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  2. Jatakarma - Wikipedia

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    The first significance of the hymns is explained in Gryhasutra texts to be medhajanana (Sanskrit: मेधाजनन), or to initiate the baby's mind and intellect in the womb of the world after the baby's body formation has completed in the womb of the mother. The second part of the hymns wish the baby a long life. [6]

  3. Garbha Upanishad - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of Garbh Sanskar is to educate the child in the womb. It is believed that the education of moral, traditional and spiritual values begins right from the moment the foetus is conceived in the womb in Indian culture and, especially in Hinduism. Science has shown that babies in the womb will benefit from Garbhsanskar in early stages ...

  4. Samskara (rite of passage) - Wikipedia

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    The first significance of the hymns is medhajanana (Sanskrit: मेधाजनन), or to initiate the baby's mind and intellect in the womb of the world, after the baby's body formation has completed in the womb of the mother. The second part of the hymns wish the baby a long life.

  5. Periyachi - Wikipedia

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    Then, she killed the king using her weapons. At the same time, the queen also wanted to kill the baby, as she considered the child the death of her king, but Periyachi killed the queen, ripped out her stomach and ate her intestines, and saved the baby. Therefore, Periyachi was known as the protector of babies and expectant mothers.

  6. Novena - Wikipedia

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    Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Brazil A booklet of the novena to Sweetest Name of Mary, in Bikol and printed in Binondo, Manila dated 1867. A novena (from Latin: novem, "nine") is an ancient tradition of devotional praying in Christianity, consisting of private or public prayers repeated for nine successive days or weeks. [1]

  7. List of Roman birth and childhood deities - Wikipedia

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    Egeria, the nymph, received sacrifices from pregnant women in order to bring out (egerere) the baby. [50] Postverta and Prosa avert breech birth. [51] Diespiter (Jupiter) brings the baby toward the daylight. [52] Lucina introduces the baby to the light (lux, lucis). [53] Vagitanus or Vaticanus opens the newborn's mouth for its first cry. [54]

  8. Child dedication - Wikipedia

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    A child dedication or baby presentation is an act of consecration of children to God practiced in evangelical churches, such as those of the Baptist tradition. [1] [2]Child dedication is practiced by organisations, such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, in which parents promise to help their child live a life free from alcohol and other drugs.

  9. Shashthi - Wikipedia

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    Shashthi, Shashti, Soshthi or Chhathi (Sanskrit: षष्ठी, Bengali: ষষ্ঠী, Hindi: छठी, Ṣaṣṭhī, literally "sixth") is a Hindu goddess, venerated in Nepal and India as the benefactor and protector of children.