A woman who is the ornament of her sex may be married from even a vile race. Nectar, if extracted from poison, may be drunk; women, jewels and other valuables, as also water, can never, according to the scriptural injunction, be impure or unclean.
स्त्रीरत्नं दुष्कुलाच्चापि विषादप्यमृतं पिबेत्। अदृष्या हि स्त्रियो रत्नमाप इत्येव धर्मतः॥