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VISHNU.
XXIV, 23.
23. A union between two lovers, without the consent of mother and father, is called a Gândharva marriage.
24. If the damsel is sold (to the bridegroom), it is called an Asura marriage.
25. If he seizes her forcibly, it is called a Râkshasa marriage.
26. If he embraces her in her sleep, or while she is unconscious, it is called a Paisâka marriage.
27. Among those (eight forms of marriage), the four first forms are legitimate (for a Brâhmana);
28. And so is the Gândharva form for a Kshatriya.
29. A son procreated in a Brâhma marriage redeems (or sends into the heavenly abodes hereafter mentioned) twenty-one men (viz. ten ancestors, ten descendants, and him who gave the damsel in marriage).
30. A son procreated in a Daiva marriage, fourteen;
31. A son procreated in an Årsha marriage, seven;
32. A son procreated in a Prâgâpatya marriage, four.
33. He who gives a damsel in marriage according to the Brâhma rite, brings her into the world of Brahman (after her death, and enters that world himself).
34. (He who gives her in marriage) according to the Daiva rite, (brings her) into Svarga (or heaven, and enters Svarga himself).
35. (He who gives her in marriage) according to the Arsha rite, (brings her) into the world of Vishnu (and enters that world himself).
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