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The rite is performed as a special ceremony in most homes, for young girls and boys. At Rishikesh, on the banks of the Ganges, there is a special chudakarana or mundana samskara. In this ceremony, along with cutting and shaving hair, Vedic mantras and prayers are chanted by trained priests, acharyas and rishikumaras.
samskara in Hindu traditions, states Kane, have been ceremonies, expressing outward symbols or signs of inner change, marking life events of significance. They served a spiritual, cultural and psychological purpose, welcoming an individual into a stage of life, conferring privileges to the individual(s), expecting duties from the individual ...
A rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another. It involves a significant change of status in society . In cultural anthropology the term is the Anglicisation of rite de passage , a French term innovated by the ethnographer Arnold van Gennep in his work Les rites de ...
Traditionally, Hindu men shave off all their hair as a child in a samskāra or ritual known as the chudakarana. [13] A lock of hair is left at the crown (). [14]Unlike most other eastern cultures where a coming-of-age ceremony removed childhood locks of hair similar to the shikha, in India, this prepubescent hairstyle is left to grow throughout the man's life, though usually only the most ...
A life cycle ritual is a ceremony to mark a change in a person's biological or social status at various phases throughout life. [1] Such practices are found in many societies and are often based on traditions of a community. [1] Life cycle rituals may also have religious significance that is stemmed from different ideals and beliefs. [1]
In the structure and practice of puja, the mantras and rituals focus on spirituality, and any petitions and appeals are tacked only to the end of the puja. [23] Zimmer [24] relates puja to yantras, with the rituals helping the devotee focus on the spiritual concepts. Puja in Hinduism, writes Zimmer, is a path and process of transformation of ...
Ritu Kala Samskaram, or Ritushuddhi, is a female coming-of-age ritual in South Indian Hindu traditions. The ritual is performed when a girl wears a langa voni for the first time. The event is also known as Langa Voni ( Telugu : లంగా ఓణి), Pavadai Dhavani ( Tamil : பாவாடை தாவணி), and Langa Davani ( Kannada ...
The Kalpa field of study traces its roots to the Brahmana layer of texts in the Vedas, [10] however its texts are more focussed, clear, short and practical for ceremonies. [8] [11] Kalpa Sutras are related to the Karma kanda, or ritual parts of the Veda, in contrast to the Upanishads which are the Jnana kanda, or the knowledge part.