Kanyadaan is not a mere ritual of "giving away" the daughter; it is entrusting a precious responsibility to the man she has chosen. The mantras ask him to see her as a companion in dharma, not property. I remember my own father’s hand trembling over mine, his voice breaking on the words, and I knew it was not a loss but a hope placed between two families. That moment, heavy with the scent of jasmine and sandalwood, taught me its true meaning was a sacred expansion of love.
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