आगमे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

Traditionally, the tenth of the life-cycle
ceremonies (samskaras), in which the
child begins formal education, usually
by starting to learn the alphabet.
Although people in modern India may
not perform this rite according to its
prescribed form (which includes making offerings to a sacrificial fire and giving gifts to brahmins), families in which
education is taken seriously usually
have a ritualized commencement of
study, often when the child is as young
as three.