Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c10.s2.41
Early History of the Vaiṣṇava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c10.s2.41
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The Cūḍā-karaṇa (ceremony of tonsure) is to be performed in the first, third or fifth year according to the custom of the family. The fire required in it is named Satya. It includes the ceremonies of fetching a barber, looking at a glass, tonsuring with a razor, placing the hair on cow-dung and throwing the whole in a forest or fastening it to the branch of a bamboo, and lastly, the ceremony of piercing the ear to receive ear-rings (Karṇa-vedhana).