Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c8.69
Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra c8.69
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c8.69
We may now pass on to Vātsyāyana's description of Varaṇa or choice of the bride. The selection was generally made and the marriage settled by the parents and other relatives and friends, and not by the parties to the marriage themselves, unless under exceptional circumstances. In the Vedic age too, the Vara or the wooer was often a friend