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Significance of Sindoor (Vermilion Powder) in Hindu Marriage Rituals

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  • Bishnu Prasad Dahal

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This paper aims to identify the significance of Sindoor or Vermilion powder (red in color) in Hindu cultural custom and in Hindu society. Sindoor is given to bride by groom on the occasion of marriage. Sindoor is given the gift by the groom to the bride in between the hair partings of married Hindu women have begun to start on the day of the marriage ceremony and the married woman. After then she considered as the wife of her husband and enters to the matrimonial life. Use of Sindoor in Hindu marriage practices signify socially culturally and even medically to order the gender disequilibrium society through the symbolic interpretation of cultural item and traditions, values, norms that are interwoven by religious bind with the member of Hindu orthodox society to sustain the patriarchal social structure. Sindoor also signify the hierarchy among the women world and the status changes when an unmarried wears a Sindoor in Hindu Society

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  • Bishnu Prasad Dahal, 2021. "Significance of Sindoor (Vermilion Powder) in Hindu Marriage Rituals," Review of European Studies, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 13(3), pages 1-76, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:resjnl:v:13:y:2021:i:3:p:76
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