On the other hand, a son might take a wife from a lower group without loss of status, though his children would be the future representatives of the family.

Another point, possibly connected with hypergamy, is that a peculiar relation exists between a man and the family into which his daughter has married.

Sometimes he will accept no food or even water in his son-in-law's village.

The word _sala_, signifying wife's brother, when addressed to a man, is also a common and extremely offensive term of abuse.

The meaning is now perhaps supposed to be that one has violated the sister of the person spoken to, but this can hardly have been the original significance as _sasur_ or father-in-law is also considered in a minor degree an opprobrious term of address.
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