Query on Havin Shika

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Sri Gurubhyon Namaha

                                   I have a query regarding the need to have a

shikha or tuft of hair at the back or in telugu it is pilaka, in almost every

karma there is at the end of anga nayasa " SHIKAYAI AUSHUATU " i heard in

someones speech that it is mandatory to have a shikha, and the one who does not

have a shikha has lost his brahminhood and it goes to such an extent that it

says that he can eat cow's meat and leave off vaidika karma. And also someone

told me that one should have the shika only after ones fathers death, can any of

our learned members clarify on it

 

Sri Kamakshi

Raghavender