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Verse 175
आसाद्य तनयं तत्र जनकः स्वीयवामतः । संस्थाप्य जननीक्रोड़े कवोष्णसलिलैश्च तैः ॥ १७५ ॥
āsādya tanayaṁ tatra janakaḥ svīyavāmataḥ | saṁsthāpya jananīkrōḍē kavōṣṇasalilaiśca taiḥ || 175 ||
Translation
Bringing the son there, the father seats him on his own left, in his mother's lap; and with that lukewarm water,
Word by word
- āsādya
- having brought
- tanayaṁ
- the son
- tatra
- there
- janakaḥ
- (janakaḥ) the father
- svīya
- own
- vāmataḥ
- (vāmataḥ) on the left
- saṁsthāpya
- having seated
- jananī
- of the mother
- krōḍē
- (kroḍe) in the lap
- kavōṣṇa
- lukewarm
- salilaiḥ
- (salilaiḥ) with the water
- ca
- and
- taiḥ
- that
Meaning
The child sits in the mother's lap, on the father's left, as the commentary explains.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Āsādya" and the rest. Then the janaka, the father, brings his son there, near the fire named Satya, and sets him on his left, in his mother's lap; with that lukewarm water set north of the fire, reciting the vāruṇa, the seed of Varuṇa, vaṁ, ten times, he moistens the hair of the child's head and, with māyā, the seed hrīṁ, with two kuśa leaves makes a single tuft (juṣṭi).