Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s7.374

v2.c4.s7.374

The chief rival theory is undoubtedly that of Senart,¹⁵⁹ which places the greatest stress on the Āryan constitution of the family. According to Senart the Āryan people practised in affairs of marriage both a rule of exogamy, and one of endogamy. A man must marry a woman of equal birth, but not one of the same gens, according to Roman law as interpreted by Senart and Kovalevsky;¹⁶⁰ and an Athenian must marry an Athenian woman, but not one of the same γένος. In India these rules are reproduced in the form that one must not marry within the Gotra, but not without the caste. The theory, though attractively developed, is not convincing; the Latin and Greek parallels are not even probably accurate;¹⁶¹ and in India the rule forbidding marriage within the Gotra is one which grows in strictness as the evidence grows later in date.¹⁶²