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26 conqueror to accept the offer. Under the above two customs, Sri Krishna, the Pandavas and some others of those days married more than one wife. There might also be some other reasons which were not known to any one except the husband.

It may be that some members of a family in olden times spent all the day in chatting with Pandits and others and in listening to music. They may have been in some way or other incapacitated from taking out-door exercise or may have been utterly lazy.

It may be that some one ancestor was whimsical enough to spend too much time in bathing, in anointing with oil, and in shampooing and so forth. That person perhaps had some nervous defect or was a sufferer from rheumatism.

In cases like these we must not simply take the precedent from the habits of our