122 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Adi-lila, Ch. 13

Jagannatha Misra; sammdni’—congratulating; soc7—Sacidevi; misrera—Jagannatha
Misra; pa@ja@—honor; /afid—receiving; manete—within the mind; harisa—pleased; hafid—
becoming; ghare—home; di/a—returned; std thakurapi—mother Sita, wife of Advaita
Acarya.

TRANSLATION

On the day the mother and son took bath and left the maternity home, Sita
Thakurani gave them all kinds of ornaments and garments and then also honored
Jagannatha Misra. Then Sita Thakurani, being honored by mother Sacidevi and
Jagannatha Misra, was greatly happy within her mind, and thus she returned home.

PURPORT

On the fifth day from the birth of a child, as afso on the ninth day, the mother
takes bath either in the Ganges or in a sacred place. This is called mskramana, 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
cailed niskramana. Of the ten purificatory processes, niskrdmana 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 bra@hmanas, ksatriyas and vaisyas,
observed only twenty-one days as a quarantine, whereas the Sidras had to observe
thirty days. For the sections of society known as kartabhaja and satima, the mother
of the child was immediately purified after the quarantine by the throwing of harf-
nuta, small pieces of sweetmeat, in safkirtana. Sacidevi and Jagannatha Misra, with
the newly born child, were honored by Sita Thakurani. Similarfy, while Sita
Thakurani was returning home, she was also honored by Sacidevi and Jagannatha
Misra. That was the system in respectable families of Bengal.

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aiche Saci-jaganndétha, putra pana laksminétha,
parna ha-ila sakala varichita

dhana-dhanye bhare ghara, fokamdanya kalevara,
dine dine haya anandita
