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(6) Priyodbhava: It consists in worship, etc., at the birth of a child.
(7) Namakarma: The child should be given a name on any auspicious day after twelve days from its birth. It should be done with due worship and the name should be one from the 1008 names of Jina.
(8) Bahiryana: After two, three or four months the child should be taken out of the house on a convenient auspicious day.
(9) Nishadya: Then the child should be made to sit after duly performing the worship.
(10) Annaprasana: It is feeding the child after doing worship in the eighth month or so.
(11) Vyushti: It is the first anniversary to be performed with worship as usual and with fasts.
(12) Kesavā pa: It is the ceremony of keeping hairs after shaving for the first time.
(13) Lipisankhyānasangraha: It means that in the fifth year the child should be taught to write at the hands of a learned layman after performing worship.
(14) Upanīti: It is the initiation ceremony and it is performed in a Jaina temple in the eighth year of the child. After this the child wears the sacred thread as a sign of having taken the five small vows and is known as a Brahmachārī or a celibate. Now he has to maintain himself on begging alms.
(15) Vratacharya: Leading a strict celibate and single life, the boy should keep the vows and should study various subjects from his teacher.
(16) Vratavatarana: It is to be performed in the 12th or 16th year after completing his studies. The boy should take leave of his preceptor and adopt any of the prescribed ways of livelihood. Now he need not be very strict in his life but will have to maintain celibacy till he gets married.
(17) Vivaha: On the advice of the teacher, the boy should be married to a girl from a good family in accordance
