Types of Marriages

Different types of Vivaha or Marriage

Marriage is taken as an indissoluble and sacred institution. 

In some countries due to local law, it is a contract and can be dissolved at any time. 

In astrology, the marriage is governed by the planetary disposition at the time of birth. The astrologer can thus read the indications and the tendencies of a happy marriage or otherwise.

In Hinduism, the marriage can be broken down into groups as follows:

1. Devas (Gods) ~ This is marriage that is settled in heaven by the Gods and is ruled by Jupiter.

2. Manushya (Humans) ~ This means that the marriage is settled in the community by the elder persons of the family and is controlled by a strong and benefic Venus.

3. Rakshasas (Demons) ~ This is marriage performed against the will of the female by force and is the result of an afflicted Venus by Saturn and Mars.

4. Gandharva Vivaha ~ This last one can be an intercast, inter-religion or international type of marriage indicator along with the 3rd group and states that the marriage is settled between a male and female of their own free will. It is ruled by Venus and Mars, where Venus is afflicted by Mars, either by sight or association. Svayamvara may also fit in this category.

The karaka for marriage is Venus. It also governs the women, wife, sexual happiness, beauty, love making, poetry, dancing, music, singing, flowers, scents, decoration, art, etc.

The position of Venus and its lordship is also very important. It becomes spoiled (weak) in Krittika, Ardra, and the Mula nakshatras. It becomes moderately spoiled in Jyeshta. If it does not have benefic sight of Jupiter, it may give multiple relations/ marriages. Venus gets even more spoiled if it becomes associated or aspected by Saturn. Saturn is the planet that brings delay in both cases, whether it be by means of benefic or malefic sight or association. Whether we consider it benefic for a good reason or malefic for a bad reason, a delay will still be there in any case.

Saturn enhances the negative qualities of Venus and if it is aspected by Jupiter, it controls and modifies the result somewhat better.

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The marriage is mainly based on mutual attraction, physical fitness, mental quality, heredity, sexual compatibility, and social and economical status. The lagna or the ascendant governs the physical fitness, the Moon rules the emotional mind and the mental quality, and the Sun governs the spirit and the status. Hence the observation of these three is very necessary, the lagna, the Sun and the Moon.

Therefore, before finding the result for marriage and before coming to any conclusions, we must study the several factors very keenly.