vYawAsTHA-DARPANA. 732 in kine, goats, sheep, gold, and grain (6):-The family, which has omitted prescribed acts of religion; that, which has produced no male children; that, in which the veda has not been read; that, which has thick hair on the body; and those, which have been subject to hemorrhoids, to phthilis, to dyspepsis, to epilepsy, to leprosy and to elephantiasis (,)—Let him not marry a girl with reddish hair, nor with any deformed limb; nor one troubled with habitual sickness; nor one either with no hair or with too much; nor one immoderately talkativo nor one with inflamed eyes (8); *—Her, who has no brother, or whose not well known, Jet no sensible man espouse, through seat lest (in the former case) her father should take her first son as his own (to perform his obsequies;) or (in the second case) lest an illicit marriage should be contracted (11).'-ch. III. 418. A girl with the name of a constellation, of a tree, or of a river, and so forth y though with defects invisible, being included amongt the texts descriptive of visible defects, is reckoned as being with visible defects; consequently, there is no apprehension of their not becoming wives (when married). A girl with the name of a constellation, of a tree, or of a river, and so forth, is described by Mans:-" Nor one with the name of a constellation, of a tree, or of a river, of a barbarous nation, or of a mountain, of a winged creature, a snake, or a slave; nor with any name raising an image of terror.—ch. III, v. 9, In those girls whom it is allowed or prohibited to marry on account of good or bad qualities as of ‘the family which omitted prescribed acts of religion,' there is however no want of wifeship, (inasmuch as such girls become wives) though married in violation of the above rule. Consequently Minu has separated the texts, “be they ever so great or ever 80 rich,” &c. The prohibitory text, “nor one with the name of a constellation, of a tree, or of a river,” and so forth z though included amohgst the above texts, does not deprive a girl (falling within the descrip tion hereof) of her being the wife of the man to whom she is married.—Kulliss Bhatta's commentary on Manu. 4. Such also is the opinion of Raghunandana –See the Udráha-tattva. In certain families in Bengal marriages are seen to take place in violation of the above Vyadaitkás ! such marriages கி. only be said to be in use according to the doctrine of the Chaturwingnati sages already citad,
- Bat—"Let him choose for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect; who has An agreeable name; "ho walks (gracefully) like a phoenicopteros or like a young elephant; whose hair and teeth are moderate *Pectively in quantity and size, whose body has exquisite softness. Ibid. v. 10 &
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