My First Indian Wedding
The master book: three days, a hundred cousins.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
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A wedding
Not tied to any one month — an Indian wedding is a multi-day, multi-tradition celebration, and every region and community has its own order of ceremonies.
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Source works: Valmiki Ramayana · Shiva Purana · Family tradition, with its sources and more
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Shiva Purana
7 samhitas; Rudra Samhita, Kumara Khanda for Ganesha
Source edition recordValmiki Ramayana
Southern recension (vulgate) as printed by Gita Press; 7 kandas, 645 sargas
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