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Born of a living Vedic Gurukul
Worthy of
the offering
Yajñopavīta spun inside the Gurukul. Roli, Bhasma and Chandan chosen the way a priest would choose them. Because what is offered to the Divine must itself be fit to be offered.
तत् कुरुष्व समर्पणम्
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Four principles
Nothing reaches your thali by accident
Every item in the Samarpan range passes through the same four questions before we are willing to put our name on it.
Shuddhata
Purity
No synthetic dye, brightener or filler, and no shortcuts. What is written on the label is what is inside the jar.
Pramanikta
Authenticity
Sourced and prepared the way the śāstra and the paramparā describe — not the way a factory finds convenient.
Paramparik Vidhi
Traditional Method
Our Yajñopavīta is hand-spun in the Gurukul at 96×4×2×3 aṅgula pramāṇa. The measure is not decorative.
Vishwas
Dependable Quality
Sealed, dated, dignified packaging — so that a purohit ordering for a temple gets exactly what he got last time.
The Yajñopavīta
Not a thread. A saṃskāra.
Nine strands, three of three, each knotted by a brahmachārī who wears one himself. The Yajñopavīta carries discipline, responsibility and the unbroken continuity of the ṛṣi-paramparā. We make it inside the Gurukul because it should not be made anywhere else.
96 × 4 × 2 × 3 aṅgula pramāṇa
Handspun
in the Gurukul
5 threads
per pack
Sāttvik
cotton only
Our philosophy
“Samarpan means offering. Dedication. Surrender.”
It is the spirit with which a flower is placed before the Divine. The spirit with which a mantra is recited. The spirit with which a yajña is performed. Our symbol — open palms holding a lotus — says the whole of it: to receive with reverence, and to offer with devotion.
What you are actually buying
Four things we can say without hedging
Where it is made
Inside the Gurukul
The Yajñopavīta is hand-spun at Aadi Shankar Vedic Vidya Sansthan in Lucknow, by brahmachārīs who wear one themselves. Not sourced from a wholesaler and relabelled.
The measure
96 × 4 × 2 × 3 aṅgula
Cut and folded to the stated traditional pramāṇa, not to whatever length is convenient to produce. If the measure is the reason you are buying, that is the measure you receive.
What is in it
No synthetic dye or filler
The Roli is prepared from haldi by the traditional method, with no synthetic dye, brightener or filler added. The Bhasm is ash, milled fine, and nothing else.
Who answers
A real address and phone
S-313, Shakti Nagar, Indira Nagar, Lucknow. A person answers that number. If something arrives wrong, you are talking to the people who packed it.