Baby Naming

[shaheediyan]

Dear Sangat Ji,

With regards to naming a newborn, I was wondering if anybody knows where/when the current tradition of taking 1st akar from hukumnama started?

Is there any reference to this being done in historical texts?

Dhanvaad

[Guest]

good question, i have wonder about this same question too.

if someone can enlighten the sangat that be great.

[drawrof]

In our 10 guru's time, It was tradition to go to your guru to get your child named. That is how anand (guru amar das ji's grandson was named)

[jassasingh]

the tradition which i have seen is when a child is born in sarbloh batta and 5 patase and a sarbloh kard ( shri sahib ) amrit is made by a teyar bar teyar singh by reading only japji sahib path in it .... the from the tip if kard 5 drops of amrit are put in the mouth of the child and rest her mother drinks .... then a child is taken to gurudwara sahib and after ardas hukamnamma is taken .... and the childs name is kept on the very first alphabet of the hukamnama ....

[chatanga]

yes jassa ive heard that as well, only i think it was the duty of the dai or midwife also to perform japji at the birth of the child, but its a tradition rarely practised.

[Niranjana]

This tradition is very commonly practised amongst Khandani Sikh families. I have witnessed it performed regularly to younger members of my own family, it is effectively "kirpan da amrit" in the truest sense (i.e. to initiate a new born baby) and can be viewed as the equivalent Sikh practice to giving a 'gurtee' to a new born baby (as is common in Punjabi and other SE Asian cultures), except for the Sikhs it comes effectively from the Guru (represented here through the use of Gurbani, Kirpan etc to create the Amrit).