the barber’s wife receives the blankets as her perquisite, and a small money present. This done, the father is considered pure, and he is allowed to come out, shave, and bathe. Then he returns to the square, where he worships a small brass or gold image of Vishnu. Near him is placed a brass saucer (katori) which is filled with ghi from a black cow. The ghi is melted until it becomes quite thin. The saucer is placed before the father, who keeps his eyes fixed upon it. The mother comes up from behind with the child in her arms, and she holds the baby so that the father may see its image reflected in the ghi. After this the child is seated in his lap, and he makes it a present in money. In case the child is born in Mûl, the twelfth day rite is postponed, and carried out with the observance on the twenty-seventh day. The ceremony ends with the feeding of twenty-seven Brâhmans, and the presenting of gifts to the friends and relatives who have attended the ceremony. [Dolarohana.] 18. In the families of learned Brâhmans, such as Pandits, when the child is two months old it is dressed in a new cap and coat and placed in a swing (hindola). Up to that time it remains on a bed. This rite is known as dola rohana. On that day the family god is worshipped, and rich food (pûri, bakhîr) is cooked for the household. [Vâhir nisarana.] 19. Pandits have also another rite known as “the bringing out,” vâhirnisarana. The usual custom is that the child is not brought out of the house until “the grain feeding,” annaprâsana. But if it is desired to bring the child out before it is fed on grain, he performs this rite. The baby is dressed in a new coat and cap of blue cloth, the colour of the sky. These clothes are first dedicated at the house shrine (diukari), and then the child’s forehead is marked with lamp-black (kâjal) and a necklace of holy seeds (bajarbatta) and tiger’s claws (baghnaha) tied round its throat. All these are devices to repel the Evil Eye. It is then brought out; but as an additional precaution a black piece of cloth, a colour which frightens evil spirits, is hung round its neck, or at any rate the coat is bound with black braid. In former times this bringing of the child into the open air was known as the nishkramana.