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Strategies & Market Trends : India Coffee House
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To: ratan lal who wrote (2432)8/19/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: JPR  Read Replies (3) of 12475
 
Ratan:
These are some of the things, I dug up:
Marriage as a well-established institution was not mentioned at the time of Rig Veda, and was in the process of making. People had considerable freedom to choose a spouse (call it a love marriage). Family or parental consent was not a necessary precondition before marriage. Miscegenation between Aryans and Dasyus (dark-skinned aboriginals) was discouraged. A simple Vedic marriage rite was described. Bridegroom, family and friends join the bride and her party and have a wedding-feast featuring cow-beef. When Beef-eating was dropped, I don't know.
Beef-eating was dropped later, because of cow's (bull/bullock) usefulness in tilling, milk production, transportation, manure production etc. When cow was regarded as sacred is unknown to me. But, it was a well-established fact during Mahabharata peiod.
JPR
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