Daiva

Created by Jijith Nadumuri at 23 Jul 2011 10:21 and updated at 23 Jul 2011 10:21

VISHNU PURANA NOUN

vp.3.10

"The forms of marriage are eight, the Brahma, Daiva, the arsha, Prajapatya, Asura, Gandharba, Rakshasa, and Paisacha; which last is the worst 10: but the caste to which either form has been enjoined as lawful by inspired sages should avoid any other mode of taking a wife. The householder who espouses a female connected with him by similarity of religious and civil obligations, and along with her discharges the duties of his condition, derives from such a wife great benefits."

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