 "Mihir and Bindu Makadia, a couple from Rajkot, perform a yagna ceremony, a part of garbh sanskar to have an uttam santati (‘superior child’). Photos: Ankur Paliwal")
A pregnant woman should wear a specific gemstone, clothes of specific colours, offer specific flowers to the gods and recite a specific chapter from The Gita to receive the benefits of planets that influence her and the foetus in each month of pregnancy. That was the advice Shraddha Vyas had for a group of Ayurveda practitioners, or vaidyas, who sat in a building named Kunverbhai Jain Dharamshala in Jamnagar district of Gujarat.
Vyas is a lecturer at the Jamnagar-based Gujarat Ayurved University. She was one of the speakers at a five-day workshop organised by Karishma Narwani, director of Garbhvigyan Anusandhan
