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The ‘Orthodoxisation’ of the Ancient Indian Marriage by Bride Price (śulka). Insights into the Ārṣa and Āsura Forms of Marriage in and out of the Dharmaśāstric Tradition

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Abstract

Among the eight forms of marriage described by the Dharmaśāstric texts, two are strictly interrelated with each other, i.e., Ārṣa and Āsura, both linked to a metaphorical (by giving one or two pairs of oxen to the maiden’s father) or actual purchase of the bride (by exchanging wealth) and respectively considered legitimate (Ārṣa) and illegitimate (Āsura). This paper analyses the formation process of these two marriage forms, which derive from a previous – single and legitimate – marriage by bride price (śulka). The Dharmaśāstric theorisation of marriage rites represents a frame that does not correspond to what can be reconstructed of marriage from earlier Vedic texts, where marriage by purchase is described in positive terms. The split into Ārṣa and Āsura marriages, which took place in the Late Vedic period, can be interpreted as a Brahmanical attempt to orthodoxise marriage by purchase by substituting the bride price with a ritual gift (Ārṣa) and, at the same time, to condemn its oldest form by declaring it as illegitimate (Āsura). However, there is evidence from Dharmaśāstric and non-Dharmaśāstric (i.e., epic and Purāṇic) texts as well as – even though with minor relevance – from Megasthenes’ account of Ancient Indian marriage that the sale of daughters continued to be a practised custom and, despite the hermeneutical efforts of some passages (e.g., ĀpDh II, 13, 11), the Ārṣa marriage was actually felt as a purchase.


Corresponding author: Alessandro Giudice, Department of Literature, Languages, and Cultural Heritage, University of Cagliari, Via Is Mirrionis 1, 09123 Cagliari, CA, Italy, E-mail:

Acknowledgements

All the translations from Sanskrit and Greek are by the author unless explicitly declared. I am sincerely grateful to David Brick, Maria Piera Candotti and Tiziana Pontillo for their suggestions and corrections regarding this research and for reading a provisional draft of the present paper. Furthermore, I would like to express my clear recognition for the anonymous reviewer whose scrupulous feedback improved the argument. In the end, I remark that any error is obviously my responsibility.

Abbreviations

AB

Aitareyabrāhmaṇa, ed. Aufrecht 1879.

Arr. Ind.

Arrian’s Indica, ed. Chantraine 1927.

Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra, ed. Kangle 1969.

AVP

Atharvaveda, Paippalada recension, ed. Bhattacharya 1997-2016.

AVŚ

Atharvaveda, Śaunakīya recension, ed. Roth/Whitney 1856.

ĀpDh

Āpastambadharmasūtra, ed. Olivelle 2000.

ĀśGS

Āśvalāyanagṛhyasūtra, ed. Stenzler 1864.

BDh

Baudhāyanadharmasūtra, ed. Olivelle 2000.

BSm

Bṛhaspatismṛti (reconstructed), ed. Aiyangar 1941.

F

Megasthenes’ fragments J = FrGrHist 715; Sc = ed. Schwanbeck 1966; St = ed. Stoneman 2022.

FGrHist

Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, ed. Jacoby 1923-1958.

GDh

Gautamadharmasūtra, ed. Olivelle 2000.

Har

Haradatta’s Ujjvalā, commentary on the Āpastambadharmasūtra, ed. Śāstri / Rangācārya 1898.

JB

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa, ed. Ranade 2019.

KāṭhGS

Kāṭhakagṛhyasūtra, ed. Caland 1925.

KauṣGS

Kauṣītakigṛhyasūtra, ed. Chintamani 1944.

KauśS

Kauśikasūtra, ed. Bloomfield 1889.

Keś

Keśava’s Kauśikapaddhati, ed. Limaye et. al. 1982.

KāSū

Kāmasūtra, ed. Śāstri 1964.

KS

Kāṭhakasaṃhitā, ed. Schroeder 1900–1910.

MDh

Mānavadharmaśāstra, ed. Olivelle 2005.

MGS

Mānavagṛhyasūtra, ed. Śāstri 1982.

MS

Maitrāyaṇīsaṃhitā, ed. Schroeder 1881-1886.

MŚS

Mānavaśrautasūtra, ed. Gelder 1961.

Nir

Nirukta, ed. Sarup 1967.

NSm

Nāradasmṛti, ed. Lariviere 2003.

PB

Pañcaviṃśabrāhmaṇa, ed. Śāstrī/Śāstrī 1935-1936.

PGS

Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra, ed. Bākre 1917.

PMS

Pūrvamīmāṃsāsūtra, ed. Abhyankar / Jośī 1971–1980.

Rām

Rāmāyaṇa, ed. Bhatt et. al. 1970-1985.

ṚV

Ṛgveda, ed. Aufrecht 1877.

ŚB

Śatapathabrāhmaṇa, Mādhyandina Recension, ed. Weber 1849.

ŚGS

Śāṅkhāyanagṛhyasūtra, ed. Oldenberg 1878.

Strabo

Strabo’s Geography, ed. Radt 2002-2011.

TS

Taittiriyasaṃhitā, ed. Weber 1871-1872.

VDh

Vasiṣṭhādharmasūtra, ed. Olivelle 2000.

VDhP

Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa, ed. Kṣemarāja Śrīkṛṣṇadāsa 1912.

VGS

Vārāhagṛhyasūtra, ed. Vira 1982.

VSm

Viṣṇusmṛti, ed. Olivelle 2009.

YSm

Yājñavalkyasmṛti, ed. Olivelle 2020.

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Received: 2023-10-28
Accepted: 2024-01-17
Published Online: 2024-11-29
Published in Print: 2024-11-26

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