Marriage
idea · 8 works · 15 mentions · 26 anchored passages
marriage · wedlock · Brāhma · Daiva · Gāndharva · Paiśāca · Prājāpatya · Rākṣasa · already married · bride-piece
in the texts
Stromata
The central topic of chapter 23: the nature, purpose, philosophical evaluation, and scriptural regulation of marriage.
And if this, then marriage too.
" But those who approve marriage say:
" And for her too the calamity was a marriage.
Adversus Marcionem
The institution of marriage, said to have been abolished by Marcion.
For what beaver is so great a self-mutilator of the flesh as the man who has abolished marriage?
defending wedlock outright then, finally, when it is enemy-wise accused under the name of foulness, to the destruction of the Creator, who accordingly blessed wedlock for the honesty of the thing toward the increase of the human race, just as He blessed the whole of creation for whole and good uses.
Even now, the god of Marcion, who opposes marriage, how can he seem a lover of little ones, whose whole cause is marriage?
Hymn 5 to Aphrodite
Marriage is both a divine institution refused by Hestia and the social fiction Aphrodite uses to make her union with Anchises seem honorable.
take these as bride-piece.
First is the daughter of Zeus who holds the aegis, bright-eyed Athena;
For there were many of us, nymphs and marriageable maidens, playing together;
Nicocles or the Cyprians
The intimate partnership and compact between spouses that should be preserved faithfully.
Furthermore, I had no patience with the perversity of men who take women in marriage and make them partners in all the relations of life, and then are not satisfied with the compacts which they have made but by their own lawless pleasures bring pain to those whom they expect never to cause them pain and who, though honest in all other partnerships, are without conscience in the partnership of marr …
Barlaam and Josaphat
The institution of marriage, debated via scriptural citation between the girl and Josaphat, she arguing it is honorable, he arguing his vow overrides it.
For it is permitted to those who wish to share in marriage—but not to those who have once promised to keep their virginity for Christ.
" she, composing her bearing and her glance and her voice and her whole self for enticement, said, "Join yourself to me in the fellowship of marriage, and I shall gladly follow your commands.
Viṣṇu Smṛti
The eight classical types of marriage (Brāhma, Daiva, Ārṣa, Prājāpatya, Gāndharva, Āsura, Rākṣasa, Paiśāca), ranked by righteousness and tied to differing spiritual rewards.
By purchase is the Āsura.
By capture in war is the Rākṣasa.
The Gāndharva is also for Rājanyas.
Law in a Free State
The institution of marriage, treated as the sole current legal basis of establishing legitimate parentage in England, and compared to registration and adoption.
From the earliest times we find two modes of legitimating children—the process of adoption and the process of marriage.
I may venture to remind you that, according to the English law, the only process of legitimating children is by the marriage of their parents before the birth of such children.
So far as the above three reasons are concerned, it would seem that a system of legitimation might be devised in every way simpler and more convenient than that of marriage alone.
Symposium
The institution and desire for conjugal union prompted by the final performance.
At last, the banqueters, seeing them in each other’s embrace and obviously leaving for the bridal couch, those who were unwedded swore that they would take to themselves wives, and those who were already married mounted horse and rode off to their wives that they might enjoy them.