পাণ্ডিজ্য ও শাস্ত্রজ্ঞান 锦敦 cruelty which the author of this pamphlet justifies, are totally forbidden. The Soodhвеќомжооdве as quoted by the Compiler says, Let the Inother enter the fire after the son has kindled it around his father's corpse; but to the father's corpse and the mother let him not set fire ; if the son set fire to the living mother, he has on him the guilt of murdering both a woman, and a mother. Thus the possibility of a woman's being bound to her husband's corpse is taken away : while the act, is left perfectly optional, the son is not to be in the least degree accessary to the mother's death ; if sho burn herself at all, it Inust be throwing herself into the flames already kindled. And the Nirnuya-sindhoo forbids the use of any bandage, bamboos, or wood by way of confining the woman on the funeral pile ; nor before she enter it must the least persuasion be used, nor must she be placed on the firo , by others. Thus time practice as exista ng in Bengal and defended in this work, is deliberate murder even according to the legal authorities which recommend burning as optional. - r Mrityooniuya however shews from various authors, that though burning is tèrmed optional, it is still not to be recommended. To this effect he quotes the Vijuyuntee, “While Brumhachurya and burning are perfectly optional, burning may arise from concupiscence, bnt Brumhachurya cannot ; hence they are not equally worthy, how
