[ZESTCaste] Bhagya-vidhata

 

Friends,

 

I happened to see an episode in a serial called 'Bhagyavidhata' running on channel COLORS. It depicted a story from a rich upper caste family. A married woman with a living husband is married to a tree in his presence. This is supposed to be the remedy of 'dosh nivaran'. She has some kind of dosh, perhaps some astrological combination of stars, I could not ascertain, as this was the only episode I saw.

 

 

A tree was the bridegroom, well decorated and named as Brij Maharaj. All rituals were done by the priest as are done in Vedic marriages, right from kanyadana, to gifts giving, tying mangal sutra and maang bharan and the seven phere etc. Then the priest declares that the 'ghat-vivah' is solemnized and hence the heroin named Punam is no more the wife of her living husband and declares that her marriage has ended. Then he orders that a separate residential arrangement be made for her, which is done.

The funny part is that a script is run at the bottom of the screen saying that all this is for entertainment and not meant to promote superstition or denigrate any religious practices.

 

 

I understand that such practices are common in some communities. But what I like know is that, is not practice of marrying a girl to non-human object, a crime under the law?

 

 

Can some one throw more light on this topic?

 

 

Thanks

 

Dr. K. Jamanadas, "Shalimar", Main Road, Chandrapur 442402

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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