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Posted: 12 years ago
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Kanyadan (giving away of daugther): The parents of bride then place their daughter's right hand in the hand of the groom and her fathers declares to the assemblage that he, on this day and hour, of his own free will and that of the bride, hereby hands over his daughter to her the groom saying always follow the rules of religion. Groom promises to protect her.

Paanigrahan (Taking the hand of the bride): The bridegroom takes the hands of the bride for the prosperity in household life. He makes a commitment to the bride's parents that from here on he takes full responsibility of their daughter including, her protection.

I bridegroom hold your hand unto mine for life long commitment and for prosperity of household life. May you attain full age in all prosperity with me as your husband. God, who is the master of all prosperity, the administrator of justice, the creator of the universe and all subsisting and enlightened persons present here is giving you to me for the fulfillment of the household life's attainment and obligation


Note-- Also That sindoor filling three times is real...I mean its a part of rituals in fact during sindoor daan the groom has to empty the Sindaura( The box which has sindoor) and uses either conch , Coin, Finger ring or a basket in some cases and the sindoor filling is repeated three times😊 LOL that ek chutki Sindoor is BW fancy..Real hindu customs follows filling heaps of sindoor 😊


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Posted: 12 years ago
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^ Thanks for the detailed explanations, Piu! 😃
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Posted: 12 years ago
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Originally posted by: aanchal_c

hey plz put in the mughal wedding customs also.


Sorry Hun..I am not very sure about Muslim/Mughal rituals so I might not be able to do it...
Hindu weddings I have a thorough knowledge so I have done with the help of Google and my personal knowledge as well😊

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Posted: 12 years ago
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Originally posted by: Tanvi.narula

Thanx 4 the info dear..





Originally posted by: No2Pencil

Thanks for the post. I was confused with all of the rituals and what they meant so was googling but this saves me time hehe 😊


Originally posted by: arnav26

Wow!! Thanks a lot for that information!! I always wanted to have a detailed idea on that😊





Originally posted by: Stargirl06

Beautiful post. While I have little to no interest in rituals, I love watching weddings on tv shows. And your post is so well informed. Loved it. 😊


Originally posted by: -Swetha-

^ Thanks for the detailed explanations, Piu! 😃



Originally posted by: smiletherapy

Thanks so much for all the details about the wedding rituals! Your posts answered a lot of questions I had, esp. as to why Mainavaiti and Bharmal turned away at the sindhoor. I had not ever seen that done before.


After reading your post I also wish more of these rituals were shown!

Thanks a million for your post!




Dear ALL,
You are most welcome and thank you for the responses.
As a viewer I was more than satisfied by the kind of authenticity they maintained while showing the JA wedding..and did not make it a typical Ekta stuff.I was more than overjoyed to compile all the rituals .My personal knowledge does also helps a lot as I had my best friend who is a Chauhan Rajput and I have been a witness to her culture very closely.
Also I have a keen interest in rituals ,so at every wedding ,I try to make it sure that I follow the sequence of rituals with keen interest
Lubb
Piu
@ Shwetha O moi God..Tu bhi idhar..🤗

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Posted: 12 years ago
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Originally posted by: manzilmukul

@ Anu..
Well the original Vedic wedding had 4 PHERAS- IE OF DHARAM ARTHA KAMA MOKSHA..However with passing age THE SEVEN PHERAS were included..
SAPTAPADI WAS THE ORIGINAL seven vows after those 4 pheras..However with passage of time both Seven pheras and then Saptapadi --The steps of vows were kept intact..
In SAPTAPADI..THE BRIDE AND GROOM TOGETHER take seven steps walking with another set of seven vows TOGETHER..While Seven pheras Emphasize mostly on Individual vows Saptapadi is mostly a common vow..
In some wedding 7 betel leaves and 7 betel nuts are placed on which they take those 7 steps..
In some weddings they they place diyas and they break it with their feet ..So its different for different homes...

These are the mantras chanted during Saptapadi


Also about the flower throwing in the fire after each phera..Anu orginally it was started with the aim to keep a tab on the pheras their count..In some communities the couple cumulatively throw Lai (Puffed rice) in the fire..It serves two purpose -1 To keep a tab on pheras
2. The burning of previous life inhibitions..
In that JA wedding it symbolizes how those flowers are her offering herself to him and he accepts it and then offers it to the fire signifying their cumulative acceptance testifying it with fire..
Also it serves another purpose..It shows that how with each phera..THe dulhan gives her past life to the groom and he burns it in the fire evoking a new woman in her...



Ahh thank you so much for this, Piu! This helps me understand it a lot better...I've been to only one Hindu wedding in reality...lol...the rest of my "knowledge" is all based on movies and TV😆...and there too I'd seen this ritual of filling the sindoor like 4 or more times...like you said, emptying the whole thing into the maang basically...and I'd been confused ki aise kyun kar rahein hain...movies mein toh aise nahin hota😆...

I wasn't too sure about the pheras and I thought they just varied by culture and region...like I figured Gujrati weddings have four pheras but say U.P. weddings will have seven...so it's interesting to know the history of this part of the rituals.

Sikh weddings have only four pheras😊...but no fire😆

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