Vedic culture has been full with rituals, in which, there was a definite chronology and process of performing various rituals right from the birth of a child, yagyopaveet, marriage, up to the death of an individual by chanting mantras and shlokas. An individual had to perform 16 rituals from birth until death. This was an essential part of a person’s life. A majority of rituals were performed with the chanting of mantras along with yagya/yajna. The importance of these rituals can be understood by the fact that even after the lapse of a long time period, these rituals are being performed by Hindu families even today.
