Jain marriage bureau and matrimony service in Delhi

Evara Matrimony has been a Jain marriage bureau in Delhi since 2012, arranging Jain rishtey for Digambara and Svetambara families in India and abroad. Introductions follow your tradition, your sub-community and the Jain diet your household keeps. On membership, matches chosen for your family arrive each day; on Select or Reserve, a named relationship manager picks each one by hand. Joining is free. To start, call or WhatsApp +91 93555 66533, Monday to Saturday, 10 AM to 7 PM IST, or meet the team at the Pitampura office by appointment.

As a Jain marriage bureau, Evara starts where a Jain family starts: tradition, sub-community and diet. Tell us whether your household is Digambara or Svetambara, whether it is Oswal, Porwal, Agrawal Jain, Khandelwal or another community, and whether onion, garlic and root vegetables are kept out of the kitchen, and every introduction is weighed against those answers. Families in Delhi can meet the team in person; Jain families elsewhere in India and abroad meet on video first.

There are two ways to use this Jain matrimony service. On membership, matches chosen for your family arrive each day and nobody is assigned to you. On Select or Reserve, a named relationship manager picks each introduction by hand and is with you at family meetings. What membership, Select and Reserve cost is set out in the costs section below. Gotra, where your family observes it, stays a judgement for your family. Membership does not include a matchmaker, and the membership page sets out what selection involves and what the Select and Reserve tiers add. Is a matchmaker included.

For Jain families

Jainism is one of India’s oldest living religions, and for the families who follow it the faith is not confined to the temple. It shapes the kitchen, the calendar and the choices a household makes every day. At its heart lies ahimsa, non-violence toward every living being, and from that single principle flows much of what a Jain family holds dear. The tradition looks to twenty-four Tirthankaras, spiritual teachers, the last of whom, Mahavira, is traditionally placed in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE and whose teachings are still recited today.

When a Jain family looks for an alliance, they are looking for a household that already shares these bearings, or one that will honour them. That is why a good introduction begins not with a checklist but with an understanding of how a family actually observes its faith. Jains are the most literate religious community recorded in India’s 2011 Census, and families tend to weigh education and shared conviction together. Our work is to listen closely to both.

The two traditions

Jainism has two major traditions, and understanding which a family follows is often the first practical question in a match. The Digambara, whose name means sky-clad, hold that a fully renounced monk owns nothing at all, not even clothing; the Svetambara, meaning white-clad, hold that monks may wear simple white robes. The difference runs deeper than dress, touching scripture, ritual and the observance of festivals, and both traditions have flourished in different regions of India for many centuries.

In matchmaking this matters because many Jain families prefer to marry within their own tradition, where temple practice and household observance already align. Others are open across the Digambara and Svetambara traditions where the two families find common ground in values and daily life. Neither choice is better than the other, and no family is above or below another on this page or in our work. Our task is to understand precisely where your family stands and to ask early, so that introductions fit from the start.

Sub-communities

Jain is not a single group. Across the community you will find the Oswal, the Porwal, the Agrawal Jain, the Khandelwal, the Shrimal and the Humad, among others. These names are threads of family and regional history, many of them tracing back to towns and clans in Rajasthan and Gujarat, and each carries its own network of relatives, customs and, often, preferences about whom to marry within or across. They are matters of identity, not status, and we hold them exactly that way. Some of these names, among them Oswal and Agrawal, are shared with Marwari families, and our page on Marwari matchmaking explains how we approach those searches.

What this means in practice is that a family’s brief is specific. Some families wish to match strictly within their sub-community, where extended networks already overlap. Others are open across Jain sub-communities, or between the two traditions, provided the essentials of faith and diet align. Some care most about the person and the household and are open on community altogether. We map exactly where your family sits, and we never assume.