History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c26.260

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When it is said that marriage with a sagotra or a sapravara girl is forbidden, each of these is separately an obstacle to marriage. Therefore, a girl, though not sapravara, may be yet sagotra and so ineligible for marriage or though not sagotra may yet be sapravara and not eligible. For example, the gotras of Yāska, Vādhūla, Mauna, Mūka are different, yet a marriage between persons belonging to these gotras is not possible, because the pravara of all these is the same, viz. ‘Bhārgava-Vaitahavya-Sāvetasa-iti’.¹¹⁴⁶ So also though the gotras Saṃkṛti, Pūtimāṣa, Taṇḍi, Śambu and Śāṃgava are different, there can be no marriage between them as the pravara is the same, viz. ‘Āṅgirasa, Gaurivīta, Sāṃkṛtya’ (acc. to Āśv. Śrauta). When it is said that samānapravaras cannot marry, sameness may be due to only one sage being the same in the pravaras of two gotras or there may be two or three or more sages that are common. The general rule is that if even one sage is the same¹¹⁴⁷ in the pravaras of two different gotras, then they are sapravara, except in the case of the Bhṛgu group and the group of Aṅgirases. In these two latter unless there are at least three sages common (when the pravara is constituted by five sages) or at least two sages are common (when pravara consists of only three sages), there is no sapravaratva and no bar to marriage. It will be noticed that among the five pravara sages of the Vatsas, Bidas and Ārṣṭiṣeṇas quoted above there are three sages that are common and so they cannot inter-marry.