The institutes of Vishnu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880)

108 VISHWU. XXIV, 23.
23. A union between two lovers, without the
consent of mother and father, is called a Gandharva
marriage.
24. If the damsel is sold (to the bridegroom), it
is called an Asura marriage.
25. If he seizes her forcibly, it is called a Rak-
shasa marriage.
26. If he embraces her in her sleep, or while she
is unconscious, it is called a Paba/fa marriage.
27. Among those (eight forms of marriage), the
four first forms are legitimate (for a Brahma;za);
28. And so is the Gandharva form for a Ksha-
triya.
29. A son procreated in a Brahma marriage re-
deems (or sends into the heavenly abodes hereafter
mentioned) twenty-one men (viz. ten ancestors, ten
descendants, and him who gave the damsel in
marriage).
30. A son procreated in a Daiva marriage, four-
teen ;
31. A son procreated in an Arsha marriage,
seven;
32. A son procreated in a Prag'apatya marriage,
four.
33. He who gives a damsel in marriage according
to the Brahma rite, brings her into the world of
Brahman (after her death, and enters that world
himself).
34. (He who gives her in marriage) according to
the Daiva rite, (brings her) into Svarga (or heaven,
and enters Svarga himself).
35. (He who gives her in marriage) according to
the Arsha rite, (brings her) into the world of Vishzzu
(and enters that world himself).