उपनयनम्Upanayana, investiture with the sacred thread
Verse 194
मौञ्जीं कुशमयीं वापि त्रिवृतां ग्रन्थिसंयुताम् । तूष्णीं च मेखलां दद्यात् काषायाम्बरधारिणे ॥ १९४ ॥
mauñjīṁ kuśamayīṁ vāpi trivṛtāṁ granthisaṁyutām | tūṣṇīṁ ca mēkhalāṁ dadyāt kāṣāyāmbaradhāriṇē || 194 ||
Translation
And to the boy wearing the ochre cloth he should give, in silence, a girdle of muñja grass or of kuśa, threefold and knotted.
Word by word
- mauñjīṁ
- of muñja grass
- kuśamayīṁ
- of kuśa
- vā
- or
- api
- also
- trivṛtāṁ
- threefold
- granthi
- knots
- saṁyutām
- (saṁyutām) with
- tūṣṇīṁ
- in silence
- ca
- and
- mēkhalāṁ
- a girdle
- dadyāt
- should give
- kāṣāya
- ochre
- ambara
- cloth
- dhāriṇē
- to the wearer of
Meaning
The mekhalā, the girdle of the student, is three-stranded and knotted. It is given without words.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Mauñjīm". To the boy who wears the red-brown cloth he should give, in silence, a girdle made of muñja grass or of kuśa, threefold and knotted.