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BelVivah - The New Bride
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| Information sur la photo |
Copyright: Saikat Ray (saikotic)
![Silver Note Writer [C: 9 W: 0 N: 18]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/n-n-s.gif) (101) |
| Genre: Gens |
| Média: Couleur |
| Date de prise de vue: 2007-02-08 |
| Catégories: Cérémonies |
| Exposition: f/3.7, 1/400 secondes |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Versions: version originale |
| Date de soumission: 2008-08-04 11:15 |
| Vue: 642 |
| Points: 1 |
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| [Ligne directrice - Note] Note du photographe |
A majority of Newars observe the symbolically arranged marriage of their daughters with a bel fruit before they ever marry a man.
The bel fruit marriage is done when the girl is seven to nine years old, or before she attains puberty; and since it is the general belief of Hindu and Buddhist Newar communities that a proper marriage with full rites can be held only once in a lifetime, her subsequent marriages, if any, are considered of only secondary importance.
Although a Newar girl marries a boy later on with almost the full ritual, the girl retains her marital status with the bel fruit. So a woman can, if she wishes, break her marriage with her husband by giving the gift of areca nuts she received during the wedding back to him by putting those areca nuts beside the dead body of her husband in the event of his death. The wife, by this act, becomes free to enter into another marriage union and also escapes the obligation of mourning for the death of her husband. |
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Saikat: ain informative note - and your model's expression is apropos. A fine TE upload. regards, c
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