Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.644

c7.644

Of the Dharmasūtras Āp. prohibits the marriage of a daughter with a *sagotra* (of the father) and Degrees of propinquity hindering marriage. a blood-relation (*yonisaṃvandha*) of the mother; instead of or besides the *sagotra*, the expressions *samānārṣagotraja*, *samānapravara* etc. are used in other Smṛtis (cf. Mah. 13, 49, 18) and the degrees of affinity hindering matrimonial alliances are defined more accurately to this effect that they consist of relationship traced up to the fifth generation in the mother’s side and to the seventh generation in the father’s side. The *sapinḍas* are reckoned by generations beginning with the common progenitor of the clan. But people did not stick even to these extended rules about the prohibition of marriage. Thus