The Ceremony of Sacred Thread: A Study on Its Social Significance

This book contains material relating a significant sacrament-Upanayana from ancient Indian Dharmashastra sources. The important feature of this book is that it covers local custom and traditions prevalent in eastern part of India in general and Orissa in particular. It has some sort of specific horizon to focus interrelationship in the globe adhering to various religious communities in toto. Scholar’s as good as general people would be benefited by this book with its intrinsic analysis as well as study intermingled with indigenous data available with Vedas, Dharmashastra, Grihya Sutras, Puranas etc.