The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

utter in a bell- metal cup and offer oblations in the fire
repeatedly, uttering the mantra: "May I increase as the
son in my own home and support a thousand people!
May the Goddess of Fortune never depart, with children
and cattle, from his line! Svaha! The vital breath that is
in me, I mentally offer to you. Svaha! If I have done
anything too much or too little in this ceremony, may
the all- knowing and highly beneficent fire make it just
right and proper for me. Svaha!"
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The, putting his month to the child‟s right ear, he should
say thrice: "Speech! Speech!" Next he would mix
together curds, honey and clarified butter and feed the
child with a golden stick which is not placed inside the
month, saying these mantras: "I put the earth (Bhuh)
into you; I put the sky (Bhuvah) into you; I put heaven
(Svah) into you. The whole of earth, sky and heaven I
put into you."
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Then he (the father) gives him (the son) a name: „You
are the Veda (knowledge)." That is his secret name.
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Then he presents him to the mother to give him her
breast, uttering the mantra: "O Sarasvati, that breast of
thine which is fruitful, the sustainer of all, full of milk,
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