20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

676 JULIETA Rotaruparidāna is to be inferred in a number of other saṃskāras performed forthe child, as explained by Keśava in his commentary on the sūtra 58.17-18, describing the rite of the name giving, and under KauśS 58.20-21,prescribing the first feeding:śive te stām (ŚS 8.2.14) ityādi paridānāni siṃhāvalokananyāyenagodānamadhye uktāni | […] godānavat paridānāni dadāti |nāmakaraṇe niṣkramaṇe annaprāśane ca godānikāni paridānānibhavati | – “With the verses beginning with “Let heaven-andearthbe propitious to thee” (ŚS 8.2.14) the “commendations”[follow] explained in the rite for godāna by means of the maximof the “lion's backward look” (i.e. going forward but lookingbackwards). […] He offers the commendations like in the rite forthe first shaving. The commendations are employed in the rite forgiving the name, in the first stepping out, in the first feeding withsolid food and in the rites of the first shaving.”In all probability the ceremony was very familiar in the Atharvavediccircles, since Kauśika sketches merely the mantras therein employed.Keśava 13 records four offerings of rice-barley and śamī, consecrated withthe aforesaid mantras, presented on the child’s head with these tyāgaformulas: “I commend you to sky and earth”, “I commend you to rice andbarley” 14 , “I commend you to day and night!”, and “I commend you to theseasons!”, respectively.2.1. The paridāna in the Śaunaka traditionA proper description of the four paridānas occurs in the uneditedand “What thou eatest” (ŚS 8.2.18-19). He delivers the child to day and night [with theverse] “Both to day and to night” (ŚS 8.2.20). [He delivers the child] to the seasons [withthe verse] “Unto autumn, unto winter” (ŚS 8.2.22).”13śive te stām (ŚS 8.2.14-15) iti dve | pārthivasya (ŚS 2.29.1-2) iti dve | mā pra gāma(ŚS 13.1.59-60) iti dve | etābhir ṛgbhiḥ vrīhiyavaśamīm abhimantrya kumārasya mūrdhnidadāti | śivau te stām (ŚS 8.2.18-19) iti dve | pārthivasya (ŚS 2.29.1-2) iti dve | mā pra gāma(ŚS 13.1.59-60) iti dve | etābhir ṛgbhiḥ vrīhiyavaśamīm abhimantrya mūrdhni dadāti | ahneca tvā (ŚS 8.2.20) ity ekā | pārthivasya (ŚS 2.29.1-2) iti dve | mā pra gāma (ŚS 13.1.59-60)iti dve | ahorātrābhyāṃ paridadāmi | vrīhyādi mūrdhni dadāti | śarade tvā (ŚS 8.2.22) ityekā | pārthivasya (ŚS 2.29.1-2) iti dve | mā pra gāma (ŚS 13.1.59-60) iti dve | ṛtubhyaṣṭvā(sic! ṛtubhyas tvā) paridadāmi | vrīhyādi mūrdhni dadāti | abhyātānādyuttaratantram |14These two are actually mentioned under KauśS 58.19: śive te stām (ŚS 8.2.14-15) iti dvābhyāṃ pārthivasya (ŚS 2.29.1-2) iti dve mā pra gāma (ŚS 13.1.59-60) iti dveetābhir ṛgbhiḥ vrīhyādi mūrdhni dadāti | dyāvāpṛthivībhyāṃ tvā paridadāmi | śivau te stām(ŚS 8.2.18-19) ityādi | vrīhiyavābhyāṃ tvā paridadāmi |