Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.22

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² So we see, that when the girl flies out of the father's nest, then plenty of golden birds fly out at the same time from the purse (or, to speak as the Old Indians, out of the money-knot) of her father. So it is among the Turks (Osmani Bey, *Die Frauen i. d. Türkei*, Berlin, 1886, pp. 49-50, 54, 70). It is well known that to marry off daughters in India often means to ruin the family, and even down to the children and children's children.