उपनयन

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

   See : उपनयन संस्कार

A dictionary, Marathi and English

   upanayana n S Initiation of the three first classes; investiture with a thread or cord to be worn over the left shoulder and under the right. The cord of the Bráhman is of cotton or of munja or Kusha grass; of the Kshatriya, of flax; of the Vyshya, of wool.

Aryabhushan School Dictionary

 n   Thread ceremony, vestiture with the sacred thread of the first three classes.

मराठी पर्यायी शब्दकोश

 ना.  मुंज , मौंजीबंधन , व्रतबंध .

महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश

  न. ( गुरु ) जवळ नेणें ; व्रतबंध ; प्रथम यज्ञोपवीत धारण करण्याचा विधि ; मौजीबंधन ; जानवें घालणें ; मुंज ; त्रैवर्णिकांस आठव्यावर्षीं वेदाधिकारास योग्य करण्यासाठीं हा संस्कार करतात ; सोळा संस्कारांपैकीं एक . या उपरी उपनयन । गुरुद्वारां गायत्रीग्रहण । - एभा १७ . २७१ . [ सं . उप = जवळ + नी = नेणें ]

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

उप-नयन  n.  n. the act of leading to or near, bringing, [R.]; [BhP.]; [Vikr.]

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उप नयन

   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 संस्कारs or purificatory rites [prescribed in the धर्म- सूत्रs and explained in the गृह्य- सूत्रs] 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 वेद by heart; a Brāhman is initiated in the eighth year [or seventh according to हिरण्यकेशिन्; or eighth from conception, according to शाङ्खायन &c.], a क्षत्रिय in the eleventh, a वैश्य in the twelfth; but the term could be delayed)
   See, [IW.] p.201 [RTL. p.360seqq.]; [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.]

Shabda-Sagara

उपनयन  n.  ( -नं) See the preceding.
    E. As before, affix ल्युट्; also with अण् added उपनायन.

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ल्युट्; अण् उपनायन