| Nand Lal Ghose - India - 1896 - 368 pages
...celebrate it. 7. "The seizure of a maiden by force from her house, whihe she weeps and calls for help, after her kinsmen and friends have been slain in battle,...wounded and their houses broken open, is the marriage styled RakshasiS." (111-33). Happily no such thing happens now; and the credit for its supression belongs... | |
| William Crooke - Caste - 1896 - 546 pages
...Manu speaks of that known as Rakshasa.: — " 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 the battle, or wounded, and their houses broken open, is tho marriage called Rakshasa ".* 18. The difficulty... | |
| Gusztáv Schwarz - Human rights - 1901 - 362 pages
...nOTablás alakjában megy végbe : «The seisure of a maiden by force from her house, while she weepes and calls for assistance, after her kinsmen and friends...wounded, and their houses broken open, is the marriage styled Rakshasa». A nőrablási ceremonia elterjedéséről 1. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation, pass.... | |
| Jane Johnstone Christie - Women - 1912 - 348 pages
...eight legal forms, and is called Rachasa. " The seizure of a maiden by force from her house, while she weeps and calls for assistance, after her kinsmen...in battle or wounded and their houses broken open," so reads the law. In the biblical Hebrew scriptures we read, that if the foreign cities which the Israelitish... | |
| Sir Gooroodass Banerjee - Hindu law - 1913 - 528 pages
...ceremonies are necessary in Gandharba marriage. " 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 Raskhasa." 1 This is no doubt an extremely reprehensible form of marriage, and the very description... | |
| Stephen Haley Allen - Constitutional history - 1916 - 1264 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 Racshasa. 34. "When the lover secretly embraces the damsel, either sleeping or flushed with... | |
| Stephen Haley Allen - Constitutional history - 1916 - 1238 pages
...force from her house, while she weeps and calls for assistance, after her kinsmen and friends hav« been slain in battle, or wounded and their houses broken open, is the marriage styled Racshasa. 34. "When the lover secretly embraces the damsel, either sleeping or flushed with... | |
| Sir Ernest John Trevelyan - Domestic relations - 1917 - 778 pages
...marriage. Seo Wilson's " Glossary," p. 436. 8 " 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 Rakshasa." " Manu," chap. iii. para. 33. » Indian Penal Code (Act XLV. of 1860), 8. 366. 10... | |
| John Dawson Mayne - Customary law - 1922 - 1132 pages
...embraces, and proceeding from sensual inclination. 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 Rakshasa. When the lover secretly embraces the damsel, either sleeping or flushed with strong... | |
| L. Krishna Anantha Krishna Iyer (Diwan Bahadur) - Ethnology - 1925 - 376 pages
...depart on receipt of two fanoms or nine Annas. " 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 her house has been broken open, is the marriage styled Rdkshasa." This form is simply the marriage... | |
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