Antyeshti or Pitrumedhakam
Antyeshti or Pitrumedhakam.: – This is the last samskaara to a person by his elder son or all sons together when he leaves the body. So, these shodasha samskaras are very important in one’s life and of these some are celebrated by the grandparents, some of them by parents, some by achaaryas or gurus and some by themselves and the last one by the sons.