Marriage biodata formats, by language and by whom it is for
One document, six different sets of questions. Pick the page that matches what you are actually writing.
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A marriage biodata is a one-page document that introduces a person and their family to another family considering a match. The format is broadly settled — seven blocks in a conventional order — but what actually belongs in it varies a great deal: by language, because the row labels are conventional rather than translatable; by community, because a family that does not exchange horoscopes has no use for a third of the rows; and by whom the biodata is for, because a girl's and a boy's biodata are read against different questions even though they look identical on the page.
These six pages are written for those differences rather than around them. The format page is the reference: every block, every row, and what each one is asked for. The Hindi and Marathi pages are vocabulary — the conventional Devanagari labels with English glosses, and in Marathi's case the dozen rows where the Marathi word is genuinely not the Hindi one. The girl's and boy's pages cover the decisions that differ in substance: circulation, the contact row and the optional complexion row on one; income, housing and living arrangements on the other. The simple format page commits to a fourteen-row minimum, for a first contact or for a family that does not use the traditional rows at all.
All six end in the same place: a free biodata maker that opens on a finished document in English, Hindi or Marathi, which you type over and download as a one-page PDF with real selectable text. No account, no watermark, and nothing held back at the download.
The six guides
- English · start hereMarriage biodata formatThe reference page: all seven blocks in English, every row, and what each one is actually asked for.
- HindiBiodata format in HindiThe conventional Devanagari labels with English glosses — and why a Hindi biodata so often exports as empty rectangles.
- MarathiBiodata format in MarathiMarathi labels with English glosses, the rows only Marathi biodatas carry, and a side-by-side table of the words people get wrong.
- EnglishMarriage biodata for a girlThe rows that filter, the rows that are optional, and the contact and photo decisions worth making before the file is exported.
- EnglishMarriage biodata for a boyThe money, housing and household rows — how specific to be, what gets checked, and the two questions worth answering on page one.
- EnglishSimple biodata formatA committed fourteen-row minimum, what replaces the horoscope block where it does not apply, and why shorter is not automatically better.
Three things that are true on every biodata, whichever page you need
One A4 page
It is read on a phone and forwarded, and a second page is a second file that often does not travel with the first. Go to two pages only for a full janm-patrika, a family and relation block that genuinely runs long, or a property and business statement the family wants in full.
A PDF with real text, not a screenshot
An image is unreadable after a few forwards, cannot be printed for a family meeting, and cannot be found again by searching for a name. This matters more for a Devanagari biodata than an English one, because the matras above the headline stroke are the first thing recompression destroys.
Nothing that identifies you beyond the match
No Aadhaar or PAN number, no document scans, no employee ID, and no full postal address on a copy that is going to be forwarded. Area and city are enough for anybody deciding whether to call, and a document built to be forwarded cannot be recalled once it has been.
Start from a finished biodata, not a blank form
The maker opens on a complete one-page biodata in English, Hindi or Marathi. Type over it, add a photograph if you want one, and download a PDF with real selectable text. No account, no watermark, nothing held back at the download.