In English
It is an Indian custom that the bride and the bridegroom should pour on each others’ head a handful of sacred grain. Since and were of royal lineage, arrangements were made for and to pour precious pearls on each others’ head. The white pearls shone with orange splendour when they were in the hands of , for had painted her hands in red. When these pearls were placed on the white turban of , they shone white. When these pearls fell on the blue complexioned body of , they shone like sapphires.