Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

Chapter 3
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3.1. The vow (of studying) the three Vedas under a teacher must be kept for thirty-six years, or for half that
time, or for a quarter, or until the (student) has perfectly learnt them.
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3.2. (A student) who has studied in due order the three Vedas, or two, or even one only, without breaking the
(rules of) studentship, shall enter the order of householders.
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3.3. He who is famous for (the strict performance of) his duties and has received his heritage, the Veda, from his
father, shall be honoured, sitting on a couch and adorned with a garland, with (the present of) a cow (and the
honey-mixture).
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3.4. Having bathed, with the permission of his teacher, and performed according to the rule the Samavartana
(the rite on returning home), a twice-born man shall marry a wife of equal caste who is endowed with
auspicious (bodily) marks.
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3.5. A damsel who is neither a Sapinda on the mother’s side, nor belongs to the same family on the father’s side,
is recommended to twice-born men for wedlock and conjugal union.
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3.6. In connecting himself with a wife, let him carefully avoid the ten following families, be they ever so great,
or rich in kine, horses, sheep, grain, or (other) property,
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3.7. (Viz.) one which neglects the sacred rites, one in which no male children (are born), one in which the Veda
is not studied, one (the members of) which have thick hair on the body, those which are subject to hemorrhoids,
phthisis, weakness of digestion, epilepsy, or white or black leprosy.
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3.8. Let him not marry a maiden (with) reddish (hair), nor one who has a redundant member, nor one who is
sickly, nor one either with no hair (on the body) or too much, nor one who is garrulous or has red (eyes),
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3.9. Nor one named after a constellation, a tree, or a river, nor one bearing the name of a low caste, or of a
mountain, nor one named after a bird, a snake, or a slave, nor one whose name inspires terror.