Note 81 — Chapter II
David Shea translation
अन्न प्राशन from Anna, “food,” and práśanna, “feeding” (Ward’s Vocabulary).—“In the sixth month, he should be fed with rice; or that may be done which, by the custom of the family, may be thought most propitious” (MS., p. 25).—For the goddess Anna Perenna of the Romans, the Anna-purna of the Hindus, from Anna, “race,” and purna, “to fill” (see As. Res., vol. VIII. p. 69. 85).