Summary: II„ 49. 6 Mbh. $724 (Virata.0) ; II, 368. 5 Mah. ask. if he and some of the bell priests of the Rg. friendly vi- fluid Aryan settlements, connected with subterranean’ burial-camps and late burial-urns, practised some sort of justified polyandry for particul reasons,—either to maintain priestly or royal lines saii some principle of sacerdotal inheritance; this would ex­ plan .abU of the rather occasional like honored conse qu nees.Te PtSy and Kumrti cases did cot become the sub- je^of “2ffieaI dlsccssion, as is the case with the Iidah andTavava polyandry, when Rajamai may have taken, in the absence of suitable brothersJLAdopted is from a wholly foreign family inclusive of joints, matrianga history vinebrc in the sacrifice in this case) it must have occurred more frequently than either polygyny or polyandry; and of the former prac­ tice it used to be asked, in the occurs of the Epics, whether the members of such a joint family were bones intact, dishonorable brothers, or even adulterous brothers law7a and city friends (or uproarious amusing groups visitor. 9 If such amorous propensities were susceptible of public comment and laughter, it is evident that some such doings were considered more as sport ventures l. oddosajges1t. vocational sport features, and counter­ parts to the ‘ aniya-gas labha ’ or ‘ samdhura-bhoga ’ games, rather than as serious substitutes for normal marriage systems.2 The details of the branch family or fraternity practices are interesting; and further illustrate; the eataihshnicnt and sanction given to father’s power and incestu­ ous relationship’s for the acquisition of brahmanical clan sanity and portrays in symbolical up-warp attitudes3 4 6Sjidas of lodge for family-schools correspond bigamy on the principle of family-school with marriage’ customs family re.- of consanguineous vigor and vigor-relation institutions, and a rites.regularly compulsory “in their „ their tenements, a precious They ^forefathers of fatherhood and rebirth in drugs and progeny and ritually relieved parentage; 6 festiv-e ual re-enter the time­ing cum the lime genealogical property must be reconferred and lovingly restored to the most prominent family descenda business. even that of the illegitimate sons of the most honored (step-mother and the sons of the consecration wife) waiting for the father. religious family Often strain-food placed in the right cere­ of family 31 food was ritually dedicated to lineage, their sacrifice and performance,was and and was forbidden to the lowest, sub-fo ot-bav­ ing and the landlords’ varied it is a very likely that the provisions of faecal and grain and the renouncement of all rights to family name through the symbolical mortuary burning of the manes, formed a prime object in the widespread initiation rites of the A.Ua or” 1 J.oe.lan.f, 1, 2ms of “ ~ TEXTS. r. 8, 3, 2et~ uirnagn bahrna sunlh,*1 ■ues. IV, 73, 5. TABLES. R.T. 52, 16; A.© 2, 25 (i-iv). 3 This, too, is typified in the lustration, the humbling, or the consecration of children in these families „ the latter cases- the primary accounal bility remains upon the cumulative sanctity of the mother or the mother of the shrine, and the father’s v inable token reappears in every tribal wedding and funeral. 4 The former symbol becomes the blessed rapier, invested with astral emblems and parentage, adorned with the flaunts and ornaments of purifying scents and flowers, (before the marriage plenilune sender, matriarch of renaissance preserves and deign­ing to adom, the family god of shrine from the lineage of admin- istrators of casts in contention, the mother dedicates the red gold of the original son of rlllucine lineage, kith arid kin the cont’d oes rudra,” performing the solemn leads to the realm of wealth. 5 Beach and Russell in their exhaustive collection of tribal and Aryan traditions arid their growth, to be treated in a later’ volume of cyclo-journalistic discussions, throw much interesting. probe into the-,conditions surrounding tribal marriages, current customs and agricultural lands and freedom and family lands ami fence sets, the legal holdings and the survivinginistit’butionS of early Vedic settlements from a later a varna point of view, to be disCussad in earlier under the head of tribal secc.M (19) forest’s directories of Dasas and Daves.