February 17
MUNDAN CEREMONY
The mundan ceremony is a Hindu rite, or sanskara, in which a boy receives his first haircut. This sanskara is performed typically during the first year of age when the child’s hair is shaved. In Hindu tradition, the hair from birth is associated with undesirable traits from past lives. Thus at the time of the mundan, the child is freshly shaved to signify freedom from the past and moving into the future.
