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Thirty Dining Rules Hinduism

1.Food is to be taken in a Plantain Leaf, with its tapering part(shorter end) intact.

2.One should face either the East or the North. Facing East will bring all that is Good including Longevity; North Wealth.

3.The Plantain leaf is to be placed with its tapering end at the left side of the Diner.

4.The leaf should be sprinkled with water, which should be placed at the left hand side of the Diner, and cleaned with the right hand by the Diner.

5.No conversation is allowed during the Meal.

6.Water should not be drunk during the Meal, except when one has hiccups; it can be drunk after Meal.

7.Payasa or Sweet Porridge is to be served first on the right hand bottom corner of the Leaf.

8.Items to be served from the top right hand corner (directions from the view of the Diner), in the following order.

Pachadi/Salad

Curry,

Kootu,

Avial,

Pickles,and table salt at the top left hand corner of the Plantain Leaf.

9.Cooked Dal at the left hand side of the leaf by the side of Payasa.

10.Cooked Rice.

12.Ghee.

13.After Parishajana Sambar.

14.Papad.

15,Second helping of dishes.

16.After Sambar Rice is over, Rice and Rasam is to be served.

17.Then Payasam.

18.Special sweets. if any and Mixed Rice like Puliyodarai, Coconut Rice.

19.Rice followed by Curds or Butter Milk.

20, The food is to be served neither more nor less.

21.If one needs more, it should be indicated by gestures touching the place it has been served.

22.If one has enough, it has to be indicated by lifting the left palm at the face height.

23.The Diner must complete the Parishajana after food is fully consumed.

Ayush Homa First Birth Day Hinduism Details

No Karma or ceremony is performed for the child(excepting the naming of the child,Karna Bhushana, ear-piercing ceremony) till the child completes its first anniversary.

No Tilak or even God's Prasad Vibhuti or Kumkum is to be applied, save for applying Vibhuti/Kumkum on rare occasions, as when the child had fallen sick seriously .

This Ceremony is performed on the completion of the first year of birth of the child, calculated on the basis of the Hindu Calendar.

English Calendar does not apply.

On the Janma Nakshatra, the Nakshatra of the day of the month in which the child is born , The Ayush Homa is celebrated,

In case the Janma Nakshatra falls on two days in a month(all according to Hindu Calendar). the Ayush Homa is to be done on the later day when the Nakshatra falls.

There is no specific Lagna to be fixed for the function.

Rahu Kala, Yama Kanda are to be avoided( there are two views on Yama Kanda, general view is that it is to be avoided, but Yama Kandaka means this Time is Yama or Death, to the Time itself i.e. auspicious.)

However it is advisable that the function is kept in the Sukra Horai, which occurs after the Sunrise and it varies for each day of the week.

I shall be posting On Horais.

Following Pujas, Homa is performed for the Ayush Homa.

1.Ganapathy Puja.

2. Kalasa Puja when the Sri Rudra, Chamaka is chanted.

3.Ayush Homa, when the Ayushya Suktam is chanted 108 times (36x3 times)

4.Nakshatra Homa for all the Nakshatra Devatas.

5.Mrityunjaya Mantra is chanted with Ahutis.

Following are the Materials needed.

1.Turmeric Powder. one small pocket.