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.
ततो मयैवमुक्ते तु वाक्ये धर्मभृतां वरः। पिता मम महाराज बाह्रीको वाक्यमब्रवीत्॥ यदि वः शुल्कतो निष्ठा न पाणिग्रहणात् तथा। लाभान्तरमुपासीत प्राप्तशुल्क इति स्मृतिः॥