Rite no. 13 / 16
केशान्त
The first shaving (coming of age)
A marker of growing up within the student years — the first shaving of the beard, accompanied by vows renewing the young person's discipline and purpose.
Around the sixteenth year.
Gṛhya-Sūtras — the student's rites — SBE Vol. 29 (1886), public domain
The Gṛhya-Sūtras, Part I · trans. Hermann Oldenberg · 1886 · Public Domain