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SOCIETY
Marriage season begins with a religious touch
Varanasi/Allahabad:
Hindu devotees took a holy dip in the river Ganges
at Varanasi and Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh to mark
the onset of the auspicious marriage season on Sunday.
Hindus believe that by taking a holy dip on the occasion
of 'Devotthan Ekadashi' (11th day of lunar fortnight
of Kartika month in Hindu calendar) makes their married
lives hassle free and for those intending to get married,
the marriage would get solemnized without any difficulties.
As
per the legend Hindu God Vishnu wakes up from his
six months sleep on this day and it is believed that
with this an auspicious period heralds. Ram Bharat
Pandey, a priest in holy city of Varanasi said that
devotees mark the beginning of the auspicious marriage
season by symbolically marrying Tulsi (Medicinal Herb
Basil) with Saligram ji (a symbolic form of Hindu
God Shiva) as per the Hindu rituals. "From today the
auspicious time for performing marriages and tonsuring
starts. First of all the devotees bathe in the holy
river Ganges and after that they perform Tulsi's mock
marriage and all this makes the day important," said
Pandey. Devotees like sixty-year-old Shobha Malviya
hoped that by having a holy dip on this day would
bring marital bliss. "According to a legend Tulsi
had a special feeling for Saligram ji and the two
got married. After taking bath in river Yamuna, we
symbolically get Tulsi married off to Saligram ji,
so that we could be as fortunate as they were," said
Shobha. In India there is no greater event in a family
than a wedding. Often arranged with Byzantine complexity,
they best display the almost reason-defying permutations
and combinations of the Indian social system defining
everything from redistribution of wealth to building
and restructuring social alignments.
-Nov
9, 2008
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