Consider the following statements: It means going out. After being admitted to a monastery, students had to renounce all worldly and family relationships. After admission into the Sangha they could remain as a monk. The age limit fixed for the ceremony was 8 years. Which ceremony is being referred to?

The ceremony meaning 'going out', in which a novice renounced worldly and family ties on entering a monastery at the age of eight, was the Pabbajja.

Upasampada was the higher ordination performed later, admitting the novice as a full monk.

Upanayana was the Vedic initiation ceremony marking the start of a Brahmanical student's education.

Janeu refers to the sacred thread worn after the Upanayana, not a Buddhist rite.

After Pabbajja the boy became a samanera or novice within the Sangha.

Upasampada was normally conferred only at the age of twenty.