After I had uttered those words that foremost of pious men, viz., my father Balhika, answered me, saying-If in your opinion the relation of husband and wife belongs to the gift and acceptance of dower and not to the actual taking of the maiden's hand with due rites, the father of the maiden would show himself to be the follower of a creed other than that which comes from the ordinary scriptures. This is what the accepted scriptures say.