1 1. After one year the Kûdâkarman (i.e. the tonsure of the child's head);
2. Or in the third year;
3. In the fifth for a Kshatriya;
4. In the seventh for a Vaisya.
5. Having placed the fire (in the outer hall; see chap. 5, 2)—
6. And having filled vessels with rice and barley, sesamum seeds and beans,
7. And having put down northwards bull-dung and a layer of Kusa grass for receiving the hair, a mirror, fresh butter, and a razor of copper,
8. He pours cold water into warm with (the verse), 'Mix yourselves, ye holy ones, with your waves, ye honied ones, mixing milk with honey, ye lovely ones, for the obtaining of wealth.'
9. 'May the waters moisten thee for life, for old age and splendour. The threefold age of Gamadagni, Kasyapa's threefold age, the threefold age of
16. In the same way a second time; in the same way a third time.
17. In the same way twice on the left side.
18. Under the armpits a sixth and a seventh time at the Godânakarman (ceremony of shaving the beard).
19. The Godânakarman is identical with the Kûdâkarman,
55:1 28, 1. Kûlâkarman literally means, the preparing of the lock or the locks (left when the rest of the hair is shaven).
56:15 The parallel texts show that instead of Brihaspatir we have to read Brihaspater, instead of adya, asya. So the correct translation would be, '. . . with what Dhâtar has shaven Brihaspati's and Indra's head, with that do ye Brâhmanas shave this head of this (child).'
57:24 See Sûtra 6.
