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SOCIAL CONDITIONS 353 The kidnapping and purchasing of girls were not done for pushing
the girls into slavery or extracting any inhuman service from them.
艢r墨vardhita kidnapped the daughter of 艢rik膩nta and married her.
She became his dear wife and there was no resentment from her (77.85-
97). Kharad奴峁�a峁嘺 kidnapped Candranakh膩 and married her. He gave
her the due respect a wife should expect (9.12: 44.9-11). The position
of girls is undermined when they are enjoyed and left in lurch. But
when they are married and given the rights of legally married wives,
they are not the losers. It becomes disparaging when the married girls
are intentionally put to sufferings by the behaviour of their husbands
or the society. Here it will be interesting to note that in some cases the
boys of K峁�atriya landlords鹿 are still kidnapped and married to the
Ksatriya girls to escape the burden of dowry and get good bridegrooms.
In that case the marriage is regarded as binding by custom and it is
given legality. This is just the opposite of kidnapping a girl and then
marrying her. The dowry system of today is just like the purchasing
of a bridegroom. Now a days that type of marriage is not regarded as
illegal. So to say the importance is of particular custom and not the
way in which the marriage is performed.
Generally marriages of girls were happy. There is no case on
record in the PCV to note that any girl was forcibly married by her
parents or that the marriage of a daughter performed by her parents
proved unhappy afterwards on account of dissension, quarrel or disu-
nion between the husband and the wife or culminated into the complete
ruining of the life of a girl.
Thus the PCV reveals that a girl enjoyed equal status with a boy
in the matters of nourishment, education and marriage. Along with
the boys the girls also enjoyed the special privilege of immunity from
murder even if they committed some offence虏.
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Wife The wife was the mistress of the house (ghari峁嚹� 48.64,
gehin墨 8.61 grhin墨). It indicates her highest authority in managing the
the domestic affairs. Patt墨 Patni (14.14) denotes her capacity of
partnership with the lord husband and Bh膩ry膩=Bhajj膩 (103. 7)
signifies the right of being maintained by her husband, Pai=Pati
(46. 18) means the guardian of the wife and Bhattara-Bhartr
(8. 33) denotes the maintainer. These terms indicate that the wife and
husband were complementary to each other. The responsibilities of
1. This custom is prevalent in some parts of the Jodhpur Division of R膩jasth膩n.
2. Sama峁嚹� ya Bambha峁嚹� vi ya, go pasu itthi ya b膩lay膩 vu岣嶀笉h膩 /
Jai vi hu kunanti dosa峁� taha vi ya ee na hantavv膩 //鈥� 35.15.
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