The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day c7.s2.37

c7.s2.37

Brāhma and Prājāpatya are the only two forms of marriage that now remain to be considered. The distinction between the two is not very clearly explained by Smṛitis. We are told that in the Brāhma marriage, the bride, properly bedecked and ornamented, is offered to a bridegroom who is specially invited for the purpose, while in Prājāpatya, the bride is offered according to due rites, but with an injunction to the couple that they should be always inseparable companions in the discharge of their religious duties¹. These definitions do not really state the difference between the two forms. It is sometimes argued that the injunction to the couple in the Prājāpatya marriage to remain inseparable companions in the performance