The Jain 1992 04 Special Issue

Author(s): Natubhai Shah, Vinod Kapashi
Publisher: UK Jain Samaj Europe

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- Jäin
(NOTE: The fourth round is done after the next stage "Accepting the Bride", but the mantra is said now).
"May these two be granted peace, contentment, prosperity, and wisdom. ARHAM AUM"
Mantra for the FOURTH round:
(The Priest then gives rice, flowers, incense and sweets to the couple and they offer them in puja to the fire god.)
Attachment to the world is due to several kinds of karma) Mohaniya, Vedaniya, Nam, Gotra and Ayu Karma.
Inflow of karma actions, bondages and pleasures are interrelated. This is how your joining together is a natural and binding result of your karma.
12. KANYA DAN (Giving the bride to the groom)
The Priest gives grains of jav, tal, a small bit of grass and a drop of water to the bride's father (or relative) and says this mantra:
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11. FOUR ROUNDS;
The couple circle the fire four times. The bride's brother comes with some rice grains and gives them to the bride and groom who, in turn, after each round, give them to the priest.
"Here .......... on this year .......... month of tithi (Indian date) .......... day .......... This bride who is arrayed in the best of clothing, best of jewellery and carrying a fragrant, beautiful garland has come to you. The bride's father (or relative) is handing over his beloved daughter to you. Please accept her". Groom: "I take thee". Priest: "Truly taken. Let there be peace, wealth, comfort and contentment. Let there be happiness". (At this point the priest recites the vows and the couple accept them .)
The priest offers these grains of rice to the sacred fire.
Mantra for the FIRST circle (round):
AUM ARHAM. Without beginning is the world .. is the soul .. is time .. is attachment. Anger, ego, illusion, greed are associated with the body and different Karmas. There are words, forms, liquids, smells and touches which are desirable or undesirable.
"Please proceed round the fire now". (Bride's father gives jav etc to the bride and groom). Groom: "I take thee .......... I have now taken thee".
You have joined each other in front of the Siddha, Kevali, other Gods, Fire, men and women, Rulers, People, teacher, father and mother and other relatives - so please proceed around this fire.
(The Priest asks them to offer jav etc in the fire. The bride and groom offer these things to the fire). Then the Fourth Round is made. (This makes the final sealing of the marriage bond).
Mantra for the SECOND round:
13. VASKSHEPA
The bride and the groom change places after the fourth round the groom on the right side and the bride on the left of the groom.
AUM ARHAM. "Illusion Karma' lasts for a long time. It adheres firmly and cannot be eliminated easily. Twenty eight types of this Karma include anger, ego, deceit, and greed in different degrees and different time-spans. Other things like feelings associated with mind and body are longer-lasting too. This love and pining together is also the fruit of your past karma; may it last as long as this world lasts. So please encircle this fire.
Priest: "Lord Adinath was married by this same ritual and got happiness. May you be happy".
(The Priest sprinkles a little vaskshepa on the heads of the bride and the groom).
Mantra for the THIRD round:
AUM ARHAM - There are karmas related to feelings of comfort and discomfort, hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling, touching - all these could be a good experience or a bad experience. May you have all good health and experience.
Then the bride's father gives water and tal, into the hands of the groom. Father: "Please take this". Groom: "I have taken it. I have accepted it". (The Priest takes these things afterwards and sprinkles them on the bride).
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