According to the injunctions of the scriptures, the husband should regard his wife as an acquisition due to his own pristine deeds or to what has been ordained by God. One, therefore, commits no sin by accepting for wife a girl who had been promised to another by her kinsmen or for whom dower had been accepted by them from another.
देवदत्तां पतिर्भार्यां वेत्ति धर्मस्य शासनात्। स दैवीं मानुषीं वाचमनृतां पर्युदस्यति॥