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XXIV, 41.
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36. (He who gives her in marriage) according to
the Prag'apatya rite, (brings her) into the world of the
gods (and enters that world himself).
37. (He who gives her in marriage) according to
the Gandharva rite, will go to the world of Gan-
dharvas.
38. A father, a paternal grandfather, a brother, a
kinsman, a maternal grandfather, and the mother
(are the persons) by whom a girl may be given in
marriage.
39. On failure of the preceding one (it devolves
upon) the next in order (to give her in marriage), in
case he is able.
40. When she has allowed three monthly periods
to pass (without being married), let her choose a
husband for herself; three monthly periods having
passed, she has in every case full power to dispose
of herself (as she thinks best).
41. A damsel whose menses begin to appear
(while she is living) at her father’s house, before she
has been betrothed to a man, has to be considered
as a degraded woman : by taking her (without the
consent of her kinsmen) a man commits no wrong.
39. Regarding the causes effecting legal disability, such as love,
anger, &c., see Narada 3, 43.
40. Nand., arguing from a passage of Baudhayana (see also M.
IX, 90), takes rz'tu, ‘ monthly period,’ as synonymous with varsha,
‘year.’ But rz'tu, which occurs in two other analogous passages also
(Gaut. XVIII, 20, and Narada XII, 24), never has that meaning.
41. Nand. observes, that the rules laid down in this and the
preceding Nloka refer to young women of the lower castes only.
Nowadays the custom of outcasting young women, who have not
been married in the proper time, appears to be in vogue in Brah-
manical families particularly. Smn'ti passages regarding the ille-
gality of marriages concluded with such women have been collected
by me, Uber die rechtl. Stellung der Frauen, p. 9, note 17. The
WOMEN.
109
36. (He who gives her in marriage) according to
the Prag'apatya rite, (brings her) into the world of the
gods (and enters that world himself).
37. (He who gives her in marriage) according to
the Gandharva rite, will go to the world of Gan-
dharvas.
38. A father, a paternal grandfather, a brother, a
kinsman, a maternal grandfather, and the mother
(are the persons) by whom a girl may be given in
marriage.
39. On failure of the preceding one (it devolves
upon) the next in order (to give her in marriage), in
case he is able.
40. When she has allowed three monthly periods
to pass (without being married), let her choose a
husband for herself; three monthly periods having
passed, she has in every case full power to dispose
of herself (as she thinks best).
41. A damsel whose menses begin to appear
(while she is living) at her father’s house, before she
has been betrothed to a man, has to be considered
as a degraded woman : by taking her (without the
consent of her kinsmen) a man commits no wrong.
39. Regarding the causes effecting legal disability, such as love,
anger, &c., see Narada 3, 43.
40. Nand., arguing from a passage of Baudhayana (see also M.
IX, 90), takes rz'tu, ‘ monthly period,’ as synonymous with varsha,
‘year.’ But rz'tu, which occurs in two other analogous passages also
(Gaut. XVIII, 20, and Narada XII, 24), never has that meaning.
41. Nand. observes, that the rules laid down in this and the
preceding Nloka refer to young women of the lower castes only.
Nowadays the custom of outcasting young women, who have not
been married in the proper time, appears to be in vogue in Brah-
manical families particularly. Smn'ti passages regarding the ille-
gality of marriages concluded with such women have been collected
by me, Uber die rechtl. Stellung der Frauen, p. 9, note 17. The