Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.578

c7.578

¹ The custom of child-marriage may on the whole be regarded as a later development for no trace of it may be found in the Vedic age. Ghoṣā for instance was married at the age of sixty (Bṛhaddevatā, VII, 41-47)! Old maids too were not unknown (Zimmer, Altind. Leben pp. 305-6). *Tr.*