Seeing the rudeness of modern incivilized wives and more inclination of modern youths towards wives’ mothers’ side, Navrath decided not to marry. Whenever his parents conversed about this mater, he refused to talk. All the youths of the village of his age group got married. So many guardians of grownup girls approached for him also but he never nodded his head. One day, his sister sat on fast-unto-death to make his brother agree for marriage. Navrath could bear everything but he could not see tears in his sister’s eyes. Lastly, he bowed down and accepted to marry. He wore red dhoti and white kurta and started to Sauraath-Sabhaa.
Sauraath is a village in Madhubani district in Bihar. It is at a distance of 5km in the north- east of Madhubani town on Madhubani-Pokhrauni (a village on Darbhanga-Jaynagar NH) road. On the main road, there is a big orchard where Maithil Brahmans gather to settle the marriage of their sons and daughters. Now a day, it is quite defunct. A few persons reach to contact the panjikars (the persons who verify the dynasties of the boy and the girl so that no blood of the two families may match and who register their marriage) for registration (siddhant) of the marriages. There was time when approximately one lac people reached in sabha gaachhee. There was a proverb that when the number of persons reached one lac, the leaves of the oldest pipal tree faded. -------------- contd.
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