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" The seizure of a maiden by force from her house, while she weeps and calls for assistance, after her kinsmen and friends have been ,slain in battle or wounded, and their houses broken open, is the marriage styled Rakshasa. "
A Classical Dictionary of India: Illustrative of the Mythology, Philosophy ... - Page 499
by John Garrett - 1871 - 793 pages
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The History of British India, Volume 1

James Mill - Hindus - 1817 - 700 pages
...contract ; one being voluntary and by mutual consent ; the other forcible, when a woman is seized, " while she weeps, and calls for assistance, after her kinsmen and friends have been slain in battle ; " the last, the fruit of brutal artifice, " when the damsel is sleeping, or flushed with strong liquor,...
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Manu (Lawgiver) - Hindu law - 1825 - 490 pages
...proceeding from sensual in' clination. 33. The seizure of a maiden by force from her house, 1 while she weeps and calls for assistance, after her ' kinsmen...or ' wounded, and their houses broken open, is the mar' riage styled RAcsham. 34. ' When the lover secretly embraces the damsel, ' either sleeping or...
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Institutes of Hindu Law: Or, The Ordinances of Menu, According to the Gloss ...

Manu (Lawgiver) - Brahmans - 1825 - 488 pages
...proceeding from sensual in* clination. 33. The seizure of a moiden by force from her house, ' while she weeps and calls for assistance, after her ' kinsmen...or ' wounded, and their houses broken open, is the mar' riage styled Rdcskasa. 34. ' When the lover secretly embraces the damsel, ' either sleeping or...
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volume 25

Asia - 1828 - 1102 pages
...soldier) is described by the legislator as " the seizure of a maiden by force from her house, while she weeps and calls for assistance, after her kinsmen...battle or wounded, and their houses broken open." The •mixed mode of marriage referred to, partaking of the Gandharvas and of the the Racshases, is...
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and ..., Volume 25

Asia - 1828 - 878 pages
...maiden by force from her house, while she weeps and calls for assistance, after her kinsmen and friend* have been slain in battle or wounded, and their houses broken open." Th* mixed mode of marriage referred to, partaking of the Gandharvas and of the the Racshases, is where...
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 11

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1879 - 432 pages
...the marriage denominated Gdndharva." . . "33. The seizure of a maiden by force from her house, while she weeps and calls for assistance, after her kinsmen...wounded, and their houses broken open, is the marriage styled Rdkshasa." " 34. When the lover secretly embraces the damsel, either sleeping or flushed with...
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The Living Age, Volume 287

Literature - 1915 - 862 pages
...intellect," called a Plsacha marriage; and (3) "the seizure of a maiden by force from her house, while she weeps and calls for assistance, after her kinsmen...and friends have been slain in battle or wounded," styled a Rakshasa marriage." The expense of the maintenance of the offspring of these alliances was...
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The History of India from the Earliest Ages: The Vedic period and the Mahá ...

James Talboys Wheeler - India - 1867 - 682 pages
...Brahmanical law is thus stated by M mm : — " The seizure of a maiden by force from her house, while she weeps and calls for assistance, after her kinsmen...battle, or wounded, and their houses broken open, it the marriage styled Rakshasa." Manu, III. 33. The name Rakshasa was indiscriminately applied to...
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Vyavasthá-darpana: A Digest of the Hindu Law, as Current in Bengal. With ...

Shama Churun Sircar - Hindu law - 1867 - 1246 pages
...assistance, after her kinsmen and friends * Cuieb. Z>d. bkf. p. 8»j— Coleb. Dig. Vol. 111. p. 604, liavo been slain in battle, or wounded, and their houses broken open, is the marriage styled Riikshasa. When the lover secretly embraces the damsel, cither sleeping or flushed with strong...
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Institutes of Hindu Law, Or, The Ordinances of Menu [i.e., Manu]: According ...

Manu, Graves Champney Haughton - Hindu law - 1869 - 366 pages
...and proceeding from sensual inclination. 33. The seizure of a maiden by force from her house, while she weeps and calls for assistance, after her kinsmen...wounded, and their houses broken open, is the marriage styled Rdcshasa. 84. When the lover secretly embraces the damsel, either sleeping or flushed with strong...
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