Mundan in Darbhanga (मुंडन)
the first tonsure, kept in the child’s first or third year
One verified pandit serves Darbhanga. He is named, with the checks he has completed, before any payment is made.
- From
- ₹2,499
- Pandits available
- 1
Available pandits in Darbhanga
Packages and prices in Darbhanga
| Basic | ₹2,499 |
|---|---|
| Standard | ₹2,899 |
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- Pandit fee
- Paid to the named pandit who performs the ritual.
- Samagri
- The items the ritual needs, itemised when the package includes them.
- Travel
- The pandit's travel to the address you give, by distance band.
- Platform fee
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- Temple charge
- Charged by the temple when the ritual is performed there, and only then.
- GST
- Tax charged as the law requires, shown separately.
- Duration
- 90 min
- Pandits
- 1
- Venue
- home, temple
- Samagri included
- yes
About Mundan
Mundan is the first cutting of a child's hair, kept in the first or third year and always in an odd-numbered one. The rite itself is short: a sankalp, a Ganesh puja, the first lock cut by the maternal uncle or the father, and the rest by a barber.
The hair is not discarded. It is offered — into a river, at a temple, or buried — and many families keep the rite at a particular shrine because that is where the family before them kept it. An hour and a half, at home or at a temple, and the date is fixed on a muhurat rather than on a weekend.
Keeping a rite in Darbhanga
Darbhanga keeps Mithila's own ritual tradition, which is a distinct school rather than a local accent: its own manuals, its own commentators, and its own order of days at a wedding. A family from outside the region will find the sequence unfamiliar, and a local pandit will assume the Maithila one unless told otherwise.
Marriages here are still arranged against the Panji genealogical registers, which adds a step before the muhurat is fixed rather than after. Most rites are kept at home; the temple visit that follows is usually to Shyama Mai.
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