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'''Kanyādāna''' ("extending rights of an unmarried girl")<ref name="Brittanica">{{Cite web|title=KANNIKADHANAM {{!}} Kanchi Periva Forum|url=https://periva.proboards.com/thread/12692/kannikadhanam|access-date=2021-02-28|website=periva.proboards.com}}</ref> is a [[Hindu wedding]] [[ritual]].<ref name=Enslin>Enslin, Elizabeth. "Imagined Sisters: The Ambiguities of Women’s Poetics and Collective Actions". Selves in Time and Place: Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal. Ed. Debra Skinner, Alfred Pach III, and Dorothy Holland. Lanham; Boulder; New York; Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998 (269-299).</ref><ref name="Brittanica"/> and one possible origin of this tradition can be traced to 15th century stone inscriptions found in Vijayanagara empire in South India.<ref name=":0" /> There are different interpretations regarding kanyādān across India ([[South Asia]]).<br />
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== Origin ==<br />
Practice of dowry among citizens appear in 15th century as can be evidenced in the several stone inscriptions found in Vijayanagara empire. Several incidents recorded in these inscriptions show that there was a wide spread practice of bride price (form of dowry where groom pays money or possessions to the bride),<ref>{{Cite book|last=Dr.B. S. Chandrababu|first=and Dr.L. Thilagavathi|title=Woman, Her History and Her Struggle for Emancipation|pages=266}}</ref> during marriages. To fight the epidemic of bride price, a community group of [[Brahmin]]s created a social legislation to adopt the marriage system of ''kanyadana'' for their community. It was mandated that no money should be paid or received during marriage and those who do not follow are liable for punishment by the King. The above inscriptions also reinforce that system of social legislations within community groups was widely in practice as against [[Personal laws in India|personal laws]] based on religious scriptures.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Mahalingam|first=T.V|title=Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar|year=1940|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.103527|publisher=University of Madras|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.103527/page/n283 255]-256}}</ref><br />
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==Kanyādāna songs==<br />
In communities where kanyādāna is performed as part of the actual wedding, the ritual is carried out through a variety of kanyādāna songs. These songs may include the parents lamenting the loss of their daughter, as well as regretting their economic sacrifice for the wedding. Other songs focus on the [[groom]], for example comparing him to the "ideal groom", the god [[Rama]], in the epic ''[[Ramayana]]''. Importantly, the kanyādān [[ritual]] occurs right before the [[Sindoor]] ritual (sindurdan).<ref name = Henry>Henry, Edward O. "Folk Song Genres and Their Melodies in India: Music Use and Genre Process". Asian Music (Spring-Summer 2000). JSTOR. 20 February 2008.</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Vivaah]]<br />
*[[Marriage in Hinduism]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* Gutschow, Niels; Michaels, Axel; Bau, Christian (2008). ''The Girl's Hindu Marriage to the Bel Fruit: Ihi'' and ''The Girl's Buddhist Marriage to the Bel Fruit: Ihi'' in ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=DK-eoCXM_WsC Growing up - Hindu and Buddhist Initiation Ritual among Newar Children in Bhaktapur, Nepal]''. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Germany. {{ISBN|3-447-05752-1}}. pp.&nbsp;93–173.<br />
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