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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 .
[98] [99] While there are many rituals in Hinduism, vivaha (wedding) is the most extensive personal ritual an adult Hindu undertakes in his or her life. [ 100 ] [ 101 ] The wedding rites and ceremonies begin with the engagement of a couple, and extend to rites of passage after the completion of wedding.
This ritual is regionally found in India among male mourners, who shave their heads as a sign of bereavement. [7] Until a few decades ago, many Hindu communities, especially the upper castes, forced widows to undergo the ritual of tonsure and shun good clothes and ornaments, in order to make them unattractive to men.
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Other childhood rituals include the Chudakarana samskara, or head-shaving ceremony, which represents purity and removes all remnants of birth pollution. This event marks the end of infancy and the beginning of childhood. [38]
The soul (Atman, Brahman) is the essence and immortal that is released at the Antyeshti ritual, but both the body and the universe are vehicles and transitory in various schools of Hinduism. The human body and the universe consist of five elements in Hindu texts – air, water, fire, earth and space. [ 10 ]
Karnavedha (Sanskrit: कर्णवेध, Karṇavedha) or Karnavedham is one of the sixteen major samskaras (sacraments) known as "Shodasha Samskaras" of Hinduism.It is an ear piercing ceremony that is typically performed between the first and fifth years of life.
Yajna rituals-related texts have been called the Karma-kanda (ritual works) portion of the Vedic literature, in contrast to the Jnana-kanda (knowledge) portion found in the Vedic Upanishads. The proper completion of Yajna-like rituals was the focus of Mimansa school of Hindu philosophy . [ 3 ]