1. Having studied the Veda, when going to take the bath (which signifies the end of his studentship), he enters a cow-shed before sunrise, hangs over its door a skin with the hair inside, and sits there.
2. On that day the sun should not shine upon him.
3. 3 At noon, after (the ceremonies) from the putting (of wood) on the fire down to the Âgyabhâga oblations (have been performed), he puts a piece of Palâsa wood on (the fire) with the next (verse; M. II, 7, 1), sits down to the west of the fire on a mat or on erakâ grass, recites the next (verse, II, 7, 2) over a razor, and hands it over to the barber with the next Yagus (II, 7, 3). (The rites) beginning with the pouring together of (warm and cold) water down to the burying of the hair are the same as above (comp. M. II, 7, 4).
4. He sits down behind the cow-shed, takes the girdle off, and hands it over to a Brahmakârin.
5. The (Brahmakârin) hides it with the next Yagus (II, 7, 5) at the root of an Udumbara tree or in a tuft of Darbha grass.
6. 6 With water of the description stated above he
275:3 12, 3. See above, IV, 10, 5-8. 275:6 See IV, 10, 5.
