The Journal of the Ganganatha Jha Research Institute November 1948

He argues that the ceremony of marriage being the primary thing can never be annulled when once performed due simply to such secondary things as the defects of the giver.54 He is however not clear as to the results of a marriage where the person offering the girl is not included in the list of legal guardians. [...] The Bengal school had always a strong disfavour for the idea of giving any share of paternal property to girls and in this case also perhaps the psychology working bhind the distorted meaning of the word Turiyaka which can mean nothing but a fourth part was that by accepting the real meaning the Bengal jurists might expose themseves to the risk of allotting a definite share of the 'propert [...] This interpretation of Nilkanth* seems to imply that the practice of the female relatives of the bridegroom accompanying him to the bride's house prevailed in those times otherwise the presence of the former at the mariage ceremony which as. [...] The Daiva is that form in which the girl is given away to a R.tvik engaged in sacrifices and in the Arsa form the giver of the girl presents a couple of cows received from the bridegroom. [...] In an Asura marriage the giver of the girl accepts from the bridegroom money exceeding the amount precribed by Sastras and a Gändharva marriage takes place at the mutual agreement of the bridegroom and the bride independently of their respective guardians.