Description

This samskara is performed on the birth of the child. It is said to be performed when cutting the navel string of the new born baby from that of his mother. While in his/her mother’s womb environment there is totally different. The baby does not eat or breathe through his own mouth and nose. Food reaches the baby through umbilical cord and the baby is wrapped in a pouch filled with water.

For this divine and newly born child who has experienced this world for the first time the father of the baby feeds the child with a mixture of sugar, honey and ghee. All these elements are not served equally. Two drops of ghee and six drops of sugar and honey (shahad) is fed with a golden stick chanting special vedic mantra. Thereafter, the father of the new born baby performs a yagna and whispers in the baby’s ear “Your secret name is Ved” then the father cuts the navel string and blesses him: