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## Hair-Cutting Ceremony (Kshaura-Vidhi)
**398**
**Composed by Soumasena Bhattaraka**
**Hair-Cutting Ceremony:** After the cremation of the body, the performer, the cremator, and the relatives should perform the hair-cutting ceremony (mundan) as appropriate.
**161**
The mother, father, paternal uncle (pitruvya), maternal uncle (matul), elder brother, father-in-law, family guru, wives of all these, father's sister (bhuā), mother's sister (mausi), and elder sister, if any of them die, the hair-cutting ceremony should be performed.
**162**
If any of these die at the time of the death, the hair-cutting ceremony should be performed at that time.
**163**
If the death is heard before a month, the hair-cutting ceremony should be performed when the news is heard.
**164**
If the death is heard after a month, the hair-cutting ceremony should not be performed for anyone except the mother, father, elder brother, family guru, and father-in-law.
**161-164**
## Bathing Ceremony (Snana-Vidhi)
**165**
Then, after entering the water up to the waist, with clothes on, one should immerse oneself three times and bathe properly.
**166**
After coming out of the water, one should squeeze the clothes on the bank, put them in a proper place, perform Achaman (ritual rinsing of the mouth), and then perform Pranayama (breathing exercises) with mantras.
**165-166**
## Stone Installation and Village Entry
**167**
Then, for the deceased, who has attained the three jewels (ratnatraya), whose body has perished, who has attained the state of renunciation (sanyasa), meditation (samadhi), and liberation (moksha),
**168**
who has attained the highest heaven (utkrusht paraloak), and for the sake of their well-being, out of love for Dharma (dharmavatsalya), and out of love for the moon (indhuvatsalya),
**169**
one should install a stone in the mandapa (hall) or elsewhere, for the sake of the reflection of the body, on the bank, for offering pindas (food offerings) etc.