Thapap ji, I am not defending the document. I think the section we are talking about is poorly written and not well organized. Nevertheless, as I said, the author is characterizing the rituals that follow 'Kanyadan' as humiliating to women, which I agree. Kanyadan: This custom was established as a belief that it would be a holy deed to give daughters in marriage as a charity like money, land, gold and cow. In the very sacred place of the marriage ceremony itself the bride is humiliated by making her eat the left-outs of the bridegroom and also making her bowing to his feet and also drinking the so-called holly water that has washed up his feet. At the bridegroom's home too many such rituals of humiliation are made essential for her.