Killing and chopping off the heads of weeping kinsmen, the bridegroom sometimes forcibly takes away the girl he marries. Such marriage, O son, passes by the name of Rakshasa.
हत्वा छित्त्वा च शीर्षाणि रुदतां रुदतीं गृहात्। प्रसह्य हरणं तात राक्षसो विधिरुच्यते॥