In Jain wedding wonderful prayer in their hearts always for forgivesness for all living -creature. Jains consider marriage as more or less a worldly matter. Marriage and family growing are suggested to all the Jain Shravakas.

Ceremony before Marriage

Laghana lekhan

In Laghana Lekhan, the wedding is fixed. On this event, pooja is held at the girl’s house and relatives are invited. The lagna, also known as the mahurat is resolute by the cleric. At the end of the ceremony, the lagna patrika or a letter telling you concerning the time of wedding, is sent to the boy’s house. It is also habitual to send ¾ kg of sweets, mainly laddoos at the time of engagement or sagai. The sweets could also be sent in an auspicious time.

Sagai

Engagement or sagai ritual is held at the groom’s house. The groom would wear the traditional Jain headgear, wash his hands and do the Vinayakyantra. After the Vinayakyantra pooja, the bride’s brother applies tilak on the groom’s forehead and gifts him a ring gold chain, coconut sweets, clothes and money. The groom is then offered the lagna patrika. The cleric reads out the patrika and the groom look for the blessing of the elders.

Mada-mandap

Mada-mandap is important ceremony After Sagai which is held a day or two before wedding. This ritual is celebrated both at the groom’s as well as the bride’s places. The hour for the event is a pre-determined propitious hour. The cleric would execute all the ceremony.

Marriage ceremony

Phere

Phere is possibly the most vital ritual in Indian marriages. For the Phere also an propitious time is being decided. For this the groom and the bride would be taken to the mandap and made them seated. The girl sits to the right of the groom, the groom and the bride altering place after taking the seven swears.

Kanyavaran

Also known as the kanyapradan ritual, it has the parents or the uncle of the bride keeping one rupee and twenty-five paise and rice on the right hand of the bride. And then the presentation of the bride to the groom takes place.