Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c12.292
Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c12.292
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As regards the inter-varṇa marriage, Manu quotes the old dictum, which permits the members of a higher varṇa to marry the woman of a lower varṇa.⁴ But he adds that, if twice-born men wed women of their own and of the other lower varṇas, the seniority, status and habitation of these wives must be settled according to the order of the varṇas.⁵