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Divine Wedding Celebration In Janakpur
By KTM Metro Reporter
December 7, 2013: the celebration of the divine wedding of Lord Ram with Sita started five days ago has reached the peak today: the fifth day of the bright fortnight (Mangasir sukla pachaya) of Mangasir (November-December). Devotees have taken the wedding procession from the temple of Lord Ram to the Janaki temple in Janakpur five days ago. Janaki is another name of Sita. Devotees perform the wedding rituals to the idols of Ram and Sita in Janakpur today. Elsewhere devotees visit the temple of Ram today.
Sita was the daughter of King Janak of the Mithilia kingdom. King Janak set the condition of anybody breaking the bow called Shiva Dhanu would get Sita in marriage. Many kings, princes and warriors attended the wedding ceremony but none of them could hold it up not to mention breaking it.
Ram along with his younger brother Laksman went with their guru Balmiki Rishi to watch the highly hyped wedding of Sita. After watching none of the kings, princes and warriors could do anything with the bow, Balmiki said to Ram, “Now, it is your turn to try your luck.”
Honoring the words of guru Balmiki, Ram walked steadily and surely. Reaching at the Shiva dhanu, Ram bowed to all the dignitaries, and then to the Shiva dhanu. He placed his right foot and then the left foot firmly on the ground. He held the bow by his left hand and lifted it to air and then broke it by his right hand sending sound waves to the three worlds. One piece of the bow flew to heaven; another fell on the sea and the third landed in Janakpur.
Lord Ram took Sita in a wedding procession to Ayodhaya: the kingdom of his father. The wedding procession, and rituals of the wedding emulated every year in Nepal in this month.
