Biodata format in Hindi: every row labelled in हिन्दी, with English glosses

A Hindi biodata is not an English one translated. Here are the labels north Indian families actually expect, what belongs in each, and the two technical traps that turn a Hindi PDF into boxes.

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Why a Hindi biodata is its own document

Search demand for a Hindi biodata is not an artefact of translation. It is families who read Hindi choosing to send and receive this document in Hindi. A biodata in Devanagari is read faster by the people it is meant for, it is read aloud correctly at a family gathering, and it is handed to a pandit who is going to work from the horoscope rows and has no particular reason to be reading English.

What makes it a different document rather than a translated one is that the labels are conventional. Families expect “जन्म तिथि” and not a fresh rendering of “date of birth”, “ऊँचाई” and not “लंबाई”, “शैक्षणिक योग्यता” and not “शिक्षा स्तर”. All of those alternatives are perfectly good Hindi, and all of them make a reader stop for half a second to decode a row they should have recognised. On a document that is skimmed in ten seconds that is a real cost, which is why the useful part of this page is the vocabulary rather than the theory.

It is also completely normal for a Hindi biodata to be mixed-script, and nobody reads that as sloppiness. Personal names, degree abbreviations, employer names, the blood group and the rupee figure are routinely left in Latin — B.Tech, HDFC Bank, O+, ₹12 लाख — because that is how they appear on the certificates and the salary slip they came from. Translating an employer's name into Devanagari, by contrast, makes it unverifiable for the family that wanted to look it up.

The Hindi labels, row by row

The Devanagari label, the English gloss, and what actually goes in the value. Where Hindi practice offers two spellings, the one given is the one the shipped Hindi sample uses — the wording a north Indian reader recognises fastest.

व्यक्तिगत विवरणPersonal details

The filter block. A bureau reads these eight rows and little else before deciding whether to forward the document at all.

जन्म तिथिDate of Birth: The full date: “9 नवंबर 1995”. Devanagari digits are traditional and Latin digits are what almost everybody now uses — pick one set and keep to it through the whole document, including the phone number and the income.
जन्म समयTime of Birth: Write it with प्रातः, दोपहर, सायं or रात्रि rather than AM and PM if the rest of the document is in Hindi — “प्रातः 6:40”. Take the time from the birth certificate, because the nakshatra moves with it and everything the pandit produces is built on it.
जन्म स्थानPlace of Birth: Town and state. The astrologer needs a location for the chart, not the name of the hospital.
ऊँचाईHeight: Feet and inches with centimetres in brackets: “5 फुट 9 इंच (175 सेमी)”. Note फुट and इंच rather than the English words, and check the chandrabindu in ऊँचाई — transliteration keyboards get it wrong more often than any other label on the page.
रक्त समूहBlood Group: The value stays in Latin — “O+” — because that is how it is printed on every report.
रंगComplexion: Also written as “वर्ण”. Values are usually गोरा, गेहुँआ or सांवला. The row is optional, a large number of families now omit it, and that is a choice you are entitled to make on your own document.
आहारDiet: शाकाहारी, मांसाहारी, अंडा-शाकाहारी. A genuine filter in most Hindi-speaking households and the cheapest row on the page.
वैवाहिक स्थितिMarital Status: अविवाहित, तलाकशुदा, विधुर or विधवा. Write it plainly; it is established at the talks stage in every case, and a late discovery is treated as worse than the fact.

धार्मिक विवरणReligious and horoscope details

The block a pandit works from. Include all of it or none of it — a blank astrological row invites a phone call, and if your family does not do कुंडली मिलान the whole section should come off.

धर्मReligion: हिन्दू, मुस्लिम, सिख, जैन, ईसाई.
जाति / उपजातिCaste / Sub-caste: Both, because the sub-caste is what most families actually match on — “ब्राह्मण / कान्यकुब्ज”, “अग्रवाल (वैश्य)”. If caste is not part of your search, delete the row rather than writing “कोई भी” in it.
गोत्रGotra: The exogamous clan name — कश्यप, भारद्वाज, गर्ग. It is on the page to be checked against the other side's, since most Hindi-speaking communities do not marry within the same gotra. Some families also ask for माता का गोत्र.
राशिRashi (moon sign): From the birth chart: वृश्चिक, कन्या, मीन. Not the sun sign from a newspaper column.
नक्षत्रNakshatra: The birth star with its charan: “अनुराधा, द्वितीय चरण”. Ordinals here are conventionally प्रथम, द्वितीय, तृतीय, चतुर्थ rather than 1st to 4th.
मांगलिकManglik: “नहीं”, “हाँ”, or the finer reading where one has been given — “पूर्ण मांगलिक” or “आंशिक मांगलिक”. This is the most-asked single row on a Hindi biodata and a blank one is read as हाँ.
गण / नाड़ीGan / Nadi: देव, मनुष्य or राक्षस गण; आदि, मध्य or अंत्य नाड़ी. Both are derived from the nakshatra and both feed the 36-गुण मिलान, so putting them on the page saves the other family a call to their pandit.

शिक्षा एवं व्यवसायEducation and career

Five rows. Degrees and employer names sit in whichever script the certificate uses; everything around them is Hindi.

शैक्षणिक योग्यताQualification: Highest degree, subject, university and year: “एम.बी.ए. (मार्केटिंग), लखनऊ विश्वविद्यालय — 2020”. Degrees are commonly written in Devanagari with full stops as here, or left as “MBA”; both read fine, but not both in the same document.
पेशाOccupation: Also written “व्यवसाय”. The job as an outsider understands it, not the internal grade — “सीनियर रिलेशनशिप मैनेजर, निजी बैंक”.
संस्थानOrganisation: Name the employer. “एक प्रतिष्ठित कंपनी” is read as evasion, and the families who cannot look an employer up assume there is a reason.
कार्यस्थलWork location: City and state, because this is where the couple would live and both sides are calculating from it.
वार्षिक आयAnnual Income: “₹12 लाख प्रतिवर्ष”. लाख and करोड़ are the right units for this reader; converting to millions makes the row harder to read, not more precise.

पारिवारिक विवरणFamily details

The other family is being assessed as much as the individual is, and in Hindi-speaking practice this block is often read before the career one.

पिता का नामFather's Name: With श्री. Write the name as it appears on documents rather than as the family shortens it, because both sides cross-check it.
पिता का पेशाFather's Occupation: With the line of work if it is a business, and सेवानिवृत्त if retired: “सेवानिवृत्त प्रधानाचार्य, राजकीय इंटर कॉलेज”.
माता का नामMother's Name: With श्रीमती. On a Marathi biodata the same row uses सौ. instead, which is one of the small differences between the two label sets.
माता का पेशाMother's Occupation: “गृहिणी” is an occupation and is written as one.
भाई / बहनSiblings: One line each: elder or younger, married or not, what they do and where. “एक बड़ी बहन — विवाहित, कानपुर में निवास”. Whether a sibling is still to be married is a practical question for the other side.
परिवार का प्रकारFamily Type: “संयुक्त परिवार” or “एकल परिवार”. This is a live question rather than a formality: it describes the household somebody would be joining.
मूल निवासNative Place: The ancestral district or town — “सीतापुर, उत्तर प्रदेश”. It locates the family for any reader who knows the region, and that recognition is often what moves a match along.

मेरे बारे मेंAbout Me

Three sentences in the first person, in Hindi, and in your own register rather than a formal one. This is the only block on the page a reader can tell was written rather than filled in.

What you do, where the family is from and how the household runs, and one or two things you actually spend your time on. The shipped Hindi sample is a good length to copy: the job and the branch, the family's roots in Sitapur and how the household keeps its festivals, then classical music and Sunday cricket with the neighbourhood team. Concrete beats impressive.

The failure mode in Hindi specifically is the stock virtue list — “सरल, संस्कारी, मिलनसार, परिवार को मानने वाला” — which appears on so many biodatas that a reader's eye now passes straight over it. One real detail is worth four adjectives, and it is the detail somebody quotes back to you when they call.

जीवनसाथी से अपेक्षाएँPartner Expectations

Two or three sentences: age band, education, diet, city, and the one thing that genuinely matters to you. Written as अपेक्षाएँ rather than as conditions — this is the one block where tone changes outcomes.

Leave out anything you have no real preference about. A list of twelve items with “कोई भी” after half of them reads as a form somebody completed rather than a position somebody holds, and the items a reader remembers are the restrictive ones.

State the two things families most often leave implicit and then argue about: whether the woman intends to work after marriage, and where the couple would live. The shipped Hindi sample says each in a single clause — “नौकरी करना या न करना पूरी तरह उनका निर्णय होगा”, and a note that the family is settled in Lucknow. That is the right amount of directness: enough to filter, not enough to read as a demand.

संपर्क विवरणContact Details

Three rows, and worth settling before the file is exported rather than after it is in three WhatsApp groups.

संपर्क व्यक्तिContact Person: Name and relationship: “श्री रमाकांत मिश्रा (पिता)”. A reader needs to know how to open the call and how to address whoever answers.
संपर्क नंबरPhone: Also written “मोबाइल नंबर”. One number that is answered; two at most, labelled.
पताAddress: On a copy going into a WhatsApp group the area and city are enough. The full address belongs on a printed copy handed to one family.

Typing Devanagari without a Hindi keyboard

Almost nobody types Devanagari with a Devanagari keymap. On Android, Gboard's Hindi layout has a transliteration mode: type “janm tithi” and it offers जन्म तिथि. The iOS Hindi keyboard behaves the same way, and on a laptop Google Input Tools does it inside the browser.

Two things go wrong in practice. Transliteration guesses nasals and long vowels, so check ऊँचाई, गेहुँआ, अपेक्षाएँ and anything else carrying a chandrabindu by eye — those are the labels that come out subtly wrong and then get copied into every version of the document. And once you have switched layouts, Latin fragments typed inside the Hindi keyboard can pick up the wrong quotation marks and dashes; type the English bits with the English keyboard.

The font trap: why a Hindi biodata prints as boxes

This is the most common technical failure with a Hindi biodata and it has nothing to do with the text being wrong. Most document tools and most web builders load a Latin font only. Paste Devanagari into one and the screen may look perfectly correct, because your browser quietly borrows a font from your own computer — while the exported PDF, rendered on a server that has no Hindi font installed, comes out as rows of empty rectangles. The tofu boxes.

Two checks catch it before you send the file to fifty families. Open the exported PDF and try to select a line of Hindi: if the selection highlights the glyphs and you can copy them out as Devanagari, the font is genuinely embedded. Then send the PDF to somebody else's phone and ask what they see, because your own device is the one machine guaranteed to have the font you used.

PaperKit's builder self-hosts Noto Sans Devanagari and the PDF is rendered by a headless browser on the same server that serves the font, which is why Hindi comes out as real, selectable, printable text rather than as a picture of text. That is an architectural detail rather than a feature, but it is the one that decides whether a Hindi biodata is usable.

One page, print and WhatsApp

One page, in Hindi as in English, and the same rule about a second page: it is a second file and it frequently does not travel with the first. If a जन्मपत्री is being sent, send it as its own PDF with its own filename rather than as page two of the biodata — families screenshot the first page constantly, and a forward of that screenshot has silently dropped the chart.

Export as PDF, never as an image. A Hindi biodata suffers more than an English one from being sent as a screenshot, because Devanagari carries more fine detail per line: the matras above the headline stroke are the first thing messaging-app recompression destroys, and a lost matra can change a word rather than merely blur it.

Name the file with a Latin transliteration of the name — “Aditya_Mishra_Biodata.pdf”. A Devanagari filename is perfectly legal and a number of older Android file managers and email clients still mangle it, and a file nobody can find again is a file nobody forwards.

Where Hindi biodatas usually go wrong

Translating the labels instead of using the conventional ones
“लंबाई” for height and “जन्म दिनांक” for date of birth are both good Hindi and both make a reader hesitate, because the rows they expected were ऊँचाई and जन्म तिथि. Convention beats correctness here: the entire job of a label is instant recognition.
Mixing Devanagari and Latin digits
“12 मार्च” in one row and “१९९८” in the next looks like two people wrote the document. Choose one set of digits and use it everywhere, including the phone number and the income figure.
Leaving मांगलिक blank
In Hindi-speaking practice this is the most-asked single row on the page, and an empty one is read as हाँ. Either answer it, or remove the whole astrological block because your family does not use it.
Sending a JPG of a Hindi biodata
Recompression eats matras and anusvara. After three forwards a Hindi biodata sent as an image is genuinely hard to read, and it cannot be printed at A4 for a family meeting.
Half-translated section headings
A Hindi biodata with “Partner Expectations” still sitting above an otherwise Hindi paragraph tells the reader you used a template and did not finish it. Check the seven block headings, not only the rows.
Devanagari inside an image
Some designed templates ship the labels as part of a background graphic. The result looks right and is unsearchable, uncopyable and impossible to correct — and if your name is in the image too, nobody can find the file by searching for it.

Questions people actually ask

How do I write a marriage biodata in Hindi?

Use the conventional Hindi labels rather than translating English ones, and keep the same seven blocks: व्यक्तिगत विवरण, धार्मिक विवरण, शिक्षा एवं व्यवसाय, पारिवारिक विवरण, मेरे बारे में, जीवनसाथी से अपेक्षाएँ and संपर्क विवरण. Leave personal names, degree abbreviations, employer names, the blood group and the rupee figure in Latin script, which is what families do in practice. Then check that the exported PDF really contains selectable Devanagari rather than empty boxes, because that is where most Hindi biodatas actually fail.

Which labels does a Hindi marriage biodata use?

The recognised set is जन्म तिथि, जन्म समय, जन्म स्थान, ऊँचाई, रक्त समूह, रंग, आहार and वैवाहिक स्थिति for personal details; धर्म, जाति / उपजाति, गोत्र, राशि, नक्षत्र, मांगलिक and गण / नाड़ी for the horoscope block; शैक्षणिक योग्यता, पेशा, संस्थान, कार्यस्थल and वार्षिक आय for education and career; and पिता का नाम, पिता का पेशा, माता का नाम, माता का पेशा, भाई / बहन, परिवार का प्रकार and मूल निवास for the family block. The contact rows are संपर्क व्यक्ति, संपर्क नंबर and पता, and the two prose blocks are headed मेरे बारे में and जीवनसाथी से अपेक्षाएँ.

Should the whole biodata be in Hindi, or is mixed script acceptable?

Mixed script is normal and nobody reads it as an error. Section headings, row labels and the prose paragraphs go in Hindi; personal names, degree abbreviations such as B.Tech or MBA, employer names, blood group and the income figure are routinely left in Latin because that is how they appear on the documents they came from. What does look wrong is mixing the two inside a single label, mixing Devanagari and Latin digits, or leaving one English section heading standing on an otherwise Hindi page.

Why does my Hindi biodata show boxes instead of letters?

Because the font used to lay it out has no Devanagari glyphs. On screen a browser quietly substitutes a font from your own computer, so the document looks fine to you; when the same file is rendered to PDF on a server, or opened on a device without a Hindi font, the glyphs are missing and you get empty rectangles. The fix is a tool that embeds a Devanagari font in the PDF itself. Test it by selecting a line of Hindi in the finished PDF and copying it out — if it pastes as Devanagari, the font is embedded and the file is safe to send.

Do I need to write the kundali on a Hindi biodata?

You need the rows a kundali is derived from — जन्म तिथि, जन्म समय and जन्म स्थान — and it is usual to also give राशि, नक्षत्र, मांगलिक and गण / नाड़ी, because that lets the other family's pandit begin the गुण मिलान without ringing you. The chart itself is normally a separate sheet, sent when it is asked for rather than attached to every forward. If your family does not do कुंडली मिलान, remove the whole block instead of leaving the rows empty.

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