This snapshot is from Agni puran. It clearly says the groom offers a cow and a bull to the bride family. When woman if married by taking money (kind of selling) etc is called Asur-Vivah and was considered demonic or adharmic marriage.
Today most of hindu culture is not what is used to be. 4 caste were not exactly birth based but karma based. Here this one example shows how today's marriage are simply a corrupt form of marriage and difficult for parents giving their only daughter(s). Hindus must look at themselves and time to dump the wrong things we picked up during 2000yrs of invasion. Our culture got corrupted after invasion but we must fix this if we want to progress like it happened in ancient time.
