| Nirṇayasindhu, by quoting Smrtis, says that Shudras are entitled to perform six Samskaras, viz. Jatakarma, Namakaranam, Niskramanam (bringing the child into sunshine for the first time), Annaprasanam, Chuda and Vivaha and the daily Panchamahayajnas (Devayajñaḥ, Pitṛyajñaḥ, Bhūtayajñaḥ, Manuṣyayajñaḥ and Brahmayajñaḥ). Shraddhakarma (death ceremony) and other Samskaras for Shudras have to be performed with verses from Puranas and not Vedic mantras. Varahapurana says that for a Shudra, the Brahmana can repeat the Mantras. | | Nirṇayasindhu, by quoting Smrtis, says that Shudras are entitled to perform six Samskaras, viz. Jatakarma, Namakaranam, Niskramanam (bringing the child into sunshine for the first time), Annaprasanam, Chuda and Vivaha and the daily Panchamahayajnas (Devayajñaḥ, Pitṛyajñaḥ, Bhūtayajñaḥ, Manuṣyayajñaḥ and Brahmayajñaḥ). Shraddhakarma (death ceremony) and other Samskaras for Shudras have to be performed with verses from Puranas and not Vedic mantras. Varahapurana says that for a Shudra, the Brahmana can repeat the Mantras. |
| + | The Bhagavata Purana (Skandha 7, Adhyaya 15) mentions that a dvija (ie. brahmana, kshatriya and vaishya) who is consecrated with the 16 purificatory rites from garbhadana to the funeral rites, offers all his activities as an offering into his five cognitive senses kindled by the light of spiritual wisdom. He offers (ie. merges) the senses into the mind or the thinking faculty full of thoughts, the mind born of Vaikarika (sattvika) ahamkara into the Speech; the speech into the body of articulate sounds (which go to form Speech), and that collection of sounds into Pranava Om; he should merge that into Bindu, the Bindu into Nada, the Nada into Prana (vital breath) and Prana in the Supreme (Brahman).<ref>Ganesh Vasudeo Tagare, The Bhagavata Purana (Part III), Ancient Indian Tradition & Mythology (Volume 9), Edited by J.L.Shastri, New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, P.no.[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.150116/page/n115/mode/2up 985-996].</ref><blockquote>निषेकादिश्मशानान्तैः संस्कारैः संस्कृतो द्विजः | इन्द्रियेषु क्रियायज्ञान्ज्ञानदीपेषु जुह्वति ||५२||</blockquote><blockquote>इन्द्रियाणि मनस्यूर्मौ वाचि वैकारिकं मनः | वाचं वर्णसमाम्नाये तमोङ्कारे स्वरे न्यसेत् ||५३||<ref>Bhagavata Purana, Skandha 7, [https://sa.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%83_%E0%A5%AD/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%A7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%83_%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AB Adhyaya 15].</ref></blockquote><blockquote>''niṣēkādiśmaśānāntaiḥ saṁskāraiḥ saṁskr̥tō dvijaḥ | indriyēṣu kriyāyajñānjñānadīpēṣu juhvati ||52||''</blockquote><blockquote>''indriyāṇi manasyūrmau vāci vaikārikaṁ manaḥ | vācaṁ varṇasamāmnāyē tamōṅkārē svarē nyasēt ||53||''</blockquote> |