संस्‍कृत हिन्‍दी अंग्रेजी शब्‍दकोश : उपनयन

Monier–Williams

उपनयन — {upa-nayana} n. the act of leading to or near, bringing R. BhP. Vikr##employment, application Car##introduction (into any science) Prab##leading or drawing towards one's self##that ceremony in which a Guru draws a boy towards himself and initiates him into one of the three twice-born classes (one of the twelve Saṃskāras or purificatory rites {prescribed in the ḍharma-sūtras and explained in the ṅṛihya-sūtras} in which the boy is invested with the sacred thread {different for the three castes} and thus endowed with second or spiritual birth and qualified to learn the Veda by heart##a Brāhman is initiated in the eighth year [or seventh according to Hiranyakeśin##or eighth from conception, according to Śāṅkhāyana &c.], a Kshatriya in the eleventh, a Vaiśya in the twelfth##but the term could be delayed)##IW. p. 201 RTL. p. 360 seqq. ĀśvGṛ. i, 19-22 ŚāṅkhGṛ. ii, 1-6 PārGṛ. ii, 2-5 Gobh. ii, 10 HirGṛ. i, 1 seqq. Mn. ii, 36 Yājñ. i, 14

इन्हें भी देखें : उपनयनचिन्तामणि; उपनयनलक्षण; आचार्यः; सावित्री-संस्कारः; दीक्षा; यज्ञोपवीतम्, यज्ञोपवीतकम्, उपवीतम्, यज्ञसूत्रम्, पवित्रम्, ब्रह्मसूत्रम्, द्विजायनी; द्विजः; उपनयनम्;