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for them, the Mantras now used in first marriages should certainly be used in the second, especially as there is nothing: in those Mantras which would make them inapplicable to re-marriage of females."
CHAPTER IV.
Validity of widow marriage under an Act of the British Indian Legislature.
Fastidious critics may still delight in the entertainment of their doubt as to the validity of the widow marriage under the Hindu Law though it has been very clearly established in the foregoing Chapter that such a re-marriage is legal and valid under the Shastras. It must now be brought home to them that under Act XV of 1856 our British Indian Government has made the validity of the Hindu widow re-marriage as clear as broad day light. For their in-
