Note 166 — LECTURE XIII. Festivals, Domestic Rites, and Formularies of Prayer.
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In this it did good service, at least for a time; for the cost of marriage-ceremonies among the Hindūs often cripples the resources of a family for years. The marriage of the poorest persons sometimes entails expenses in gifts to the Brāhmans, etc., to the amount of 300 rupees.