Note 631 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT

One of the eight marriage forms mentioned by Manu with approval: The "gift in due form of a maiden is called the Ārsha rite, when a pair or two of cattle have been legally received from the bridegroom."—Burnell and Hopkins, op. cit., III, 29, 48, 49. Cf. Jolly, op. cit., 16; Leist, Alt-arisches Jus Gentium, 130-33, for the consequences of disapproval of capture; and for the transformation of the purchase-price into the Çulka institution or dower, ibid., 501 ff.