Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c12.s7.t4.3

c12.s7.t4.3

Then various ceremonies were performed when at appropriate occasions the child started babbling (parangāmana), and walking (cankamana), when he had the first taste of solid food (jemāmana), when the first intelligible words came out from his mouth (pajappāvana), and when his ears were bored (kannavedha) Then there was birth ceremony (samvaccharapaḍilakkhana), tonsure ceremony (colopana), sacred thread ceremony (upanayana) and ceremony of learning the alphabets (kalāgahana) 35