Saptapadi

Saptapadi

Saptapadi (Sanskrit: Sanskrit: सप्तपदी, , Malayalam: സപ്തപദി, Bengali: সপ্তপদী, Telugu: సప్తపది, English: seven steps, saptapadī) is the most important rite (Sanskrit, Hindi: rītī) of a Hindu marriage ceremony. The word, Saptapadi means "Seven steps". After tying the Mangalsutra, the newly wed couple take seven steps around the holy fire, that is called Saptapadi.

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Saptapadi

In Eastern India, South India and in Western India specially in Hindu Marriage, after each saying a mantra at each of the seven steps, the couple say these words together:

"Now let us make a vow together. We shall share love, share the same food, share our strengths, share the same tastes. We shall be of one mind, we shall observe the vows together. I shall be the Samaveda, you the Rigveda, I shall be the Upper World, you the Earth; I shall be the Sukhilam, you the Holder - together we shall live and beget children, and other riches; come thou, O sweet-worded girl!"[1][2][3][4][5]

In North Indian weddings, the bride and the groom say the following words after completing the seven steps:

"We have taken the Seven Steps. You have become mine forever. Yes, we have become partners. I have become yours. Hereafter, I cannot live without you. Do not live without me. Let us share the joys. We are word and meaning, united. You are thought and I am sound. May the night be honey-sweet for us. May the morning be honey-sweet for us. May the earth be honey-sweet for us. May the heavens be honey-sweet for us. May the plants be honey-sweet for us. May the sun be all honey for us. May the cows yield us honey-sweet milk. As the heavens are stable, as the earth is stable, as the mountains are stable, as the whole universe is stable, so may our union be permanently settled."[6][7][8][9]

In Culture

  • In 1961, a Bengali film was released in Tollywood directed by Ajoy Kar named Saptapadi. It is a love story with a twist set in Bengal in pre independent India (early 1940); the time when young Indian students were competing equally with British 'goras' in all fields whether it be education or sports.
  • In 1981 a Telugu film was released named Sapthapadhi, directed by Kasinadhuni Viswanath, this film won National Award in Indian Films.

References

  1. ^ www.panchangam.com
  2. ^ South Indian Wedding, SanathanaDharma.com, http://www.sanathanadharma.com/articles/wedding.htm, retrieved 2009-05-21, "... The Ritual of the Hindu Wedding too is each symbolic ..." 
  3. ^ Sapthapathi Manthras - Its meaning, bnaiyer.com, http://www.bnaiyer.com/companion/paths-13.html, retrieved 2009-05-21, "... they both say: "Now let us make a vow together. We shall share the same food, share the strengths ..." 
  4. ^ www.sophieanand.com
  5. ^ A South Indian Wedding – The Rituals and the Rationale: The Vedic Ceremony of the Tamil Shaivite Brahmin community, SAWNET, http://www.sawnet.org/weddings/tamil_vedic.html, retrieved 2009-05-21, "... The gates of the wedding hall are adorned with full-grown plantain trees, signifying evergreen plenty for endless generations ..." 
  6. ^ Diane Warner (2006), Diane Warner's Complete Book of Wedding Vows: Hundreds of Ways to Say "I Do", Career Press, pp. 7–8, ISBN 1564148165, http://books.google.com/?id=hdnNZ3U6iG8C&pg=PA8&dq=%22seven+steps%22, "... We have taken the Seven Steps. You have become mine ..." 
  7. ^ Sitaram Sehgal (1969), Hindu marriage and its immortal traditions, Navyug Publications, http://books.google.com/?id=MwUYAAAAIAAJ, "... May the plants be honey-sweet for us; may the Sun be all honey for us and ..." 
  8. ^ Eleanor C. Munro (1996), Wedding readings: centuries of writing and rituals on love and marriage, Penguin Books, ISBN 0140088792, http://books.google.com/?id=OiALO4j3LpkC, "... May the nights be honey-sweet for us; may the mornings be honey-sweet ..." 
  9. ^ Michael Macfarlane (1999), Wedding Vows: Finding the Perfect Words, Sterling Publishing Company, p. 89, ISBN 9780806906393, http://books.google.com/books?id=W987VY-4h3IC&pg=PA89, "... we are word and meaning, united ..." 

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