Note 630 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
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Burnell and Hopkins, Ordinances of Manu, Lect. III, 20, 21, 24, 31, 41 ff., 47-50. "This form is also practiced at the present day by people claiming to be Brahmans, e. g., the Caiva Brahmans, called 'Gurukkal,' in southern India, who seldom can get wives for less than a thousand rupees. It often happens that low-caste girls are palmed off on them."—Ibid., 49 n. 2. Cf. Jolly, Hindu Law of Partition, 73-76, for a discussion of the marriage forms; idem, Ueber die rechtliche Stellung der Frauen, 15-18.