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²¹ It has been seen that the Hindu marriage, being a sacrament, once performed before the nuptial fire with the sacred texts, becomes irrevocable on the completion of the ceremony of taking seven steps by the couple. There is no evidence as to the practice of divorce as such during the Vedic and post-Vedic period, . . . dissolution of marriage was not thus contemplated by the *śāstra*, for it was non-dharmic, unrighteous and sinful.” — P.K. Virdi, *The Marriage*, quoted in *Dharmashastra: An Introductory Analysis*, ed. Brijkishor Swain, p. 160