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| Hindu Ceremonies - Kannadiga | ||
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| Introduction The south Kanara Brahmin community of Karntaka is renowned for its festivities and weddings used to take four days. Some people do continue with this tradition but many decide to fit the most important parts into a single day. If the horoscopes of the chosen parties match then your groom's parents and close relatives visit your home to discuss the coming events. The engagement is a small party with just close relatives. Here you exchange rings with your groom and, with the priests of both families present, both families sign a document confirming that you will marry. Eight days prior to the wedding, naandi is performed in both to ensure that, even if there is a death or birth in either family, the wedding will still take place. An amusing part of the pre-wedding ceremonies is Kashi yatre which is performed either on the day of the naandi or on the wedding day itself. Your groom pretends to be very angry that nobody is looking for a bride for him and threatens to go to Kashi. His maternal uncle calms him down and convinces him to marry you. Finally, your groom agrees. The Ceremony The groom arrives with his party (baarat) in a procession and is welcomed by your parents and relatives. Your father leads him to the mendap (marriage tent) where your parents honour him by washing his feet (var pooja) in a silver plate and offer him a silk dhoti and pitamber (shawl-style covering made from silk with a zari border). At this point, you are led to the mendap with your sisters shielding your face using a fan of peacock feathers to prevent it from being seen. You and your groom stand on opposite sides of a white piece of cloth and, as shlokas (prayers) are being chanted, you garland him and are both showered with coloured rice. Your parents present you with a special sari and you are required to change before the next stage of the ceremony. This is the ritual Dhare Pooja where you are handed to your groom. He holds your hands as well as supari and betel leaves while your parents sprinkle holy water on both of your hands, signifying their giving you to your groom. The mangal sutra ceremony follows, where the sacred thread is blessed by seven married women and then tied around your neck by your groom. The Seven Steps As in typical wedding ceremony, you both walk around the holy fire (agni) seven times. At a Kannadiga wedding, your sari is tied to your groom's clothes for the seven circumventions to symbolise your union. The highlight of the wedding for some of you and your guests is the food 'binge' afterwards. South Kanara Brahmin weddings are renowned for their food and this is one tradition you should try to include. At the aaratakshate (reception generally held after the wedding in the evening), your guests usually sit in rows with food served on banana leaves. You are required to supply four different curries, two types of kosambari (a combination of yoghurt, lentil and cucumber), one sweet chutney, salt, pickle, pappadams and payasam (dessert) for the assembled guests who bless you both and present you with gifts. The ceremony ends fairly dramatically with your family and friends bidding you a weepy farewell as you go to your new family. In your new home, you perform the grihapravesha where you are welcomed at your new home by your new in-laws with an aarti (garland). You then have to kick over a glass full of rice at the threshold of your in-laws home to symbolise that your arrival into the family will bring wealth. Back |
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