If there were increasing signs that Ash and Abhishek were an item, it did not in itself signify marriage -- after all, Abhishek had once been engaged to Karisma, and Ash had been seeing first Salman Khan, then Vivek Oberoi.
'Wedding' entered the media vocabulary November 28, when Aishwarya joined Abhishek and his parents on a visit to Varanasi's famous Kashi Vishwanath and Sankat Mochan temples.
Eyewitnesses suggested that Aishwarya sat on the left side of Abhishek, as a wife would under Hindu rituals, and took part in the mangala aarti followed by the rudrabhishek puja, which is usually performed by married couples.
Aishwarya, traditionaly clad in a white salwar-kameez with printed dupatta and a pashmina shawl, looked very much a part of the Bachchan family.
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