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In the Śvētāmbara school, 16 samskaras similar to the Hindu rites of passage are described, for example, in the Acara-Dinakara of Vardhamana. [117] [120] It includes rituals described above, such as those associated with conception, birth, name giving, ear piercing, baby's first haircut, studentship, wedding and death. [117]
Pumsavana Simantonayana (Sanskrit: पुंसवन सीमन्तोन्नयन, romanized: Puṃsavana Sīmantonnayana) is a combined performance of the ...
Garbhadhana (Sanskrit: गर्भाधान, Garbhādhāna) (literally: attaining the wealth of the womb) is the first of the 16 saṃskāras (sacraments, rites of passage) in Hinduism. [ 1 ] Description
According to the Paraskara Gryha Sutra, at the beginning of the ceremony, the pregnant wife seats on a soft chair and with caressing attention, the husband himself parts her hairs upwards from the forehead three times, first with a bunch containing an even number of unripe udumbara (Ficus racemosa) fruits and three bunches of darbha grass, next with a porcupines quill having three white spots ...
[15] [16] [17] Lise McKean states the guru concept has been prevalent over the range of class and caste backgrounds, and the disciples a guru attracts come from both genders and a range of classes and castes. [18] During the bhakti movement of Hinduism, which started in about mid 1st millennium CE, the gurus included women and members of all varna.
The Chudakarana (Sanskrit: चूडाकरण, lit. ' arrangement of the hair tuft ') or the Mundana (Sanskrit: मुण्डन, lit. ' tonsure '), is the eighth of the sixteen Hindu saṃskāras (sacraments), in which a child receives their first haircut.
Nishkramana (Sanskrit: निष्क्रमण, Niṣkramaṇa) (literally, first outing) is the sixth of the 16 saṃskāras (sacraments) practiced by the Hindus.On the day of the Nishkramana, a square area in the courtyard from where sun can be seen is plastered with cow dung and clay and the sign of svastika is marked on it.
Pumsavana is one of the 16 samskara in Hinduism, which are rites of deciding the gender of the fetus in early stages of a woman's pregnancy (third or fourth month), early steps for his welcome into the world in the presence of friends and family, then various stages of life such as first learning day, graduation from school, wedding and ...