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South Indian Hindu Wedding Rituals Detailed List

Wedding is one of the important Samskaras in a Hindu's Life, as ordained by the Smriti(Guidelines for Day to-day Living).

Forty Samskaras are listed(please read my posts filed under Hinduism)

Pandhalkal, Hindu Wedding ceremony.
The Wedding ceremonies are elaborate.

Typical Marriage arrangements consist of these parts.

1.Finding a Boy of Girl.

2.Matching of the Horoscopes.

3.Visiting the Girl's House by the Groom with his close relatives to know more of the Girl and the Family.

4.Nischyathaatham of the exchange of MOU between the parents of the Groom and Bride( If Grandparents are alive they will perform this-Paternal Grandparents. At this function only close relatives are invited;The Religious aspect id s very minimal and this is more of a Social Occasion, when Date , Time and Venue of the Wedding is announced.

5. Sumangali Prarthanai, when those women who died remaining Married are propitiated.This is normally performed about a couple of days before the Marriage.

6.Samaaradhanai or Dadhyaaradhanai is performed normally after the Sumangali Prarathanai to the family Deity.

7.Pandakkal Naduthal

8.Inviting the Bridegroom is done a day before the Wedding.

9.Wedding Ceremony.

Here I post the procedure for the Wedding ( A post on Sumangali Prarthanai has been shared already)

First Tamils,Muslims Next,Now Hindus SriLanka

Sri Lanka seems to be in a self destruct mood post LTTE.

They first targeted Tamils,divided the Muslims of Indian origin from the Tamils,Then started attacking Muslims, including the burning od Mosques.

Now it seems that it is the turn of the Hindus .

In a comedy called History a joker has been publishing articles that the Tamils were Buddhists and Jains first and late became Hindus!

"Tamil Saivites who believe that Tamil and Saivism are inextricably intertwined are troubled by suggestions that Tamils were once mainly Buddhist and Jain before Saivism took root after the seventh century AD as the Thevaram Period began. Many Saivites whose ancestors converted at the time think Tamil Saivites who converted to Christianity in European colonial times are traitors."

This merits only laughter.

For I understand that this as natural , if coming from a man descended from a Lion!

But from a Tamil who is licking the boots of racists?

Is this guy Raj Narain or a Lalu Prasad Yadav to shower jokes?

At least they were/are harmless buffons.