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  2. Marriage in Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    In Hinduism, the four goals of life (Purusarthas) are regarded to be righteousness (), wealth (), pleasure (), and liberation ().Marriage is generally not considered necessary to fulfil these goals because following righteousness (dharma) applies to a person since birth and wealth (artha) and liberation (moksha) are again one's personal goal as dharma and need not to be aligned with marriage ...

  3. List of Hindu texts - Wikipedia

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    Paripūraṇāṉantha Bōtham _ Tamil Hindu work attributed to the works of Pamban Swamigal. Patthu Pirapantham _ A Tamil Hindu work composed by Pamban Swamigal. Purana (पुराण): Purana meaning "ancient" or "old" is the name of a genre (or a group of related genres) of Indian written literature (as distinct from oral literature). Its ...

  4. Chitralekha (novel) - Wikipedia

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    This novel is a love story about a young general, Beejgupta (बीजगुप्त) and Chitralekha who was a beautiful dancer and a young widow. Beejgupta lives a luxurious life while serving under the Mauryan Empire ruled by King Chandragupta Maurya (340 BCE – 298 BCE). Kumargiri (कुमारगिरि) a hermit, also falls in love ...

  5. Hindu wedding - Wikipedia

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    By the Special Marriage Act, 1954, a Hindu can marry a person who is not Hindu, employing any ceremony, provided specified legal conditions are fulfilled. By Section 7 of Hindu Marriage Act, and tradition, no Hindu marriage is binding and complete before the seventh step of the saptapadi ritual, in presence of fire, by the bride and the groom ...

  6. Samhita - Wikipedia

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    Samhita is a Sanskrit word from the prefix sam (सम्), 'together', and hita (हित), the past participle of the verbal root dhā (धा) 'put'. [4] [5] The combination word thus means "put together, joined, compose, arrangement, place together, union", something that agrees or conforms to a principle such as dharma or in accordance with justice, and "connected with". [1]

  7. Lalleshwari - Wikipedia

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    Following her marriage, she was renamed, as is custom, to Padmavati, but continued to be known as Lalla or Lalleshwari. [9] Some reports suggest her marriage was unhappy, [9] and that she left home, between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-six, to become a disciple of a spiritual leader, Siddha Srikanth or Sed Boyu, who was a Shaivite. [10]

  8. Doha (Indian literature) - Wikipedia

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    Doha is a very old "verse-format" of Indian poetry.It is an independent verse, a couplet, the meaning of which is complete in itself. [1] As regards its origin, Hermann Jacobi had suggested that the origin of doha can be traced to the Greek Hexametre, that it is an amalgam of two hexametres in one line.

  9. Arundhati (Hinduism) - Wikipedia

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    [5] [4] In post-Puranic epic poems in Sanskrit and Hindi, she has been described as "chaste and revered" and with a character that is "unblemished, inspiring and worthy of imitation". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the Hindu culture , there are several beliefs, practices and traditions centred on Arundhati including a ritual in the marriage ceremony after the ...