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Keshanta (Sanskrit:केशान्त,Keśānta) (literally, cutting the hair) is the thirteenth of the sixteensaṃskāras (sacraments) practiced by theHindus. Thissaṃskāra is connected with the first shaving of a student's beard when his age is about 16 years. The procedure of thissaṃskāra is almost the same as that of theChudakarana. Thissaṃskāra was also known as theGodana (giving a cow) or theGodanakarman (rite of giving a cow), as the student offered a cow to the teacher at the end of the ceremony.[1] According to theManusmriti (II.65), thissaṃskāra should be performed for aBrahmin in the sixteenth year (from conception), for aKshatriya in the twenty-second year and for aVaishya in the twenty-fourth year.[2]
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