Buying a wife is reprehended by the early law-givers (therefore, customary).
The rite of marriage presupposes a grown girl, but child-marriages also were known to the early law.] [Footnote 33: The groom 'releases her from Varuna's fetter,' by symbolically loosening the hair.

They step northeast, and he says: 'One step for sap; two for strength; three for riches; four for luck; five for children; six for the seasons; seven for friendship.

Be true to me--may we have many long-lived sons.'] [Footnote 34: There is another funeral hymn, X.16, in which the Fire is invoked to burn the dead, and bear him to the fathers; his corporeal parts being distributed 'eye to the sun, breath to the wind,' etc.] [Footnote 35: See below.] [Footnote 36: Compare Weber, _Streifen_, I.66; The king's first wife lies with a dead victim, and is bid to come back again to life.

Levirate marriage is known to all the codes, but it is reprehended by the same code that enjoins it.

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