The word Jata (जात) literally means "born, brought into existence, engendered, arisen, caused, appeared".
[2] The word karman (कर्मन्) literally means "action, performance, duty, obligation, any religious activity or rite, attainment".
[6] The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, in the last chapter detailing lessons for Grihastha stage of life for a student, describes this rite of passage, in verses 6.4.24 to 6.4.27, as follows,[7] When a child is born, he prepares the fire, places the child on his lap, and having poured Prishadajya of Dahi (yoghurt) and Ghrita (clarified butter), into a metal jug, he sacrifices the mix into the fire, saying: "May I, as I prosper in this my house, nourish a thousand !
The Upanishad includes the prayer to deity Saraswati during this rite of passage, the goddess of knowledge and wisdom in Hindu tradition.
By Pantanjali's time, these two rites of passage had merged into one, and completed within the first two weeks of the baby's birth, usually about the tenth day.