History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c26.352

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The anxieties of the girls' father did not end here. If after the marriage was settled but before it actually took place any relative in any of the two families died, then the marriage agreement was to be broken off according to some writers, but Śaunaka¹²⁰⁴ mercifully states a more sensible and reasonable rule viz. if the father or mother or paternal grand-father or paternal grand-mother or paternal uncle, brother or unmarried sister of the intended bride or bridegroom dies, or the bridegroom's first wife or his son from another wife dies, then only it is *pratikūla* and the marriage should not be performed but the death of any one else presents no obstacle.