Double knitting made the blanket pretty heavy.
Edging - seed stitch. PUK with pink, 1st and 3rd row pink and light, 2nd and 4th pink and dark, BO pink

3 colors around edge: represent the 3 gunas.
Om at center of inside and outside.
Inside: shanti (peace), moksha (freedom), miatri (loving-kindness), isvara (the divine)
Outside: The divine Awareness of the Universe cannot be bound by time. It is all that is; all that has ever been. It is the teacher of teachers 1.26

Change next time around:

• When binding off, just use one yarn so that there isn’t a huge seam on the baby’s head.
• Don’t double knit the hood.
• Make the sanskrit bars running up the sides with two columns.
• Maybe don’t double up yarn for edging.

experience gives double knitting advice:

• (continental knitting) place middle finger of left hand between the two yarns - knitting yarn on top of middle finger, purling yarn under. Drape them both over index finger for knitting. Bring the top yarn down between middle and ring finger and wrap both around pinky.
• knit through back loops (twisting stitches) to keep stitches together when fabric is stretched.
• when knitting different patterns (e.g. words that cannot/will not be mirror images, etc.) and you need to use one color for both k and p stitches, maintain the order of yarns (this will keep them from twisting) by knitting under the purl yarn and purling under the knitting yarn. Keep the non-used yarn tight by pulling on it after each stitch (it will get caught up in the other yarn and cause the stitches to become too big, or show between the stitches on the other side. Keep the stitches (of the same color) slightly looser than the others. OR - keep non-used color in right hand and just move front and back with used color. Pull non-used color taught after the set of used color loops.

If anybody wants to use the pattern - the top of the pattern is on the right side of the picture.
The color key =
Black - opposite color regardless of side (on outside, k light & p dark; on inside, k dark & p light)
Pink - words on outside (k&p both with light)
Blue - words on inside (k&p both with dark)