1. After he has studied the Veda, the bath (which signifies the end of his studentship, is taken by him).
2. We shall explain that (bath).
3. During the northern course of the sun, in the time of the increasing moon, under (the Nakshatra) Rohinî, (or) Mrigasiras, (or) Tishya, (or) Uttarâ
5. Then he sacrifices with the Vyâhritis as above,
6. 6 (And another oblation with the verse), 'The threefold age of Gamadagni, Kasyapa's threefold age, the threefold age that belongs to the gods: may that threefold age be mine. Svâhâ!'
7. (Then follow oblations with the verses), 'This, O Varuna,' &c. (see above, I, 2, 8, 16, down to the end of the Sûtra).
8. 8 After he has served food to the Brâhmanas, and has caused them to say, 'An auspicious day! Hail! Good luck!' he discharges himself of his vow by (repeating) these (Mantras), 'Agni, lord of the vow, I have kept the vow.'
9. Having (thus) discharged himself of his vow, he worships the sun with the two (verses), 'Upwards
11. 11 Having handed over (that razor) to the barber, he touches the water with which his hair is to be moistened, with (the formula), 'Be blissful, (O waters), when we touch you.' [(The barber) then pours together warm and cold water. Having poured warm (water) into cold (water)—]
12. 12 (The barber) moistens the hair near the right ear with (the words), 'May the waters moisten thee for life, for old age and splendour' (Taitt. Samhitâ I, 2, 1, 1).
14. 14 With (the words), 'Axe! do no harm to him!' (Taitt. Samh., loc. cit.), he touches (that herb) with the razor.
15. With (the words), 'Heard by the gods, I shave that (hair)' (Taitt. Samh., loc. cit.), he shaves him.
16. 16 With (the formula), 'If thou shavest, O shaver, my hair and my beard with the razor, the wounding, the well-shaped, make our face resplendent, but do not take away our life'—(the student who is going to take the bath), looks at the barber.
17. He has the beard shaven first, then the hair in his arm-pits, then the hair (on his head), then the hair of his body, then (he has) his nails (cut).
18. A person who is kindly disposed (towards the student), gathers the hair, the beard, the hair of the body, and the nails (that have been cut off), in a lump of bull's dung, and buries (that lump of dung) in a cow-stable, or near an Udumbara tree, or in a clump of Darbha grass, with (the words), 'Thus I
162:4 9, 4. Comp. I, 1, 3, 4; Rig-veda I, 94, 1. 'Where the words are used, "He puts wood on the fire" (agnim upasamâdhâya), he should prepare the ground by raising it, &c., should carry the fire to that place, should put wood on it, and then he should sacrifice in the fire. Where those words are not used, he should (only) strew grass round the fire which is (already) established in its proper place, and should thus perform the sacrifice.' Mâtridatta. 162:6 Sâṅkhâyana I, 28, 9. 162:8 Comp. I, 2, 7, 25; 8, 7. 163:10 The words quoted in this Sûtra are the parts of a Rik which is found in Taittirîya Samhitâ I, 5, 11, 3. 163:11 The words which I have included in brackets are wanting in some of the MSS., and are not explained in the commentaries. They are doubtless a spurious addition. Comp. Âsvalâyana I, 57, 6, &c. 163:12 Pâraskara II, 1, 9. The same expression dakshinam godânam, of which I have treated there in the note, is used in this Sûtra. Comp., besides, Sâṅkhâyana-Grihya I, 28, 9; Âpastamba-Srauta-sûtra 164:14 Yâgñikadeva in his commentary on Kâtyâyana (loc. cit.) says, kshurenâbhinidhâya kshuradhârâm antarhitatrinasyopari nidhâya. 164:16 Âsvalâyana I, 17, 16. Comp. also Rig-veda I, 24, 11.
