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" To an excellent and handsome youth of the same class let every man give his daughter in marriage, according to law, even though she have not attained her age of eight years. "
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland - Page 407
by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1841
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Institutes of Hindu Law: Or, The Ordinances of Menu, According to the Gloss ...

Manu (Lawgiver) - Hindu law - 1796 - 442 pages
...mere Chan' dala begotten on a Bralunent. 88. ' To an excellent and handfome youth of * the fame clafs, let every man give his daughter" ' in marriage, according to law ; even though * fhe have not attained her age of eight years : 89. * But it is better that the damfel, though ' marriageable,...
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Manu (Lawgiver) - Hindu law - 1825 - 490 pages
...near at hand, has been im'* memorially considered as a mere Chanddla begotten ' on a Brdhmeril. 88. ' To an excellent and handsome youth of the ' same class, let every man give his daughter in mar' riage, according to law; even though she have not ' attained her age of eight years : 89. ' But...
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Institutes of Hindu Law: Or, The Ordinances of Menu, According to the Gloss ...

Manu (Lawgiver) - Brahmans - 1825 - 488 pages
...near at hand, has been im' memorially considered as a mere Chanddla begotten ' on a Brdhmeni. 88. ' To an excellent and handsome youth of the ' same class, let every man give his daughter in mar' riage, according to law; even though she have not ' attained her age of eight years : 89. ' But...
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Notes on the Religious, Moral, and Political State of India Before the ...

Sykes (Colonel, William Henry) - India - 1841 - 256 pages
...by touching a sacred image and the like." Chap. 7, v. S4, and chap. 2, v. 17'', chap. 3, y. 152 and 180. The mention of sacred images thus gives a modern character to Menu as opposed to the Vedas. 4 This is not the case in Menu, for the text says, " To an excellent and handsome youth of the same...
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume 6

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1841 - 694 pages
...by touching a sacred image and the like." Chap. 7, v. f>4, and chap. 2, T. 176, chap. 3, v. 152 and 180. The mention of sacred images thus gives a modern character to Menu as opposed to the Vedas. 4 This is not the case in Menu, for the text says, " To an excellent and handsome youth of the same...
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Calcutta Review, Volume 36

India - 1861 - 448 pages
...before the ' close of her tenth year, even if the time were otherwise inaus' picious or improper.'f Menu says. — ' To an excellent and ' handsome youth of...even though she have ' not attained her age of eight years.'J So important does the old lawgiver consider this matter, that he counsels nothing short of...
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Institutes of Hindu Law, Or, The Ordinances of Menu [i.e., Manu]: According ...

Manu, Graves Champney Haughton - Hindu law - 1869 - 366 pages
...faulty damsel in marriage, without disclosing her blemish, the husband may annul the act, p. 201, s. 73 To an excellent and handsome youth of the same class, let every man give his daughter in, though ohe has not attained the age of eight years, p. 202, ss. 88, 89 Three years let a damsel wait,...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 5; Volume 30

1870 - 1172 pages
...Reprehensible is the father who gives not his daughter in marriage at the proper time;" and again, "To an excellent and handsome youth of the same class,...even though she have not attained her age of eight years." He carries up the responsibility to an awful height by declaring the neglectful father, whose...
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The Land of the Veda: Being Personal Reminiscences of India : Its People ...

William Butler - India - 1872 - 568 pages
...Reprehensible is the father who gives not his daughter in marriage at the proper time ;" and again, " To an excellent and handsome youth of the same class...even though she have not attained her age of eight years." He carries up the responsibility to an awful height by declaring the neglectful father, whose...
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The Land of the Veda: Being Personal Reminiscences of India; Its People ...

William Butler - India - 1873 - 590 pages
...Reprehensible is the father who gives not his daughter in marriage at the proper time ;" and again, " To an excellent and handsome youth of the same class...even though she have not attained her age of eight years." He carries up the responsibility to an awful height by declaring the neglectful father, whose...
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