VEDIC WEDDING BOOK : Origins, Traditions and Practice
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- Hariyana Ebury Press 2019/01/01
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On many an occasion, like other Americans of Indic origin I found myself in search of a text on the subject of Hindu weddings, which not only explained the various steps in the ceremony but gave the rationale in a clearly intelligible manner, for these steps in the marriage. I found the pickings slim especially when I was looking for a text which was tuned towards audiences in North America. But I am not the one to give up easily, I mentioned the fact that I was looking for such a text to Dr. A V Srinivasan who also happened to be the manager I reported to several years ago when I was working for Pratt and Whitney. It turned out that he had just completed the manuscript for a book on the topic and to cut a long story short I offered to review it in my website. Needless to say, the effort has proved to be a delight. . It is quite obvious that the book is a labor of love, all the more so since the author has performed numerous Hindu weddings all across the United States. The book is 227 pages long , and consists of 5 chapters, 6 appendices , a bibliography, a glossary of commonly used Sanskrit terms and a page describing the Devanagari alphabet with the associated transliteration scheme that is used in the book. The font size is easy on the eyes and the book is profusely illustrated both with photographs and artistically rendered illustrations on almost every page. The reference value of the book is immensely enhanced by including all the mantras used in a typical wedding, both in Devanagari (the customary script for the Sanskrit language , the language in which the mantras are chanted) . Of course the real value of the book lies in its semantic and literary content, and we therefore give a synopsis of these contents.
9780143445913
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
Hinduism - Rituals. Hindu marriage customs and rites. Marriage service (Hinduism).