आगमे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

Life-cycle rituals (samskaras) performed
by a husband before his child’s birth, as
prescribed in the dharma literature, the
texts on religious duty. According to this
literature, there were three such rites:
Garbhadhana, which ensured conception; Pumsavana, which guaranteed that
the newly conceived child would be a
boy; and Simantonnayana, which was
performed late in the pregnancy to
ensure the child’s good health and the
mother’s easy delivery. Although the
dharma literature prescribes these rites
as obligatory, none of them are widely
performed now except by the most
orthodox brahmins.