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1. Garbhadana Samskara – is performed by a married couple when conceiving a
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 child. This important Samskara raises the act of conception to a sacred occasion, and default.)
is powerfully purifying and uplifting for the unborn child. Example:
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2. Pumsavana Samskara – is usually performed between the second and fourth
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month of pregnancy. Its purpose is: to insure the good health of the foetus and the
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proper formation of its organs, so that the family line and tradition will perpetuate
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thorugh the baby.

3. Simantonoyana Samskara – In the fourth or fth month of pregnancy, the mind of

the foetus begins to develop. This is when simantonoyana Samskara is performed. Its
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in uences, and also to stimulate the development of the unborn child’s intellect.

4. Jatakarma Samskara is the ritual performed at the birth of a child noting the birth
time and star and thus create a birth chart which is suppose to be the blue print of
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5. Namakarana Samskara – On the eleventh day after the child’s birth, namakarana
Samskara is performed. In this ceremony, the child receives its name.

6. Nishkramana Samskara – The baby’s rst outing into the world, beyond the
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7. Annaprashana – The rst feeding of solid food to the baby, usually in the sixth for iOS and Android
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birth, consists of the piercing of the baby’s ear lobes, so earrings may be worn.

9. Chudakarana Samskara – At the end of the rst year after birth, or during the
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third year, the child’s hair is shaved–all but a tuft on the top of the head. This ritual
shaving of hair, performed with ceremony, prayers, and chanting of Vedic hymns, is
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chudakarana Samskara This Samskara is for both boys and girls.

10. Vidyarambha Samskara – begins a student’s primary education by ceremonially

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11. Upanayana Samskara – initiates the formal study of the Vedas. It is one of the religious leader having
most important and esteemed of the samskaras. Upon performance of Upanayana, a so much direct contact
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boy traditionally moves from home to live in the ashram of the guru.
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12. Samavartana Samskara – With samavartana Samskara the disciple graduates born in love, to live in
from his Vedic studies and returns from the house of his guru. Thereafter, the love, and to eventually
disciple will marry and raise a family, and so enter the stage of householder, end in love

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13. Vivaha Samskara – The traditional Hindu wedding ceremony is known as vivaha
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14. Panchamahayagna Samskara – A married couple performs the
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