जातकर्मन्

Sanskrit

Etymology

जात (jāta, “birth”) +‎ कर्मन् (karman, “rite”)

Noun

जातकर्मन् • (jātakarman) stem, n

birth ceremony in which ghee is placed on the newborn's tongue three times with prayers (ŚāṅkhGṛ., Gṛhyās.)

References

Monier Williams (1899) “जातकर्मन्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0417.

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