Rite no. 7 / 16
अन्नप्राशन
The first solid food
Weaning made into a celebration: the family offers the child its first cooked food with gratitude for the earth that provides it and a prayer for a strong, well-nourished life.
Around the sixth month, when the child is ready for solid food.
Gṛhya-Sūtras — early childhood rites — SBE Vol. 29 (1886), public domain
The Gṛhya-Sūtras, Part I · trans. Hermann Oldenberg · 1886 · Public Domain