Sandhya is the name
of a character in the film Sandhya.
(“union”) The two transitional hours between day and night,
morning and evening twilight, and so, symbolically, the times when day and
night are linked.
The term is also used to describe regular rituals done at
different times of the day, such as in the morning, noon, and evening.
All twice-born males, that is, men from the brahmin,
kshatriya, or vaishya groups who have experienced the adolescent religious
initiation known as "second birth," are required to perform these
ceremonies, according to the dhar ma literature.
These ceremonies are now exclusively done by the most
orthodox brahmins.
