षड् आनुपूर्व्या विप्रस्य क्षत्रस्य चतुरो ऽअवरान् । विश्शूद्रयोस् तु तान् एव विद्याद्) धर्म्यान् अराक्षसान् ॥ [म्धर्म्यान् न राक्षसान्]
ṣaḍ ānupūrvyā viprasya kṣatrasya caturo 'avarān | viś.śūdrayos tu tān eva vidyād) dharmyān a.rākṣasān || [M.dharmyān na rākṣasān]
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
It seems extremely probable that this and the next three verses contain, as Sir W. Jones thinks, several conflicting opinions on the permissibility of the different marriage rites. The commentators, however, try to reconcile them by various tricks of interpretation. So HI,. % in the case) of a Kshatriya, and the Asura (marriage in that) of a Vaiśya and of a Śudra.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.