Note 156 — Chapter I
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A ceremony called the Shashthi-Karma is performed on the sixth day after the birth of a child, and the Nāmkaran ceremony—the ceremony of giving a name—on the twelfth day. The mother of the child is sometimes not allowed to see the sun before the completion of these ceremonies.156 Occasionally, on the eleventh day after child-birth, the mother is made to take a bath in the sun.157