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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
[Ādi-līlā, Ch. 13]
Jagannātha Miśra;  sammāni' —congratulating;  śacī —Śacīdevī;  miśrera —Jagannātha Miśra;  pūjā —honor;  lañā —receiving;  manete —within the mind;  hariṣa —pleased;  hañā —becoming;  ghare —home;  āilā —returned;  sītā thākurāṇī —mother Śītā, wife of Advaita Ācārya.
TRANSLATION
On the day the mother and son took bath and left the maternity home, Śītā Thākurāṇī gave them all kinds of ornaments and garments and then also honored Jagannātha Miśra. Then Śītā Thākurāṇī, being honored by mother Śacīdevī and Jagannātha Miśra, was greatly happy within her mind, and thus she returned home.
PURPORT
On the fifth day from the birth of a child, as also on the ninth day, the mother takes bath either in the Ganges or in a sacred place. This is called  niṣkrāmaṇa , or the ceremony of coming out of the maternity home. Nowadays the maternity home is a hospital, but formerly in every respectable house one room was set aside as a maternity home where children would take birth, and on the ninth day after the birth of a child the mother would come into the regular rooms in the ceremony called  niṣkrāmaṇa . Of the ten purificatory processes,  niṣkrāmaṇa  is one. Formerly, especially in Bengal, the higher castes observed four months after the birth of a child as a quarantine. At the end of the fourth month, the mother first had to see the sun rise. Later the higher castes, namely, the  brāhmaṇas ,  kṣatriyas  and  vaiśyas , observed only twenty-one days as a quarantine, whereas the  śūdras  had to observe thirty days. For the sections of society known as  kartābhajā  and  satīmā , the mother of the child was immediately purified after the quarantine by the throwing of  hari-nuṭa , small pieces of sweetmeat, in  saṅkīrtana . Śacīdevī and Jagannātha Miśra, with the newly born child, were honored by Śītā Thākurāṇī. Similarly, while Śītā Thākurāṇī was returning home, she was also honored by Śacīdevī and Jagannātha Miśra. That was the system in respectable families of Bengal.
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ঐছে শচী-জগন্নাথ,      পুত্র পাঞ্জা লক্ষ্মীনাথ, 
    পুর্ণ হইল সকল বাঞ্ছিত। 
    ধন-খান্ত্রে ভরে ঘর,      লোকমাল্ক কলেবর, 
    দিনে দিনে হয় আনন্দিত ॥ ১১৯ ॥
aiche śacī-jagannātha, putra pāñā lakṣmīnātha, 
    pūrṇa ha-ila sakala vāñchita 
    dhana-dhānye bhare ghara, lakamānya kalevara, 
    dine dine haya ānandita