Monday, May 11, 2009

My daughter's naming ceremony

It was a very special occasion for me yesterday. My baby's naming ceremony was held yesterday at Mysore.

At the beginning, we performed Ayushya homa. Ayushya homa is performed to pray to Lord Mrityunjaya (Rudra deva) to give long life to the person. It was Markhandaya rishi who originated this homa for longitivity of life. It involved offering ghee, sammit and rice to Agni deva, who will make sure to deliver the offerings to respective gods. Probably, Agni deva is the first known person who started the courier service ;-)

Then we performed Jatakarma homa. Jatakarma homa is again performed for a reason. When the child is in the mother's womb, it would have swallowed unwanted substances. Jatakarma is performed to purify the body of the child. This also includes purifying the pancha Indriyas. I took out my ring, dipped it in honey and made my baby lick the honey. I hope this will please the gods :-). Also this would make baby's life as sweet as honey :-).

Then the naming ceremony started. Her sweet and short name was finally revealed to everyone. And it's "Sampada", cute isnt it. This name is my wife's choice. Though I had a different name in mind, my wife scored over me. No regrets for me. I really love this name. For those of you, who are thinking what Sampada means, "Wealth", "Wealthy" or "Fortunate". Abhimani devate (owner) for this name is goddess Laxmi. Her janma nama or the name as per her nakshatra is "Tejaswini". That’s the name chosen by me and not by my wife. So I win here :-).

Take a look at these web links

http://www.mybabyname.com/baby-name-full-detail/sampada/21129/1
http://www.smellypiggies.com/baby/name/meaning/Sampada
http://www.namepedia.org/en/firstname/Sampada/
http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/meaning_of_Sampada.html

Finally we performed "Annaprashana". Here again, before the child actually starts eating food other than milk, we have to again pray to god to give strength and knowledge by eating satvik food. We got a cup of "kheer" or "payasam" in a silver cup. I again took out my ring and dipped in kheer and made my baby taste the kheer. So she is all set to eat all the pani puri, bhel puri or masale dosa in DVG road. :-)

That was how the ceremony went. I loved every bit of it.

10 comments:

VidyaShankar Harapanahalli said...

Nice Name Sripathi.

Congrats again. Let when you daughter is back to Bangalore. We will visit you.

Madhukar Hebbar said...

Nice name mate.

Thanks for telling the significance of the rituals also. Nice article :-)

Unknown said...

beautiful name !!
both Tejaswini and Sampada.
good choice..

Kiran said...

Hi,
Congrats. Good name. but with the name one has to know the quality of the name. so it is your duty as father to give her the knowledge when she comes right age to understand that always Name must represent that quality. Name & its quality must not follow diferent directions.

Shruthi said...

Nice name sripathi.

Sudhakar said...

Nice Name Sripathi,

Raghu said...

Yes, Cute name sir...

Atmaram said...

Nice name Srips

Shetty said...

Congrads mate, nice name. And thanks for the details

Critic said...

Thanks to everyone for your comments.