Do you know why brides throw Dhan (paddy) or Haldi Akshat (rice) behind them when leaving their father's house after marriage? And why does her mother collect that Dhan or Haldi Akshat with her anchal?

It's because when Maa Mahalakshmi leaves the house, she takes all the wealth, prosperity, happiness, and peace of that house with her.

However, the daughter is such a Bhagya Lakshmi for her parents that even when she leaves her parental home after marriage, she wants to ensure that the wealth, prosperity, and happiness never leave her parental home. That's why she leaves a part of her virtue, wealth, prosperity, and happiness for her parents and enters the new house to make her own fortune.

For this reason, daughters throw Dhan and Haldi Akshat behind them at the time of farewell after marriage, leaving their virtue in their father's house along with wealth, prosperity, happiness, and peace.

The mother collects that punyo of Bhagya Lakshmi that resides in her daughter and keeps the punyo in the Mahalakshmi pot in their home Mandir along with Dhan, Haldi Akshat.

Courtesy: Magnificent Hindu Traditions