History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.508

v6.c82.508

⁹²⁶ राज्ञा ग्रस्तेऽथवा युद्धे पितॄणां प्राणसंशये । अतिप्रौढा तु या कन्या न तु कालं प्रतीक्षते । अतिप्रौढा तु या कन्या न तु धर्मविरोधिनी । अविशुद्धा तु सा देया लग्नचन्द्रबलैर्विना ॥ राजमार्तण्ड (folio 24b and verses 397-398) q by उद्वाहतत्त्व p 124 (reads नाड- कूल्यं प्रतीक्षते and चन्द्रलग्नबलेन तु), नि. सिं p 303 (reads राष्ट्रग्रस्ते) संवर्त (verse 67) laid down that a girl was to be married before she reached puberty, but the marriage of a girl when she is eight years old is to be commended. Parāśara (VII 9) says that a brāhmaṇa who marries a girl after she has reached puberty becomes unfit to sit for dinner in a row of brāhmaṇas and he becomes the husband of a vṛṣalī राजमार्तण्ड (folio 25a verse 391) is: अष्टवर्षा भवेद्गौरी दशवर्षा च कन्यका । संप्राप्ते द्वादशे वर्षे परतस्तु रजस्वला ॥. So some stigma atta- (Continued from last page) ches to the grown-up girl also. The भुजबल says 'दशवर्षव्यतिक्रान्ता कन्या शुद्विविवर्जिता। तस्मात्सारैन्दुलग्नानां शुद्धौ पाणिग्रहो मतः॥' p. 152. Therefore the राजमार्तण्ड employs the word अविशुद्धा. The उद्वाहतत्त्व softens the rule by saying that all that should be considered is the moon and the lagna at the time of the marriage of a grown-up girl