Note 627 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT

Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 309-11, 314. Leist, Alt-arisches Jus Gentium, 125-75, gives a masterly discussion of marriage among the early Aryans, with particular reference to the Hindus. With this should be compared the able paper of Kohler, "Indisches Ehe- und Familienrecht," ZVR., III, 342-442, who differs on some important points; and Schrader, Sprachvergleichung und Urgeschichte, 381 ff. The "rich presents" referred to consisted, in case of actual purchase, of one hundred cows; and Leist, op. cit., 128, notes the coincidence of this number with one hundred beeves mentioned by Homer, Iliad, xi, l. 244.