History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.335

v4.c63.t2.335

"That is known as *saudāyika* which is obtained by a married woman or by a maiden in her husband's or father's house from her brother or from her parents" (Kāt.). Some of the divergences in readings and in interpretation deserve to be noted. Acc. to the reading adopted by the Mit. *adhyāvāhanika* includes all gifts made *by any one* when the newly married girl is taken from her father's house in a procession, while the reading adopted by the Dāyabhāga¹⁴⁹⁶ and some others (*paitṛkāt*) restricts the adhyāvāhanika to gifts made by the father's or mother's family only. The V. R. (p. 523) includes under adhyāvāhanika also the gifts made by the father-in-law and others when the girl is taken back to her father's house and the V. C. (p. 138) says that it is what is obtained at the time of '*dvirāgamana*'. The Dāyabhāga¹⁴⁹⁷ (IV. 3. 19-20 p. 93) explains '*dohyābharaṇa-karmiṇām*' differently as 'the gratification paid by house-builders or goldsmiths to induce her to press her husband to engage them' or as Vyāsa says 'what is given to a woman to induce her (cheerfully) to go to her husband's house'. The Sm. C. and V. P. explain *śulka* as the price of the articles which the bridegroom was in the habit of presenting to the bride at the time of marriage or when he started a house.¹⁴⁹⁸ The V.