[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912) › v1.c3.s12.366 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s12.366 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s12.366 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s12.366](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s12.366) In the Gṛhya Sūtras⁵ stress is laid on the prohibition of marriage within a Gotra, or with a Sapiṇḍa of the mother of the bridegroom—that is to say, roughly, with agnates and cognates. Senart⁶ has emphasized this fact as a basis of caste, on the ground that marriage within a curia, phratria, or caste (Varṇa) was Indo-European, as was marriage outside the circle of agnates and cognates. But there is no evidence at all⁷ to prove that this practice was Indo-European, while in India the Śatapatha⁸ expressly recognizes marriage within the third or fourth degree on either side. According to Sāyaṇa, the Kāṇvas accepted marriage in the third degree, the Saurāṣṭras only in the fourth, while the scholiast on the Vajrasūcī⁹ adds to the Kāṇvas the Andhras and the Dākṣiṇātyas, and remarks that the Vājasaneyins forbade marriage with the daughter of the mother's brother. All apparently allowed marriage with the daughter of a paternal uncle, which later was quite excluded. Change of Gotra was quite possible, as in the case of Śunaḥśepa and Gṛtsamada, who, once an Aṅgirasa, became a Bhārgava.¹⁰ - [Previous: v1.c3.s12.365](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s12.365) - [Next: v1.c3.s12.367](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s12.367) - [Up: v1.c3.s12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s12) ## Linked texts (1) - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha) — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s12.366](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s12.366) · Pramāṇa