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You may be onto more than you realize J with that last point...recall reading somewhere about the origins of Southeast Asian jewelry...the nath does represent 'nakel', just as payal represents " paon ki bedi". Woman being considered chattel and given these items by the groom's side on wedding day, to show the transfer of ownership😡
Visiji, actually this is what I learnt in my Sanskrit class about the origin of wearing jewelry on the wedding day(no idea how far it is the correct origin)
- Actually women were of high position in olden times and no idea when the marriage has turned into Kanyadaan down the lane. Marriage in olden times was known as Kanyadaan and when you give daan be it of a cow or a girl, you are supposed to adore the person or the animal with the jewelry you can afford. Daan is never supposed to be given bare and hence you have the person or the animal to be adored with jewelry and good clothes. That is why during many marriages you have these things put on for symbolic sake like all the maharastrians wear nathani on the wedding day. The important part of the marriage is still called Kanyadaan - as in you are giving the girl away. I wouldn't necessarily say it is transfer of ownership but yes down the lane it got changed into the ownership funda. Either way it is depressing as in older times women had the right to choose whom to marry and whom to go with but now it has reduced to been given away.
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