Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.923

v1.c3.s21.923

¹⁴ Cf. Delbrück, Die indogermanischen Verwandtschaftsnamen, 576. Ibid., 582, he quotes Mahābhārata, xii, 6108 et seq., which refers in one line to the control of the marriage of the son by the father, and in the next to a case of free marriage. The fact is, no doubt, that the son could marry freely, unless his father had arranged matters for him when he was too young to object. (Journal of the American Oriental Society, 26, 61, 62).