Mundan in Rajgir (मुंडन)
the first tonsure, kept in the child’s first or third year
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- ₹2,499
Packages and prices in Rajgir
| Basic | ₹2,499 |
|---|---|
| Standard | ₹2,899 |
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What the price is made of
- 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
- What BookMyPandiit charges to run the platform. It is a line of its own: it is never taken out of the pandit's fee and never presented as dakshina.
- 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 Rajgir
Rajgir is a pilgrimage town for three traditions at once and a small residential one underneath. Rites for visitors are kept at the kunds and at the hill shrines; rites for the town's own households are kept at home, in Magahi, on the Magadh calendar.
The hot springs are the town's ritual centre, and bathing there is a step in a rite rather than an amenity. The Malamas fair in the intercalary month is the one period when the site is too full to plan anything around.
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