तासां त्वं कृष्णवर्त्मने क्लोमानं हृदयं यकृत् । अग्नेयक्षीणि निर्दह । स्वाहा । इति प्रतिमन्त्रमङ्गारेष्वावपति ७

8. ² Then he washes his hands and touches the ground with (the verses), ‘O thou whose hair is well parted! Thy heart that dwells in heaven, in the moon: of that immortality impart to us. May I not weep over distress (falling to my lot) through my sons.

‘I know thy heart, O earth, that dwells in heaven, in the moon: thus may I, the lord of immortality, not weep over distress (falling to my lot) through my sons.’

ततः पाणी प्रक्षाल्य भूमिमालभते यत्ते सुसीमे हृदयं दिवि चन्द्र मसि श्रितम् तस्यामृतत्वस्य नो धेहि माहं पौत्रमघं रुदम् वेद ते भूमि हृदयं दिवि चन्द्र मसि श्रितम् तथामृतत्वस्येशानो माहं पौत्रमघं रुदमिति इति ८

9. Now (follows) the medhājanana (or production of intelligence). With (an instrument of) gold over which he has laid a Darbha shoot tied (to that piece of gold) he gives to the child, which is held so that it faces the east, ghee to eat, with the formulas, ‘Bhūḥ! I sacrifice the Ṛcas over thee! Bhuvaḥ! I sacrifice the Yajus over thee! Suvaḥ! I sacrifice the Sāmans over thee! Bhūr bhuvaḥ suvaḥ! I sacrifice the Atharvan and Aṅgiras hymns over thee!’

अथातो मेधाजननम् । दर्भेण हिरण्यं प्रबध्य तदन्तर्धायोपरिष्टात्प्राञ्चं कुमारं धार्यमाणं घृतं प्राशयति । भूरृचस्त्वयि जुहोमि स्वाहा । भुवो यजूंषि त्वयि जुहोमि स्वाहा ॥ सुवः सामानि त्वयि जुहोमि स्वाहा । भूर्भुवः सुवरथर्वाङ्गिरसस्त्वयि जुहोमि स्वाहा । इति ९

10. ³ He then bathes the child with lukewarm water with (the following Mantras):

‘From chronic disease, from destruction, from wile, from Varuṇa’s fetter I release thee. I make thee guiltless before the Brahman; may both Heaven and Earth be kind towards thee.

‘May Agni together with the waters bring thee bliss, Heaven and Earth together with the herbs; may the air together with the wind bring thee bliss; may the four quarters of the heaven bring thee bliss.

‘Rightly have the gods released the sun from darkness and from the seizing demon; they have dismissed him from guilt; thus I deliver this boy from chronic disease, from curse that comes from his kin, from wile, from Varuṇa’s fetter.’

अथैनमुष्ण-शीताभिरद्भिः स्नापयति । क्षेत्रियै त्वा निरृत्यै त्वा द्रुहो मुञ्चामि वरुणस्य पाशात् । अनागसं ब्रह्मणे त्वा करोमि शिवे ते द्यावापृथिवी उभे इमे । शं ते अग्निः सहाद्भिरस्तु शं द्यावापृथिवी सहौषधीभिः । शमन्तरिक्षं सह वातेन ते शं ते चतस्रः प्रदिशो भवन्तु । सूर्यमृतं तमसो ग्राह्या यद्देवा अमुञ्चन्न-सृजन्व्येनसः । एवमहमिमं क्षेत्रियाज्जामिशंसाद्द्रुहो मुञ्चामि वरुणस्य पाशात् । इति १०

11. He then places the child in his mother’s lap with (the verse):

अथैनं मातुरुपस्थ आदधाति ११