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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780143445913 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
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| Terms of availability |
Purchased |
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Prism Books,Kadavanthra |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
306.81 |
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SRI/VE |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Srinivasan, A. V. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
VEDIC WEDDING BOOK : |
| Remainder of title |
Origins, Traditions and Practice |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Hariyana |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Ebury Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2019/01/01 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Size of unit |
237 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
On many an occasion, like other Americans of Indic origin I found<br/>myself in search of a text on the subject of Hindu weddings, which<br/>not only explained the various steps in the ceremony but gave the<br/>rationale in a clearly intelligible manner, for these steps in the<br/>marriage. I found the pickings slim especially when I was looking for a<br/>text which was tuned towards audiences in North America. But I am<br/>not the one to give up easily, I mentioned the fact that I was looking<br/>for such a text to Dr. A V Srinivasan who also happened to be the<br/>manager I reported to several years ago when I was working for Pratt<br/>and Whitney. It turned out that he had just completed the manuscript<br/>for a book on the topic and to cut a long story short I offered to review<br/>it in my website.<br/>Needless to say, the effort has proved to be a delight. . It is quite<br/>obvious that the book is a labor of love, all the more so since the<br/>author has performed numerous Hindu weddings all across the<br/>United States.<br/>The book is 227 pages long , and consists of 5 chapters, 6 appendices<br/>, a bibliography, a glossary of commonly used Sanskrit terms and a<br/>page describing the Devanagari alphabet with the associated<br/>transliteration scheme that is used in the book. The font size is easy<br/>on the eyes and the book is profusely illustrated both with<br/>photographs and artistically rendered illustrations on almost every<br/>page. The reference value of the book is immensely enhanced by<br/>including all the mantras used in a typical wedding, both in<br/>Devanagari (the customary script for the Sanskrit language , the<br/>language in which the mantras are chanted) . Of course the real value<br/>of the book lies in its semantic and literary content, and we therefore<br/>give a synopsis of these contents. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Hinduism - Rituals. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Hindu marriage customs and rites. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Marriage service (Hinduism). |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Lending |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |