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1-2. The Sage said. O Brahmin! I will now tell
you about other kinds of inauspicious births. The
birth of a daughter after the birth of three sons,
or the birth of a son after the birth of three
daughters is ominous for both the maternal and
paternal families of such children. Therefore
remedial measures, described below, may be taken to
get deliverance from these evil effects.
3-9. The rites should be performed on the morning
next to the last day of Sutak, or on any other
auspicious day in the following order. After
selecting a priest and some Brahmins to perform the
remedial religious rites, the priest, after paying
obeisance to the nine Grahas, should install four
Kalashas on a heap of paddy, place the idols of
Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesha and Indra, made of gold, on
them and perform their worship in the prescribed
manner. A Brahmin (an assistant of the priest),
after taking bath etc., should recite four Rudra
Suktas and the whole of Shanti Sukta. The priest
should perform Havan with Samidha, Ghī and sesame
seeds 1008, 108, or 28 times with the recitation of
the prescribed Mantras of Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesha
and Indra. Svistkrata and Purnahuti and Abhisheka of
the child with his family should be done and
presents in cash should be given to the priest and
his assistants, according to one’s means. The
Brahmins should be fed. The father and the mother of
the child should see their reflections in the Ghī,
kept in a bronze vessel. Lastly grains and clothes
should be distributed to the poor and the needy. By
the performance of the above remedial rites the evil
effects are wiped out and the child and his parents
etc. enjoy happiness.
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