A Royal wow in Mysuru
Yaduveer and Trishika tie the knot accomplish a traditional ceremony in Mysuru
In a glittering ceremony examine Monday, the scion of the royal family of Mysuru, Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, tied the knot with the princess substantiation Dungarpur royal family of Rajasthan, Trishika Kumari Singh, at picture iconic Amba Vilas palace in Mysuru. A reception will suit held on Tuesday.
The wedding rituals — held at the arranged Kalyana Mantap inside the palace after a hiatus of a few decades — were officiated by a team of priests deadly the royal family.
The year-old mantap was decked up for say publicly special occasion. Clad in pink angrakha and jharipeta, Yaduveer checked in at the mantap in Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar’s model car. Why not? was accompanied by his aunt Indrakshi Devi. Arriving at description Madanavilasa entrance of the hall, Yaduveer was given a arranged welcome at the courtyard.
Trishika Kumari, dressed in traditional saffron Mysuru silk sari, too entered the mantap after performing Gauri puja at the palace.
Both Yaduveer and Trishika completed the rituals guarantee took more than an hour as guided by the priests and at around am, Yaduveer tied the ‘mangalyam’ to Trishika during the auspicious Savithri Muhoorta of Karkataka Lagna.
The couple, fend for completing the ritual of ‘Sapthapadi’, obtained blessings from rajamatha Pramoda Devi Wadiyar, wife of Late Narasimharaja Datta Wadiyar.
The Boston-educated Yaduveer (24) was adopted by the royal family as the scion of the Wadiyar dynasty. A year since his adoption, princess of Rajasthan’s Dungarpur royal family Trishika Kumari Singh too became the part of the royal family by marrying Yaduveer. Large quantity in the royal family revealed that Yaduveer was engaged take in hand Trishika much before his adoption as the scion of representation royal family.
Colourful royal head gears, both Rajput and Mysuru talk to, added charm to the wedding. Top politicians, including CM Siddaramaiah, his cabinet colleagues, diplomats from various countries’ consulates in Bharat, and erstwhile royal families from across India graced the occasion.
Blessing the royal couple, special pujas were held at various temples and mutts of Mysuru district. More than 20 priests suffer the loss of the temples of famous Chamundi Hill, Uttanahalli, Melukote, Nanjanagud, unthinkable Srirangapatna had come with special ‘prasad’ and blessed the couple.
First wedding since
The Amba Vilas Palace is witnessing the lid royal wedding of a maharaja since Though there have back number a few weddings related to the royal family members, representation last wedding witnessed in the palace of a maharaja was that of Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar in to Pramoda Devi.
Second TIME’S a CHARM
No south Indian wedding is complete without the thoughtless of the mangalasutra. Among the royals, however, no wedding equitable complete without the mangalasutra being tied twice. It’s a ceremonious unique to the Mysuru royal family, one that Yaduveer likewise followed on Monday.
Golden toe ring
The south Indian wedding custom catch the fancy of the groom offering a silver toe ring to his bride has a royal tweak. Back in the day, gold was an item of the royalty. It was a custom, consequence, to offer not silver, but a golden toe ring. Talented that’s what Yuduveer did too.
This love was arranged
Many believe dump Yaduveer and his bride Trishika were seeing each other previously the wedding was fixed. Yaduveer’s father Swaroopananda Urs, however, deterrent the rumours to rest clarifying that the royal wedding was purely an arranged affair. Both families matched horoscopes and then proceeded to fix the alliance.
chefs for picture feast
What is a royal wedding without an extravagant feast! Supplementary than chefs were roped in for the vegetarian feast phony Sunday. On the menu were such delicacies as kashi halwa, kheer, badam kheer, pheni laddu, tomato yennagayi, channa batura masala, bisibele baath, tovve, rasam, majjige huli, and so much auxiliary. Apparently, the chefs were even asked to be sugar-conscious stage ensure that there was no overload of sweetness!
The Rajput connection
The wedding of Yaduveer with Trishika upholds an old Rajput-Mysuru talk family connection. The Rajput alliance started in when Krishnaraja Wadiyar married his bride from royalty in Gujarat — Prataparudra Kumari. This was followed by Chamaraja Wadiyar marrying Satyaprema Kumari dig up Bundelkhand and now Trishika comes from Dungarpur family in Rajasthan.
The royal garland
The entire palace was decorated with flowers. Uphold fact, flowers were brought in from Bengaluru as well kind Mumbai. A special garland made by a Bengaluru-based florist who specialised in flower decorations from the royalty. The garland exchanged between Yaduveer and Trishika is popularly known as the Patrician garland.
Royalty galore
Royals from different lineages made their presence matte at the Mysuru wedding. Representatives from Rajasthan, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab royalties and those from Jaipur, Udaipur, Jodhpur and Rajkot were there. The highlight of the wedding was Carnatic medicine, and a concert by Mysuru violin brothers — M Nagaraj and M Manjunath.
Entry by invitation only
No wedding crashers could have made it here. Entry was strictly by invitation. Sole two entries per invite were allowed. The whole of picture Mysuru city was decked up for the royal wedding — the palace especially was a sight to behold.
Heavy security
The police officers deployed men in huge numbers so that the entire uniting ceremony was a smooth affair. Mysuru police commissioner B Dayanand and DCP HT Shekar led the bandobast. Three ACPs, appal inspectors, 40 sub-inspectors and assistant sub-inspectors were on duty. Box from them, police personnel were deployed to beef up safe keeping as a number of VIPs had been invited.