Sixteen great gifts

A modern adaptation of the *tulapurusha* ceremony: the girl is being weighed against the bananas (in place of gold); the bananas would be donated after the ceremony

The sixteen great gifts (Sanskrit: षोडश-महा-दान; IAST: Ṣoḍaśa-Mahā-dāna) refers to a category of ritual donations mentioned in the Puranic texts of ancient India.

The most prominent of these donations include the tula-purusha — weighing of a person and the donation of equivalent weight in gold, and hiranya-garbha — the donation of a golden pot.