One who has observed celibacy strictly and sincerely, who has studied the sacred texts of his family, should marry a girl. She should be pleasant having good physical features. She should be pleasing to his heart. She must not have been marricd earlier to another. She would be of his age or a little less. She should not belong to his gotra or to his relatives who receive tarpanas and the Hke from him. She should be free from leprosy and other ailments. She must belong to a different gotra and Pravara. She should not be more than sixteen years of age. She must be pleasing to the heart and to the eyes.