On the sixth day, the image of the goddess _Shasthi_ is worshipped in front of the room where the child was born, because she is the protectress of all children. The Poojah is called the _Seytayra_ Poojah (worship). Offerings of rice, plantain, sweetmeat, clothes, milk, &c, are presented to the goddess by the officiating priest, and the following articles are kept in her room for the _Bidhata Pooroosh_ (god of fate) in order that he may note down unseen on the forehead of the child its future destiny, _viz._, a palm leaf, a Bengalee pen with ink, a serpent's skin, a brick from the temple of the god Shiva, and two kinds of fruits, _atmora_ and _veyla_, a little wool, gold and silver. On the eighth day is held the ceremony of _Autcowroy_, or the distribution of eight kinds of parched peas, rice, sweetmeats, with cowries and pice, amongst the children of the house and neighbourhood. On the evening of that day, the children assemble and with a _Koolo_ (winnowing fan) going up three times to the door of the room beat it (the koolo) with small sticks, asking at the same in a chorus "as to how the child is doing," and shouting, "let it rest in peace on the lap of its mother." These juvenile ceremonies, if ceremonies they can be called, give infinite delight to the children, who are sometimes prompted by the adult members of the family to indulge in jocularity by way of abusing the father, not of course to irritate but to amuse him. At the birth of a female child, in common with the depreciation in which it is held, this ceremony is observed on a very poor scale. On the thirty-first day after the birth, the ceremony of _Shasthi_ Poojah is again performed. Hence a woman who has had as many as twelve or fifteen or more children, is called the _Shasthi Booree_, or "the old woman of Shasthi." Before a twig of a _Bata_ tree, the priest, while repeating the usual incantation, presents offerings of rice, fruits, sweetmeats, cloths, parched peas and rice, oil, turmeric, betel, betel-nuts, two eggs of a duck, and twenty-one small wicker baskets filled with _khoyee_ (parched rice) plantain and _batasa_, which are all given to a number of women whose husbands are alive. It is on this occasion that the priest is also required to perform the worship of the goddess _Soobachinee_,[11] said to be one of the forms of the goddess Doorga. When the father first goes to see the child, he puts some gold coin into its hand and pours his benediction on its head. Other relatives who may be present at the time do the same.