The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day c7.s5.13

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A. D.), had both a Brahmana and a Kshatriya wife. The father of poet Bāṇa had a Śūdra wife as well, and her children were living in the same household. Rājaśekhara, a poet laureate at the Gurjara Pratīhāra court, had married a cultured Kshatriya lady in *c.* 860 A. D. In the *Kathāsaritsāgara* we often find the daughter being asked by her father as to which of the suitors belonging to the four castes met their approval¹. When Brahmana Aśokadatta was married to a princess, the author of the above book records his hearty approval of the union; 'the marriage between the princess and the Brahmana youth appeared to mutual advantage like the union of learning with modesty².