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‖ swayamvara India.|ˌswajamˈvaːra|
Also swayambara, swayamvar.
[Skr., lit. ‘self-choice’.]
A Hindu ceremony in which a woman chooses her husband from amongst several contenders; a symbolic representation of this, preceding an arranged marriage.
1831H. H. Milman in Q. Rev. XLV. 17 A solemn assemblage, called the Swayambara, or self-election, where the princess is to designate the favoured suitor by throwing a wreathe of flowers round his neck. 1863M. Williams Indian Epic Poetry 100 Draupadí was about to hold her swayamvara. 1932J. Nehru Let. 23 June in Glimpses of World Hist. (1939) 210 There is a long poem about one of these Chalukyan kings, and in this it is stated that he was chosen by his wife at a public swayamvar. 1970Times 28 Feb. 6/1 The wedding began on Monday with the Swayamvara ceremony, in which the Hindu girl accepts her parents' choice of husband by garlanding him. |