A ceremony welcoming the newly wed bride to her new home, with the feet dipped in a mixture of milk and alta.

Alta or Mahawar is a red dye which women in (North) India apply with cotton on the border of their feet during marriages and religious festivals.^[1] During Durga Puja many Bengali women put Alta on their feet.

In certain areas of India^[which?] there is a tradition that after the wedding ceremony, when the bride enters her in-laws house for the first time, she steps in a plate of Alta before crossing the threshold with her right foot, leaving red footsteps behind her.^{[citation needed]}

See also[link]

• Mehndi

References[link]

External links[link]

• Alta or Mahawar; Indian Tradition of Decorating feet

Look up alta in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Alta or ALTA may refer to:

Acronyms[link]

• American Land Title Association, a national trade association representing the land title industry
• American Literary Translators Association, an association of literary translators in the United States
• Atlanta Lawn Tennis Association
• Australasian Language Technology Association, an association of computational linguists and people working in natural language processing that promotes language technology research and development in Australia and New Zealand
• Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance, а coalition of 13 international and Russian NGOs who have been co-operating in developing, financing and implementing conservation projects in Russia and China.
• America Library Trustee Association
• Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association,a private, non-profit organization, whose member airlines represent more than 90 percent of the region's commercial air traffic.

Place names[link]

• Alta, Norway
• Alta River, Ukraine

Canada

• "Alta.", an abbreviation for Alberta
• Alta Lake, British Columbia, a community now part of Whistler, British Columbia
• Alta Lake (British Columbia), a lake in Whistler, British Columbia
• Alta Creek is the official name of the River of Golden Dreams, in Whistler, British Columbia

Sweden

• Älta, a locality in Nacka Municipality

United States

• Alta California ("Upper California"), the Mexican territory that later became the U.S. state of California
• Alta, California, a town in Placer County
• Alta, Indiana
• Alta, Iowa
• Alta, Utah
  • Alta Ski Area
• Alta, West Virginia
  • Alta, Fayette County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Alta, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Alta, Wyoming
• Alta Lake State Park, Washington

Other uses[link]

• Alta (dye), a red paste used by women in India, to paint the borders of the feet
• Alta (poet) (Alta Gerrey), a poet and prose writer from Oakland, California
• Alta (novel), a fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey
• Alta (vehicles), a Greek manufacturer of cars, light trucks and motorcycles
• Alta Bike Share, a provider of bicycle sharing systems in the United States and Australia
• Alta Car and Engineering Company, an English automobile and a Formula One racing manufacturer
• Alta Group Newspapers, a defunct newspaper publisher in the northeastern United States
• Alta Newspaper Group, a newspaper publisher in Western Canada and Quebec
• Alta Records, Dallas, Texas

See also[link]

• Alta capella, a 20th century musicological term for Renaissance wind ensembles
• AltaVista, search engine
• Treno Alta Velocità, High Velocity Train
• Alto (disambiguation)
• Altamont (disambiguation)

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