Buddhist Marriage Biodata Format in English and Marathi

Below are three complete Buddhist marriage biodata formats, one for a girl, one for a boy and one in Marathi, and all three paste straight into Word or Google Docs. Most of a Buddhist biodata is the same as anyone else's. It differs in three places: the religion row, the line at the top, and whether the horoscope rows stay.

Each of those has its own section after the formats. For why the general sections are there at all, the marriage biodata format guide covers the basics.

What to change in a downloaded format

Some free formats online are Hindu formats with a new heading. They still open with ॥ श्री गणेशाय नमः ॥ and carry rows like rashi, gan and gotra. Before you fill one in:

• Change the line at the top, or remove it. The section on it below has the options.
• Drop gan, nadi, devak and kuldevata unless your family really uses them.
• Drop birth time, rashi, nakshatra and manglik unless your family matches kundlis.
• Keep the religion row as "Religion: Buddhist".

Delete what doesn't apply rather than writing "N/A" beside it. A row of N/As tells the reader the format wasn't made for you. If you need a format for another religion in the family, the Hindu, Sikh and Jain guides do the same thing for theirs.

Buddhist marriage biodata format for a girl

Plenty of people write their own biodata now, and the first person suits that. This one is from a dentist in Pune whose family lives in Nagpur. Her family doesn't match kundlis, so there's no horoscope section, and the age does the job a birth date would.

॥ नमो बुद्धाय ॥

PERSONAL DETAILS
Name: Snehal Gaikwad
Age: 27
Height: 5 ft 3 in
Marital Status: Never married
Religion: Buddhist
Mother Tongue: Marathi
Native Place: Nagpur
Current Location: Pune

EDUCATION & CAREER
Education: BDS (2021), MDS, Orthodontics (2025)
Occupation: Orthodontist at a dental clinic in Pune
Annual Income: ₹14 lakh per annum

LIFESTYLE
Food: Non-vegetarian
Alcohol: No
Smoking: No

FAMILY DETAILS
Father: Prakash Gaikwad, retired section officer, state irrigation
department
Mother: Vaishali Gaikwad, teacher at a municipal school in Nagpur
Siblings: One younger brother, final-year B.Tech student in Nagpur
Family Background: The family has lived in Nagpur for three
generations. My parents live there, and I've been in Pune since 2022.

ABOUT ME
I straighten teeth for a living, which mostly means seeing the same
patients every month for two years and getting to know them rather
well. I moved to Pune for my MDS and stayed for the work. Weekends are
for long walks on the hill near my flat and badly made dosas that I
insist on making myself. I'd like to keep practising after marriage,
and I'm happy to stay in Pune or move back to Nagpur.

PARTNER PREFERENCES
Age: 28 to 32
Education: Postgraduate preferred
Profession: Working professional
Religion: Buddhist preferred
Location: Pune or Nagpur

CONTACT
Phone: 98XXXXXX31
Email: snehal.gaikwad@example.com

Two choices here are worth copying. "Buddhist preferred" rather than "Buddhist only" tells a family of another religion that they can still get in touch. And with no horoscope section, nobody is left looking for a birth time that was never going to be there.

For the questions girls get asked about most, like height, salary and photos, see the marriage biodata format for a girl.

Buddhist marriage biodata format for a boy, written by a parent

Parents often put a son's biodata together, and it reads naturally in the third person when they do. This one is from a family in Lucknow whose son teaches at a government college there. The family speaks Hindi at home and doesn't use a line at the top.

PERSONAL DETAILS
Name: Rahul Gautam
Age: 30
Height: 5 ft 9 in
Marital Status: Never married
Religion: Buddhist
Mother Tongue: Hindi
Native Place: Lucknow
Current Location: Lucknow

EDUCATION & CAREER
Education: MA, History (2019); PhD, History, Lucknow University (2024)
Occupation: Assistant Professor of History at a government degree
college in Lucknow
Annual Income: ₹11 lakh per annum

LIFESTYLE
Food: Vegetarian
Alcohol: No
Smoking: No

FAMILY DETAILS
Father: Ramesh Chandra Gautam, retired from Indian Railways
Mother: Sunita Gautam, homemaker
Siblings: One elder sister, married, a bank officer in Kanpur
Family Background: The family has lived in Lucknow since 1985. Rahul
lives with us, and we'd like that to continue after his marriage.

ABOUT RAHUL
Rahul has wanted to teach since school, and he's now in his second year
at the college. His PhD was on the history of the railways in Awadh,
which may explain why his father and he can talk about trains for an
entire evening. He plays table tennis at the university club and reads
more than he can find shelf space for. He'd like a partner who has
interests of her own and is happy to make a home in Lucknow.

PARTNER PREFERENCES
Age: 25 to 29
Education: Graduate or above
Religion: Buddhist; open to other religions
Location: Willing to settle in Lucknow

CONTACT
Phone: +91 94XXXXXX08 (father, Ramesh Chandra Gautam)
Email: gautam.family@example.com

Two lines do most of the work. "Rahul lives with us, and we'd like that to continue" answers a question both families want settled early, and "Willing to settle in Lucknow" tells a reader in another city where things stand. And if your family is open to other religions, as Rahul's is, write it down. Nobody can act on an openness they can't see.

The marriage biodata format for a boy covers the questions men tend to get pressed on, such as income, property and where you'll live after marriage.

Buddhist marriage biodata format in Marathi

About three in four of India's Buddhists live in Maharashtra (65.3 lakh of 84.4 lakh in the 2011 Census), so many Buddhist biodatas are written in Marathi. This one is a girl's, from a family near Nashik. It's written in Marathi from the start, not translated from the formats above.

॥ नमो बुद्धाय ॥

वैयक्तिक माहिती
नाव : कु. प्राजक्ता सुनील वानखेडे
वय : २६ वर्षे
उंची : ५ फूट २ इंच
रक्तगट : B+
धर्म : बौद्ध
शिक्षण : B.Com. (२०२१), MBA फायनान्स (२०२३)
नोकरी : सहायक व्यवस्थापक, खासगी बँक, नाशिक
वार्षिक उत्पन्न : ₹९ लाख
मूळ गाव : पिंपळगाव बसवंत, ता. निफाड, जि. नाशिक
सध्याचे वास्तव्य : नाशिक

कौटुंबिक माहिती
वडील : श्री. सुनील रामदास वानखेडे, एस.टी. महामंडळातून सेवानिवृत्त
आई : सौ. रंजना सुनील वानखेडे, गृहिणी
भाऊ : चि. अजय (धाकटा), सॉफ्टवेअर इंजिनिअर, पुणे; अविवाहित
मामा : श्री. अशोक गायकवाड, नागपूर

माझ्याविषयी
मी नाशिकमधील एका खासगी बँकेत सहायक व्यवस्थापक म्हणून काम करते.
संध्याकाळी गोदाकाठी फिरायला मला आवडते आणि रविवारी मी आईसोबत
स्वयंपाक करते. लग्नानंतरही नोकरी सुरू ठेवण्याची माझी इच्छा आहे.

अपेक्षा
वय : २७ ते ३१ वर्षे
शिक्षण : पदवीधर किंवा त्याहून अधिक
नोकरी/व्यवसाय : नोकरी किंवा स्वतःचा व्यवसाय
धर्म : बौद्ध असल्यास प्राधान्य
ठिकाण : नाशिक किंवा पुणे

संपर्क
मोबाईल : 98XXXXXX56 (वडील)

A few things in it are how Marathi biodatas are usually written. कु. (kumari) goes before a girl's name, and चि. (chiranjeev) before a boy's. The name runs first name, father's name, surname. The native place gives the taluka and district (ता., जि.), a रक्तगट row gives the blood group, and a मामा row names the mother's brother. Keep the ones your family uses and drop the rest.

Word and Google Docs both handle Marathi, though you may need to add a Marathi keyboard to your phone first.

The religion row

"Religion: Buddhist" is complete. It's what most families in the community call themselves, and it's what a reader expects to see. On a biodata written in Marathi, the row reads धर्म: बौद्ध.

Religion: Buddhist

धर्म: बौद्ध

You'll see "Neo-Buddhist" on some downloaded formats and matrimony sites. It's mostly a label other people use, and some families would rather not be described by it, so "Buddhist" is the safer word.

The line at the top

Many Marathi Buddhist biodatas open with ॥ नमो बुद्धाय ॥ (Namo Buddhay, a salutation to the Buddha), often under a picture of the Buddha, Dr Ambedkar or both. Some families add जय भीम (Jai Bhim), the greeting used by followers of Dr Ambedkar, on the same line or the next. A biodata without a top line is fine too. Use what your family uses.

॥ नमो बुद्धाय ॥

॥ नमो बुद्धाय ॥ ॥ जय भीम ॥

|| Namo Buddhay ||

Horoscope rows: keep them only if your family uses them

Many Buddhist families in Maharashtra don't match kundlis at all, and for them a request for the exact time of birth can come across as rude. Practice varies elsewhere. In Ladakh, families often consult an astrologer before a marriage, and some families in other states still match kundlis. So these rows are your family's call, not the religion's.

If your family doesn't use them, give your age and leave out birth time, birth place, rashi, nakshatra and manglik. Both formats above do this. If your family does use them, add them as a short block:

Date of Birth: 14 March 1999
Time of Birth: 06:40 AM
Place of Birth: Nagpur

If your family needs rashi, nakshatra and manglik too, here's how to fill in the horoscope rows from a kundli.

Caste and community lines

Some biodatas carry a caste or community line, and some families look for it. If it's a real condition for your family, write it in one line with no commentary, because a condition nobody stated tends to come up later, at a worse moment. If it isn't, leave the row out.

Partner preferences

Most of what goes here is the same for any family: age, education, work and city. The line that varies is religion:

Religion: Buddhist

Religion: Buddhist preferred

Religion: Buddhist; open to other religions

Religion: No bar

Pick "preferred" or "only" on purpose. Readers treat whatever's written as a requirement, so "preferred" keeps open a door that "only" closes. The partner expectations guide has more on telling a real condition from a preference.

Copy it into Word or Google Docs

1. Copy the format that's closer to yours and paste it into a new Word or Google Docs file.
2. Change the details to yours, bold the section headings, and delete every row that doesn't apply.
3. Download it as a PDF, so it opens the same way on every phone it's forwarded to.

Before it goes out, how to share a marriage biodata covers the choice between a file and a link.

What to leave off

• Dowry, in any wording. That includes lines about gold, or about what the family "will give". Demanding dowry is an offence under section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961.
• Your home address. A city is enough. The family details guide explains how quickly a locality, your parents' names and an employer add up to a findable house.
• A photo that isn't you now. Use a recent one in which you look the way you do day to day. The other family will meet the person in the photo.

Common mistakes

A Hindu format with a new heading. If ॥ श्री गणेशाय नमः ॥ or a gan row is still on the page, the reader will notice before they reach your name.

Horoscope rows nobody will read. If your family doesn't match kundlis, delete them. Don't fill them in because the format had them.

"Buddhist only" when you mean "Buddhist preferred". Readers take what's written as a requirement. If it's a preference, say so.

Adjectives in place of facts. "Well-educated, cultured, from a respected family" turns up on biodata after biodata, so it tells nobody anything. One line about what you actually do tells them more.

Making it on Marriage Profile

A biodata on Marriage Profile lives at one link that stays the same when you edit it. So when it's being forwarded between Nagpur, Pune and a cousin in Bengaluru, every family is looking at the same, current version.

Religion is a dropdown in the Astrology & Culture step, and Buddhist is one of the options. It prints with your personal details. There's no built-in field for a tradition or school, but you can add your own at the end of the Personal Details step, each one a name and its details. The free plan includes two of these per biodata.

Caste is optional. If you fill it in, it also appears in the preview card when your link is pasted into a chat, so leave it empty unless you want it there. Anything you leave blank doesn't appear on the biodata or in its PDF, and if every birth detail is empty, the Astrology section disappears entirely. One thing to know: a date of birth, if you add one, appears under a heading called Astrology even when there's no horoscope. Age has its own field, so you can leave the date out.

The line at the top has no place on the profile, and the only photo at the top is your own. A profile photo is required before you can publish. If you'd rather it didn't travel freely, make the biodata private with a view password, and give that password only to the families you choose. Password protection is part of the paid plans.

The biodata can be read in English, Hindi, Marathi or Gujarati from the same link, and in Marathi and Hindi the religion row reads धर्म: बौद्ध. If you choose Marathi, read it through once in Marathi before you send it. You can also download it as a PDF when a family wants a file, and the template gallery shows the same details in eight designs.