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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 9.18.5
sri-rajovaca
SYNONYMS
sri-raja uvaca -- Maharaja Parikshit inquired; brahma-rishih -- the best of the brahmanas; bhagavan -- very powerful; kavyah -- Sukracarya; kshatra-bandhuh -- belonged to the kshatriya class; ca -- also; nahushah -- King Yayati; rajanya-viprayoh -- of a brahmana and a kshatriya; kasmat -- how; vivahah -- a marital relationship; pratilomakah -- against the customary regulative principles.
TRANSLATION
Maharaja Parikshit said: Sukracarya was a very powerful brahmana, and Maharaja Yayati was a kshatriya. Therefore I am curious to know how there occurred this pratiloma marriage between a kshatriya and a brahmana.
PURPORT
According to the Vedic system, marriages between kshatriyas and kshatriyas or between brahmanas and brahmanas are the general custom. If marriages sometimes take place between different classes, these marriages are of two types, namely anuloma and pratiloma. Anuloma, marriage between a brahmana and the daughter of a kshatriya, is permissible, but pratiloma, marriage between a kshatriya and the daughter of a brahmana, is not generally allowed. Therefore Maharaja Parikshit was curious about how Sukracarya, a powerful brahmana, could accept the principle of pratiloma. Maharaja Parikshit was eager to know the cause for this uncommon marriage.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness