WYAVASTHA-DARPANA 698 388 But should a bridegroom or husband die after the ceremony of gift, a second marriage of such a damselis scarcely in practice amongst the ( IIindu ) gentry, though it is not uncommon amongst the common people”. Although the marriage of a widow was directed by Parávara, yet the other sages having considered it a censurable act, as being one by wich the observance of the duty of continence and auster. ities is obstructed, and it being stil in thล ...toditya-purána that these (parts of ancient law) have been abrogated by wis' legislators, as the cases arose at the begining of the Kali age, and syásu, the son of Paríaura, having declared the injunctions of infalliable legislators to be of equal authority with the holy writ (the tella,)f the (Ilindu) gentry of this age still act in obidience to that prohibition. - 389 It is the performance of the ceremony of gift that renders a marriage irrevoc. ablet, and the kushandikó completes it (even without consummation.)" 1 Once is the partition of an inheritance made; onee is a damsel given in marriage; and J.ce does a man say ‘ I give ' these three are, by good men, done once for all and irrevocalle. Manu, ch. 9, v. 47. II Let no man of sense, who has once given his daughter to a suitor, give her again to another; for he, who gives away his daughter, whom he had before given, incurs the guilt und fine of speaking falsely in a cause concerning mankind. Ihid, ch. 9. v. 71. III The nuptial texts sre a certain rulo in regard to wedlock; and the bridal contract is kown by the learned to be complete (and irrevocable) on the seventh step (of the married pair hand in hand,aster those texts have been pronounced.) Munu, ch, 3, v. 16, IV. Therefore marriage is not valid without all the ceremonies, from the junction of hands to the seventh step of the married pair. The titledhatatwa of Raghunandana. t $oc I'dráhatatwa. and Coleb. I)i;r. vol. III. pp. 141, 142. t ‘Marriage’ is a rite to bo performed by the brilegroom, and which completes the regenerating ceremonies; since the art of receiving (the brille) effects it, the term has been also used (in this gloss) as signifying the gist (of a maiden, ) Coleb. Dig. vol. III. р. 600.
- Vide Maen. H. L. vol. p. 58, and Str. H. I. vol. I, p. 36.
§ Kushandiki is the last of the rites performed in a marriage : it is enjoined to be performed within four days the date of the gift. In this, the bridegroom makes homa or oblation to fire, and, standing behind the bride, holds the palms of both hands open below those of the bride, who, in her palms joined and open holds some lá'ís or parched paddy, and jointly with the bridegroom drops the same on the fire as an oblation; and during the recital of certain prayers the married pair walk hand in hand seven steps on seven circles made on the ground with white paint. - vywwwaa” Reason Vyawastha” Authority
