ऋतुसंस्कारःThe rite of the season
Verse 104
पतिपुत्रवतीभिश्च नारीभिः परिवेष्टितः । शिरश्चालभ्य हस्ताभ्यां बध्वाः क्रोड़ाञ्चले पतिः ॥ १०४ ॥
patiputravatībhiśca nārībhiḥ parivēṣṭitaḥ | śiraścālabhya hastābhyāṁ badhvāḥ krōḍāñcalē patiḥ || 104 ||
Translation
Surrounded by women who have husbands and sons, the husband, touching his wife's head with both hands, in the fold of her cloth
Word by word
- pati
- husbands
- putra
- and sons
- vatībhiḥ
- (vatībhiḥ) by women having
- ca
- and
- nārībhiḥ
- by women
- parivēṣṭitaḥ
- surrounded
- śiraḥ
- (śiraḥ) the head
- ālabhya
- having touched
- hastābhyāṁ
- with both hands
- badhvāḥ
- (vadhvāḥ) of the wife
- krōḍa
- (kroḍa) the lap
- añcalē
- in the fold of the cloth
- patiḥ
- the husband
Meaning
Married women whose husbands and children are living (pati-putra-vatī) stand round as auspicious witnesses. The sentence continues in the next verse.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Pati" and the rest. Surrounded by women who have husbands and sons, the husband, touching his wife's head with both hands, in the lap of her cloth, with his hands, meditating on Viṣṇu, Durgā, Vidhi (Brahmā)and Prajāpati and the Sun, he should give three fruits. "Samāpayet": supply "the ārtava rite" (he should complete the rite of the season).