Theory of Government in Ancient India (Post-Vedic) c8.52

c8.52

The same spirit of minute regulation pervades the law on elopement. Every step, every possibility in the complicated transaction forms the subject of legal ordinance. But little need be said of it here. Nor is it permissible to treat of that revolting unnameable corruption which, while infinitely less extensive than in Greece or Rome, was not altogether unknown in India. It was punished with the first amorcement and, as literature amply proves, carried intense social reprobation.¹