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[Full title: (C) The distinctive sacramental features; (I) Part 1; (3): Garbhadhana and Simantonnayana sacraments].

3) GARBHADHANA and SIMANTONNAYANA SACRAMENTS TO BE PERFORMED ONLY ONCE & NOT AT EACH CONCEPTION : } There are two views, regarding the performance of the 4 garbhadhana sacrament. Some regard it to be the sacrament of the child to be born & hence it is to be repeated at each conception. 5 While others maintain it to be the sacrament of the lady. It is, therefore, not to be repeated at each conception when it is once performed, it will sanctify all the subsequent children to be born. Dr. Raj Bali Pandey, rightly observes, "logically speaking, the garbhadhana was a garbhas amskara in the beginning & the second school represents the tendency of simplifying & omitting the Samskaras & certainly is of later origin0" a i 6 And Devala believes in the second view, that garbhadhana is not to be repeated at each conception, but it is to be performed only once at the first occasion. (336,337). The portion of the present text, representing this view is definitely later than the sutra period. But it is noteworthy that the latter view, represented by Devala, has become very popular in the subsequent period & even some Nibandhas like the S.C., the Smrititattva etc. follow the same view. ;

06 The same problem, as discussed previously arises in case of the simantonnayana sacrament. "Apastamba, Baudhayana, Bharadvaja & Paraskara expressly say that this samskara is to be performed only once at the first conception" 7. Most of the commentators & digestwriters follow the same view. Devala (351) also definitely maintains this view. But there is a tradition, represented by Visnu, that some hold it to be the sacrament of the garbha (the child to be born) & should be repeated at each conception.