History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c26.299

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There are certain other prohibitions about marriage. The Smṛtimuktāphala¹¹⁶⁸ quotes a verse of Hārīta that one should not give one’s daughter in exchange to another’s son and receive that other’s daughter in marriage for one’s son, one should not give two daughters to the same man (at the same time), nor should one give one’s two daughters to two persons who are brothers. But these dicta will now certainly be held as merely recommendatory. Besides there is no objection in India in modern times to marrying the deceased wife’s sister, though even in England the deceased wife’s sister could not be married until 1907 (when the Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act, 1907, Edw. 7 chap. 47 legalised such marriages).