Vivah in Ara (विवाह)
the marriage rite, from the mandap puja to the saptapadi
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- From
- ₹18,499
Packages and prices in Ara
| Basic | ₹18,499 |
|---|---|
| Standard | ₹23,999 |
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What the price is made of
- Pandit fee
- Paid to the named pandit who performs the ritual.
- Samagri
- The items the ritual needs, itemised when the package includes them.
- Travel
- The pandit's travel to the address you give, by distance band.
- Platform fee
- What BookMyPandiit charges to run the platform. It is a line of its own: it is never taken out of the pandit's fee and never presented as dakshina.
- Temple charge
- Charged by the temple when the ritual is performed there, and only then.
- GST
- Tax charged as the law requires, shown separately.
- Duration
- 6 hrs
- Pandits
- 2
- Venue
- home
- Samagri included
- no
About Vivah
A Hindu marriage is a sequence of rites over a day rather than a single ceremony. The pandit's part runs from the mandap puja and the Ganesh sthapana through the kanyadaan, the panigrahan, the laja homa into the fire, and the saptapadi — the seven steps, which is the point at which the marriage is complete in the tradition.
What surrounds it varies by region and by family: the haldi, the mehndi, the baraat's reception, the jaimala. The pandit is booked for the muhurat, which is calculated for the couple and frequently falls late at night, and the rite runs three to four hours from the mandap puja to the vidaai.
Keeping a rite in Ara
Ara is Bhojpur, and its rites run in Bhojpuri — including the singing, which is the women's part and sets the pace a pandit works to. A rite here has more people in the room and less silence in it than the same rite kept in Mithila.
The town is walkable and most addresses are reached on foot from the main road. Aranya Devi is where the town's temple-mode rites are kept, and Navratri closes the lanes around it for a week.
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