संस्‍कृतशब्‍दकोशः

उपनयनम्

समीप ले जाना‚ गुरु की सेवा में लाना‚ विद्‍यार्थी का श्रुतिविहित यज्ञोपवीत संस्कार

introduction to any science, leading to a teacher, ceremony of sacred thread

पर्यायः : जनेऊ संस्कार
विवरणम् : उप + नी + ल्युट्

शब्‍दभेदः : नपुं.

शब्‍दकोश : प्रो. सूर्यकान्‍त संस्‍कृत हिन्‍दी अंग्रेजी कोश

उपनयनम्

हिन्दूधर्मानुसारेण षोडशसंस्कारेषु एकः यस्मिन् बालकः यज्ञोपवीतं धारयति।; "मम उपनयनम् नवमे वर्षे अभवत्।"

शब्‍दभेदः : noun

शब्‍दकोश : संस्‍कृतहिन्‍दी शब्‍दकोश

उपनयन

upanayana

{upa-nayana} n. the act of leading to or near, bringing R. BhP. Vikr##employment, application Car##introduction (into any science) Prab##leading or drawing towards one's self##that ceremony in which a Guru draws a boy towards himself and initiates him into one of the three twice-born classes (one of the twelve Saṃskāras or purificatory rites {prescribed in the ḍharma-sūtras and explained in the ṅṛihya-sūtras} in which the boy is invested with the sacred thread {different for the three castes} and thus endowed with second or spiritual birth and qualified to learn the Veda by heart##a Brāhman is initiated in the eighth year [or seventh according to Hiranyakeśin##or eighth from conception, according to Śāṅkhāyana &c.], a Kshatriya in the eleventh, a Vaiśya in the twelfth##but the term could be delayed)##IW. p. 201 RTL. p. 360 seqq. ĀśvGṛ. i, 19-22 ŚāṅkhGṛ. ii, 1-6 PārGṛ. ii, 2-5 Gobh. ii, 10 HirGṛ. i, 1 seqq. Mn. ii, 36 Yājñ. i, 14

शब्‍दकोश : मोनियर विलियम्‍स शब्‍दकोश