Dear Mr & Mrs. Venbakkam, I hope this helps - The word Upanayanam can be split into Upa and Nayanam. Upa means near and nayanam means going - that is the act of going to a teacher to learn. Grihyasutras prescribe the age for Upanayanam as eight years old at "GarbhaashTamam"(1 + 7 ) - which includes the period spent in the womb of the mother - that is Garbha vasam. So it is 7 years.The reason why the sutras prescribe the age for a Kshatriya at 11 and a Vaishya as 12 must be because in the ancient times the father was the guru in Brahmin household whereas the Kshatriya and Vaishya children had to leave home for their education , they could leave their house only when they were capable of taking care of themselves. I also read that Upanayanam is usually performed at the age of seven because till that age a child gets the benefits of the karmas of its parents and after that age it has to learn and perform karmas on its own. Srimathi Venkatachari Raghavan --- Vijay & Lalitha Venbakkam <vijaylalli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Respected Bhagavatas: > > I'd. like to find out if there's an appropriate age > for performing Upanayanam & Brahmopadesam, for > Srivaishnava brahmachari's. Kindly advise. I have > heard the term "ottrai padai" (meaning only during > 'odd' years) mention by some friends and I wanted to > clarify if that's applicable for Srivaishnavas also. > > > Thank you. > > Dasan, > Vijayaraghavan. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Would you Help a Child in need? It is easier than you think. Click Here to meet a Child you can help. http://us.click.yahoo.com/O2aXmA/I_qJAA/i1hLAA/VkWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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