Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c12.s10.t4.1
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c12.s10.t4.1
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c12.s10.t4.1
We have instances which show the existence of the dowry system in the form of money, goods or estate which a woman brought to her husband in marriage. We are told of the wives of Mahāsayaga of Rāyagiha, who possessed ancestral property³³ Then we hear of a king of Vāṇārasī who gave away one thousand villages, one hundred elephants, plenty of treasure (bhaṇḍāra), one lac of foot-soldiers and ten thousand horses to his son-in-law in marriage.³⁴