VYAVASTHA-DARPANA F(){} 300 There are eight forms of marriage –1. The Bráhma, 2. Doira, 3. . ‘rshu, t. Prájápatya, 5. A'sura, 6. (#āndharta, 7. Rölshasha, nnd 8, Poish(icluí”. These are described by Manu and Jágnyaraliya as follows:-- I. Munu:–“The ceremony of Brahmá, of the Deras, of the Rishis, of the Prajúpatis, of the Asuras, of the Gandharaw, and of the Rikshawłas--The gift of a daughter, clothed only with a single robe, to a man learned in the seda, whom her father voluntarily invites and respectfully receives, is the nuptial rite called Bráhma. The rite, which sages call Doira, is the gift of a daughter, whom her father has decked in gay attire, when the sacrifice is already begun, to the officiating priest who performs that act of religion. When the father gives his daughter away, after having received from the bridegroom one pair of kine, or two pairs, for uses prescribed by law, that marriage is termed Arsha. The nuptial rite called Préjápasya is, when the father gives away his daughter with due honor, saying distinctly : * may both of you perform together your civil and religious duties.’ When the bridegroom, having given as much wealth as he can afford to the father and parental kinsmen, and to the damsel herself, takes her voluntarily as his bride, that marriage is named A sura. The reciprocal connection of a youth and a damsel, with mutual desire, is the marriage denominated Gándarra, contracted for the purpose of amorous embraces and proceeding from sensual inclination. The scizure of a maiden by force from her house, while she weeps and calls for assistance, after her kinsmen and friends have been slain in battle, or wounded, and their houses broken open, is the marriage styled Rákshasha, When the lover secretly embraces the damsel, either sleeping or flushed with strong liquor, or disordered in her intellect, that sinful marriage, called Paishâcha, is the eighth and the basest.” ch. III. vs. 8i. 27, 28. 29. 30, 31, 32, 33, 34. II. Jágnyanakya –“In the Brähnu nuptials the damsel is given (by her father) when he has decked her as elegantly as he can, to the bridegroom, whom he has invited; in the Doira, to the priest employed in performing the sacrifice; in the Arsha, to the bridegroom, from whom he receives, (for religious purposes,) a bull and a cow. When the father gives her to a suitor, saying, ‘perform all duties together,’ the marriage is named Kāya (or Prájápasya, ) and a son produced by it confers purity on himself and on six descendants in a male line: an A'aura marriage is contracted by receiving property from the bridegroom; a Gándharra, by reciprocal amorous agreement; a Rákshasha, by seizure in war; a Poiskácha,by deceiving the damsel.” Coleb. Dig. vol, III. p. 604.
- Coleb. Dá bhas. p. 89. Coleb. Dig. vol. III. р, 604
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