Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wodeyar, the 24-year old titular king of Mysuru and a Wodeyar dynasty scion, married Trishika Kumari Singh of the Dungarpur royal family in a traditional ceremony at Amba Vilas Palace in Mysuru on Monday.
The ceremony was officiated by a battery of priests in the presence of about 1,000 guests at the specially decorated ‘Kalyana Mantapa’ of the palace. Trishika is the daughter of Harshvardhan Singh and Maheshri Kumari of the Dungarpur family of Rajasthan.
Yaduveer is the 27th king of the Wodeyar dynasty. He was crowned titular head of the Mysuru royal family on May 28, 2015. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his Cabinet colleagues, diplomats from several countries, and erstwhile royal families have been invited for the wedding, and receptions to be held on June 28 and July 2 in Mysuru and Bengaluru, respectively.
Both Yaduveer and Trishika completed the rituals that took more than an hour with shloka chanting and guidance from the priests. Later, Yaduveer tied the 'mangalyam' to Trishika during the auspicious Savithri Muhoorta of Karkataka Lagna. The couple, after completing the ritual of 'Sapthapadi', obtained blessings from Pramoda Devi Wadiyar, the wife of the late Narasimharaja Wadiyar.
The Boston-educated Yaduveer (24) was adopted as the scion of the former Wadiyar dynasty in May 2015 in an elaborate ceremony, again to re-emphasise the point that it is a 'royal' tradition. Sources in the family revealed that Yaduveer was engaged to Trishika much before his adoption as the scion of the "royal family".
No Hindu wedding in the 'royal' family is complete without the mangalasutra being tied twice. It's a ritual unique to the descendants of the former Mysuru royal family, one that Yaduveer too followed.
