000			01550nam a22001817a 4500
008			210920b2021 |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9789353338442
082			_a215 PAT-D
100			_aPattanaik, Devdutt
245			_aMarriage : _b100 stories around India's favourite ritual / _cDevdutt Pattanaik
260			_aIndia _bRupa Publications _c2021
300			_a220p.
365			_aINR _b295.00
500			_aMarriage, by mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik, brings together stories from Vedic, Puranic, Tamil, and Sanskrit literature, from regional, classical, folk and tribal lore, from oral and textual traditions, across 3000 years of history and 3 million square kilometres of geography, to reveal the diversity and fluidity of Indian customs and beliefs around marriage. In Hindu temples, gods and goddesses get married. Marriage is as much a divine rite of passage as a human one. It marks the union of matter and spirit. Matter, because it brings in new wealth, status, pleasure, security, and ushers in the next generation, who can inherit the family name and estate. Spirit, because it forces the couple, the family and the community to accommodate new ideas, new emoticons, new problems and new solutions, Marriage is described as such, mangal, Kalyan, full of auspiciousness, goodness and torture, and not a mere contract,. One needs to be vigilant when it happens, as it makes a turning of life, and the world.
650			_aHindu marriage customs and rites
650			_aMarriage customs and rites
650			_aHinduism--Rituals
999			_c67424 _d67424