Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.308

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*of the East*, xiv, p. 7. According to Mānavagrihyas., i, 7–8, there are only two kinds of marriage : brāhma and çaulka. As a direct contrast to the Brahmanic view, which in the Mahānirvāṇatantra, xi, 84 even demands that the king shall drive out of the land, as godless and fallen, the man that gives away his daughter for money, let it be mentioned that among our old Germanic forbears the free gift of the bride was invalid, and only the purchase marriage was valid in law (Sohm, *Deutsche Rundschau*, 1878, p. 99 ; Westermarck ³, p. 429 f.).