Priest performing puja before Bor Jatra, Manipur wedding

In the afternoon of the wedding day, after the bridegroom is fully dressed up, he will be seated on a new Kouna phak (chatai) covered with a white cloth on the right side of the corridor of the house facing eastward. This is a simple ceremony with eratphu, filled half of water and a mirror with stand placed in front of the groom so that he can see himself in the mirror. The Priest or the Maiba will perform puja at the auspicious moment.

Manipur (Kangleipak), is a state in northeastern India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. Its people include the Meitei, Pangal (Muslims), Naga, and Kuki, Zomi and Gorkhali (Nepali) who speak different languages of branches of the Tibeto-Burman family. The state is bounded by Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south, and Assam to the west; Burma lies to the east. It covers an area of 22,327 square kilometres (8,621 sq mi).

The Meitei, who live primarily in the state's valley region, form the primary ethnic group (60% of the total population). The term Meitei now refers to five social groups -- the Meitei marup (believe in only Meitei culture and God), Meitei Christians, Meitei goura Chaytonya (believe in both Meitei and Hindu gods), the Meitei Brahmins (Manipuri Brahmin locally called "Bamons") and the Meitei Muslims (called Miah Meitei or Pangal). All of them have Meiteilon as their mother-tongue. Their language, Meiteilon (also known as Manipuri), is the lingua franca in the state

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