Haldi Kumkum in Bhagalpur (हल्दी कुमकुम)
the pre-wedding haldi rite kept with the women of both families
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- ₹1,999
Packages and prices in Bhagalpur
| Basic | ₹1,999 |
|---|---|
| Standard | ₹2,299 |
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- Paid to the named pandit who performs the ritual.
- Samagri
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- Duration
- 75 min
- Pandits
- 1
- Venue
- home
- Samagri included
- yes
About Haldi Kumkum
The haldi is kept in both households on the day or two before a wedding: turmeric paste with sandal and oil is applied by married women of the family, beginning with the mother, and the couple does not leave the house afterwards until the wedding.
It is the most social of the wedding rites and the least formal — the songs are the women's, not the pandit's, and the pandit's part is the short puja that opens it and the sankalp that names the couple. An hour and a half, at home, and the clothes worn for it are expected to be ruined.
Keeping a rite in Bhagalpur
Bhagalpur is a river town and its rites use the river. Tarpan, asthi visarjan and the shraddh rites are kept on the ghats below Budhanath rather than at home, and the monsoon changes which steps are usable rather than whether the rite happens.
The town's own tradition is Anga's, and the calendar it keeps around Shravan and Mahashivratri is the Shaiva one. Silk-weaving households in Champanagar and Nathnagar hold their own occasions, which is worth mentioning when a date is being fixed.
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