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    In South India, the Ritu Kala Samskara ceremony marks a girl's transition to womanhood after her first menstruation. During the ceremony, she wears a half-saree or langa voni and receives gifts. This rite of passage is celebrated with the girl's family and friends and marks her physical and spiritual maturity. The ceremony involves the girl first wearing a langa voni and then being gifted her first sari by her maternal uncle to wear for the second half, officially welcoming her into adulthood.

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    In South India, the Ritu Kala Samskara ceremony marks a girl's transition to womanhood after her first menstruation. During the ceremony, she wears a half-saree or langa voni and receives gifts. This rite of passage is celebrated with the girl's family and friends and marks her physical and spiritual maturity. The ceremony involves the girl first wearing a langa voni and then being gifted her first sari by her maternal uncle to wear for the second half, officially welcoming her into adulthood.

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    Ritu Kala

    Samskaram

    A Tamil Hindu girl (center) in 1870 wearing a half-


    saree, flowers and jewelry of her Ritu Kala Sanskara
    rite of passage

    Half sari function or Langa Voni Telugu:


    లం ఓ , Pavadai Dhavani Tamil:
    பாவாைட, Langa Davani Kannada: ಲಂಗ
    ಾವ . In South India, the Ritu Kala
    Samskara ceremony or Ritushuddhi is an
    Indian Hindu ceremony performed when
    a girl wears a sari for the first time. It is
    the celebration of when a girl's rite of
    passage after menarche (first
    menstruation) and she is deemed a
    young woman both physically and
    spiritually.[1] Langa voni is traditional
    clothing for unmarried girls in South
    India.

    The Ritual
    Ritusuddhi, also called as Ritu Kala
    Samskara, is the coming of age
    ceremony for girls, after menarche or
    first menstruation. This milestone in a
    girl's life is observed by her family and
    friends, with gifts and her wearing a sari
    for the ritual.[2][3] The rite of passage is
    celebrated, in modern times, as a "half-
    saree party" or half-sari function, where
    the female relatives and friends of the
    girl gather, and she receives and wears a
    half-saree and other gifts. Thereafter, at
    ceremonious events, she wears the half-
    sarees, until her marriage when she puts
    on a full sari.[1]

    In South India coming of age ceremony or


    rites of passage is celebrated when a girl
    reaches puberty. She wears a new langa
    voni during the first part of the ceremony
    and then she is gifted her first sari by her
    maternal uncle , which she wears during
    the second half of the ceremony. This
    marks her transition into womanhood

    The tradition of presenting a langa voni


    begins with the girl's first naming
    ceremony Namakaran and her first rice
    feeding ceremony called Annaprashana.
    She receives her last one at her coming
    of age ceremony.

    In Shaktism the Earth's menstruation is


    celebrated during the Ambubachi Mela,
    an annual fertility festival held in June, in
    Assam, India. During Ambubachi, the
    annual menstruation course of the
    goddess Kamakhya is worshipped in the
    Kamakhya Temple.

    See also
    Culture and menstruation
    Langa voni
    Saṃskāra
    Bar and Bat Mitzvah

    References
    1. Lene Jensen (2015), The Oxford
    Handbook of Human Development
    and Culture, Oxford University Press,
    ISBN 978-0199948550, page 328
    2. Sacred Samskaras Rajbali Pandey,
    Hinduism Today, May/June 2001
    3. Heidi Munan (2012), Hindu Puberty
    Rites in CultureShock! Malaysia: A
    Survival Guide to Customs and
    Etiquette, ISBN 978-1558680708,
    page 74

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