Education in Ancient India c14.s2.9

c14.s2.9

dog or a jackal.¹ And if the holy Brahmana can be rendered holier by this Sanskāra, why should it fail to perform a similar miracle in the case of other inanimate objects? In medieval times the custom therefore arose of performing this ceremony over the holy Pippal tree in order to make it holier.² All these, however, are later anomalies that crept into society when the original purpose of Upanayana was being gradually forgotten.