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Significance of Sindoor (Vermilion Powder) in Hindu Marriage Rituals

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ID12968916
AuthorsBishnu Prasad Dahal (0000-0001-9390-5930, Tribhuvan University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume13
Issue3
Pages76-76
Publication date2021-08-24
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReview of European Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1918-7173 • E-ISSN: 1918-7181
PublisherCanadian Center of Science and Education (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5539/res.v13n3p76
OpenAlexW3194483909
LanguageEN
References cited8

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

Ceremony · Hierarchy · Hinduism · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Wife · Architecture and Cultural Influences · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Religious Studies

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