जातकर्मन्
Sanskrit edit
Etymology edit
जात (jāta, “birth”) + कर्मन् (karman, “rite”)
Noun edit
जातकर्मन् • (jātakarman) stem, n
- birth ceremony in which ghee is placed on the newborn's tongue three times with prayers (ŚāṅkhGṛ., Gṛhyās.)
References edit
- Monier Williams (1899) “जातकर्मन्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0417.