Alternative to Silver Bowl in Annaprashan Ritual: Annaprashan Sanskar is the ritual of feeding solid food to the baby for the first time, which is considered very auspicious in Hinduism ...

Here are pictures from his ‘annaprashan’, the rice-eating ceremony done in traditional Bengali style. It was a traditional Bengali ceremony where the parents and the entire family were all ...

Annaprashan is a Sanskrit word which literally means “grain initiation”, when babies feed of rice. It is variously referred to as mukhebhaat in Bengali, choroonu in Kerala and bhaatkhulai in ...

The ‘annaprashan’ is an important milestone in the Bengali Hindu culture, which is also called the ‘mukhebhat’ or ‘mamabhat’, where the child's maternal uncle or maternal grandfather ...