Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.633

c7.633

They were more tolerant towards the marriage of a Kṣatriya woman and a Brahman and generally towards mixed marriages where the female is only one step lower than the male.¹ Thus according to Baudh. 1, 17, 3 ff. (similarly 1, 16, 6 and Gaut. 4, 16), sons of equal status are said to be born of such marriages, and also according to the unpublished Dharmasūtra of Uśanas (§ 4) the son of a Brahman by a Kṣatriya wife will be a Brahman, the son of a Kṣatriya by a Vaiśya wife a Kṣatriya and that of a Vaiśya by a Śudra wife a Vaiśya. The Mah.² too knows of marriages between Brahmans and daughters of Kings.³