Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.317

v1.c5.317

In xiii, 2.18 the ideal king Duryodhana of the race of Manu and Ikshvāku bestows his daughter in marriage on Agni, and demands instead of the purchase price (çulka) the continual presence of the fire god. But it may be that rather we have here a turn of speech.³ But it does not at all fall naturally under the conception of the çulka, when the fisherman Dāça gives his adopted daughter Satyavatī as wife to the enamoured king Çantanu only under the condition that her son shall be definitely king (i, 100).