Shiva-Parvati (Iconography)
author: Thomas Eugene Donaldson
edition: 2007, D. K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
pages: 1201
ISBN-10: 8124603596
ISBN-13: 9788124603598
Topic: Shilpashastra
Saptapadi
This chapter describes Saptapadi located on page 146 in the book Shiva-Parvati and Allied Images (Their Iconography and Body Language). This book deals with the study of sculptures of Shiva-Parvati and other images such as the Murtis of Anugraha, Umamaheshvara and Umasahita as well as the mythological background of the deities represents by those sculptures. The two volumes contain over 700 images dedicated to the study of postures and body language of various sculptures, the sculptor’s technique.. This chapter is part of the collection Iconography and Images of Marriage and conjugal life.
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Atithi or Guest Reception (study) [by Sarika. P.]
The most important of these are: Vagdana (betrothal), Vara-varana (formal acceptance of the bridegroom), Kanyadana (gift of the bride to the bridegroom by the legitamate guardian), Vivaha-homa (marriage offerings), Panigrahana (clasping the hand), Hridaya-sparsha (touching the heart), Saptapadi (seven steps symbolic of prosperity and felicity), Ashmarohana (mounting the stone, symbolic of stability), Suryavalokana (looking at the Sun, as a witness to the marriage), Dhruva-darshana (looking at ther pole...
Read full contents: Part 2 - The sacrement of Marriage
Paraskara-grihya-sutra [by Hermann Oldenberg]
The parallel texts have sakha and saptapadi for sakhe and saptapada of Paraskara. (* 2) See above, I, 4, 15....
Read full contents: Adhyaya I, Kandika 8
Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi [by Ganganatha Jha]
After the ‘offering of fried grains,’ the bride is made to go round the fire thrice and then move forward seven steps, the words addressed to her beginning with the words ‘ekapadi bhava’ and ending with ‘saptapadi bhava,’ and when the ‘seventh step’ has been thus taken by the bride, there can be no revoking, either on the part of the bride’s father or on that of the bridegroom. So that even though she be insane, she has to betaken as ‘wife,’ and cannot be abandoned....
Read full contents: Verse 8.227
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[Shiva-Parvati (Iconography): index]
[About the Author (Thomas Eugene Donaldson)]
[Introduction]