{"id":6304,"date":"2007-09-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/09\/22\/hindu-council-uk-statement-on-nose-stud\/"},"modified":"2007-09-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T12:00:00","slug":"hindu-council-uk-statement-on-nose-stud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/09\/22\/hindu-council-uk-statement-on-nose-stud\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Council UK Statement on Nose Stud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hinducounciluk.org\/newsite\/circulardet.asp?rec=57\">www.hinducounciluk.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">LONDON, ENGLAND, September 20, 2007: The Hindu Council UK issued this statement: &#8220;Many Hindu women have their nose pierced and fitted with a stud for their wedding as part of the Shringar ritual. This ritual bestows sixteen different &#8216;marks of a married woman&#8217; on the bride; other marks include the bindi, the red dot on her forehead, the wearing of a mungal sutra, or wedding necklace and sindur, putting vermillion in the hair parting. These marks are not just the outward symbol of marriage &#8212; traditionally they are believed to help ensure the match is harmonious.<\/p>\n<p>Shringar is as integral a part of the Hindu wedding ceremony as the giving of a wedding ring is within a Christian marriage. Brides who choose to have their nose actually pierced and wear a stud for their wedding (it is not compulsory and many choose to wear a temporary clip on stud for their ceremonies) will want to continue to wear it as a sign of their married status. The Hindu Council UK agrees that wearing a nose stud is an integral part of this particular woman&#8217;s faith. If the company concerned allow wedding bands and earrings to be worn we do not see why Amrit Lalji should not be allowed to wear a small nose stud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HPI adds: In some Hindu communities, the nose ring is given when the girl comes of age.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hinducounciluk.org LONDON, ENGLAND, September 20, 2007: The Hindu Council UK issued this statement: &#8220;Many Hindu women have their nose pierced,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}