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Marriage in Hinduism

Kinship Institutions

The Hindu marriage is regarded as the most important of the samskaras, the rites of passage described in the Dharmashastra texts. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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