You should not marry a woman who is of a yellow colour, or one who is attacked with leprosy, or onc born in a family in which there has been epilepsy, or one that is low in birth and habits, or one that is born in a family in which the disease called leprosy has appeared, or one belonging by birth to a family in which there are early deaths. Only that maiden who is gifted with auspicious indications, and who is accomplished for all sorts of qualifications, who is agrecable and beautiful, should be married. One should marry, O Yudhishthira, in a family who is higher or at least equal to his OW1l.