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Kalyanasundara
Sign in to savethumb|280x280px|Depiction of Kalyanasundara, Ellora caves.
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- Legend
- Iconography
- Textual descriptions
- Depictions
- Worship
- See also
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thumb|280x280px|Depiction of Kalyanasundara, Ellora caves.
Kalyanasundara (, literally "beautiful wedding"), also spelt as Kalyansundar and Kalyana Sundara, and known as Kalyanasundara-murti ("icon of the beautiful wedding"), Vaivahika-murti (वैवाहिक-मूर्ति, "nuptial icon") and Panigrahana-murti ( पाणिंग्रहण-मूर्ति) ("icon related to panigrahana ritual"), is the iconographical depiction of the wedding of the Hindu deities Shiva and Parvati. The couple are often depicted performing the panigrahana ("accepting the hand") ritual of a Hindu wedding, where the groom accepts the bride by taking her right hand in his.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kalyanasundara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.