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Sweets and food cooked for an actual wedding are cooked for Tulasi Vivaha too. This ceremony is mostly performed by women. [6] [4] The prasad of sugar-cane, coconut chips, fruits and groundnut is distributed to devotees. The expenses of the wedding are usually borne by a daughter-less couple, who act as the parents of Tulasi in the ritual wedding.
An Indian girl holding an umbrella for a Hindu wedding ceremony. In North Indian weddings, the bride and the groom say the following words after completing the seven steps: We have taken the Seven Steps. You have become mine forever. Yes, we have become partners. I have become yours. Hereafter, I cannot live without you. Do not live without me.
While there are many festival-related rituals in Hinduism, vivaah is the most extensive personal ritual a Hindu undertakes in his or her life. [5] [6] Typical Hindu families spend significant effort and financial resources to prepare and celebrate weddings.
Kanyadana (Sanskrit: कन्यादान, romanized: Kanyādāna) is a Hindu wedding ritual. [1] One possible origin of this tradition can be traced to 15th century stone inscriptions found in the Vijayanagara Empire in South India. [2] There are different interpretations regarding kanyadana across South Asia.
In such a conception, vivaha, which originally meant the wedding ceremony, but has to acquire the definition of marriage as a whole, is meant for procreation, and the establishment of a family (kutumba). After one's wedding, one is believed to have entered the second stage of life, the grihastha ashrama, performing the duties of a householder. [4]
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Bengali Hindu wedding (Bengali: বাঙালি হিন্দু বিবাহ) refers to the traditional Bengali cultural wedding, usually with Hindu rites and rituals native to the Bengal region of Indian subcontinent which has been practiced through centuries.
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