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The significance of the four commendations... 677AtharvaṇīyaPaddhati (AthPaddh) 15 and still more elaborate, with the fullmantra quotation and repeated explanations, in the priestly handbookSaṃskāraRatnaMālā (SRM) 16 , also unedited and little known.15The text was used by BLOOMFIELD in his edition of the KauśS. V. his introductionfor details on this text and manuscripts. We further give the concerned passages fromthree manuscripts available with us. tataḥ paridānāni dadāti | śive te stām (ŚS 8.2.14-15) iti dvābhyāṃ pārthivasyeti (ŚS 2.29.1-2) dvābhyāṃ mā pragāmeti (ŚS 13.1.59-60)dvābhyāṃ vrīhiyavau śamīprāṃtāny udakaṃ ca | dyāvāpṛthivībhyāṃ tvā paridadati |kumārasya mūrdhni dadāti | punaḥ | śive te stām (ŚS 8.2.14-15) iti dvābhyāṃ pārthivasyeti(ŚS 2.29.1-2) dvābhyāṃ mā pragāmeti (ŚS 13.1.59-60) dvābhyāṃ vrīhiyavābhyāṃtvā paridadāmi | ahne ca tvety ekayā (ŚS 8.2.20) pārthivasyeti dve (ŚS 2.29.1-2) māpragāmeti dve (ŚS 13.1.59-60) ahorātrābhyāṃ tvā paridadāmi | śarade tvety ekayā (ŚS8.2.22) pārthivasyeti dve (ŚS 2.29.1-2) mā pragāmeti dve (ŚS 13.1.59-60) vrīhiyavauśamīpatrikā (sic!) udakaṃ ca | ṛtubhyaṣṭvā (sic! ṛtubhyas tvā) paridadāmi | kumārasyamūrdhni dadāti | iti catvāriparidānāni dadāti | – “Then the “commendations” [follow]: withtwo stanzas of ŚS 8.2.14-15, of ŚS 2.29.1-2 and of ŚS 13.1.59-60 rice and barley, leavesof śamī and water. He offers [these items] on the child's head, [saying]: “I commend youto the sky and earth!” With two stanzas of ŚS 8.2.14-15, with two of ŚS 2.29.1-2, and withtwo of ŚS 13.1.59-60, “I commend you to the rice and barley !” With one stanza of ŚS8.2.20, with two stanzas of ŚS 2.29.1-2, and with two of ŚS 13.2.59-60, “I commend youto the day and night!” With one stanza of ŚS 8.2.22, with two stanzas of ŚS 2.29.1-2, andwith two of ŚS 13.2.59-60, he offers on the child's head rice and barley, the śamī leaves,and the water, [saying]: “I commend you to the seasons!” Thus he accomplishes the four“commendations”.”16V. BAHULKAR 2004 for details about the text. An edition with notes andcommentary has been prepared by the present author in A Survey of the Domestic Ritualin the Atharvaveda Tradition according to the unedited text Saṃskāraratnamālā, togetherwith a Critical Edition and Translation with Notes, thesis submitted to the University ofBucharest in 2008, unpublished. The concerned fragment edited from the single availablemanuscript runs as follows: tataś catvāri paridānāni (em., paridāni) dadāti || [oṃ] śive testāṃ dyāvāpṛthivī asaṃtāpe abhiśriyau || śaṃ te sūrya ā tapatu śaṃ vāto vātu te hṛde ||śivā abhikṣaraṃtu tvāpo divyāḥ payasvatīḥ ||1|| śivās te saṃttv oṣadhaya ut tvā hārṣamadharasyā uttarāṃ pṛthivīm abhi || tatra tvādittyau rakṣatāṃ sūryācaṃdramasāv ubhā ||2||(ŚS 8.2.14-15) oṃ pārthivasya rase devā bhagasya tanvo 1 bale || āyuṣyam asmā agniḥsūryo varca ā dhād bṛhaspatiḥ ||1|| āyur asmai dhehi jātavedaḥ prajāṃ tvaṣṭar adhinidhehyasmai || rāyas poṣaṃ savitar ā suvāsmai śataṃ jīvāti śaradas tavāyaṃ ||2|| (ŚS 2.29.1-2)oṃ mā pra gāma patho vayaṃ mā yajñād iṃdra sominaḥ || māṃtaḥ (em., mānta) sthur noarātayaḥ ||1|| yo yajñasya prasādhanas taṃtur deveṣv ātataḥ || tam āhūtam aśīmahi ||2|| (ŚS13.1.59-60) vrīhiyavau śamīpatrāṇi (cf. – prāntāni AthPaddh) udakaṃ ca haste gṛhītvā ||dyāvāpṛthivībhyāṃ tvā paridadāmi || iti kumārasya mūrdhni dadāti || tato dvitīyaṃ || oṃśivau te stāṃ vrīhiyavāv abalāsāv adomadhau || etau yakṣmaṃ vi bādhete etau muṃcatoaṃhasaḥ ||1|| yad aśnāsi yat pibasi dhānyaṃ kṛṣyāḥ payaḥ || yad ādyaṃ 1 yad anādyaṃsarvaṃ te aṃnam aviṣaṃ kṛṇomi ||2|| (ŚS 8.2.18-19) pārthivasyeti dvābhyāṃ (ŚS 2.29.1-2) ||2|| mā pragāmeti dvābhyāṃ (ŚS 13.1.59-60) || vrīhiyavau śamīpatrāṇi udakaṃ cahaste gṛhītvā || vrīhiyavābhyāṃ tvā paridadāmi || iti kumārasya mūrdhni dadāti || tatas