Keshanta (, ) (literally, cutting the hair) is the thirteenth of the sixteen saá¹ÂskÃÂras (sacraments) practiced by the Hindus. This saá¹ÂskÃÂra is connected with the first shaving of a student's beard when his age is about 16 years. The procedure of this saá¹ÂskÃÂra is almost the same as that of the Chudakarana. This saá¹ÂskÃÂra was also known as the Godana (giving a cow) or the Godanakarman (rite of giving a cow), as the student offered a cow to the teacher at the end of the ceremony. According to the Manusmriti (II.65), this saá¹ÂskÃÂra should be performed for a Brahmin in the sixteenth year (from conception), for a Kshatriya in the twenty-second year and for a Vaishya in the twenty-fourth year.