V YA VASTH A. DARPAN A. * * * * Therefore, although by the pro Juction of a son, the exemption from debt, deduced from the “st of Man w subjoined. In y have taken place, still, on the death of -uch son, for the sake of funeral rites, the affiliation of another son, is indispensable. “by the eldest, at the moment .. birth, a man be om 's father of male issue, and absolved also from debt to his progenitors.” ltru. Ş 5. 'The term “ male issue,” (p.m.//ra, ) here used, is inclusive of the grandson and great orandson in the in de line ; ) for these equally present oblations of food, and preserve the line. Otherwise, it would follow that the adoption of a son, by one whose son had died, not withstanding the existence of a grands in s in the male line, ) were without reason. It therefore results that, only one destitute of a son, grandston, an great grandson (in the male line,) may adopt.*--!). Ch, Sect, I, § to. By a man destitute of a son, &c.” --Sine, it is shown by this, that the being to destitute is a cause ; in omitting to adopt a son, an offence even is incurred ; for the precept enjoining the pro litesion of a son being positive, it results that the contravention of it is the cause of an oftence; and on defect of any son in general, exclusion from heaven is declared in this text: “Heaven awaite not one destitute of a son, &c.” – l). Mím. Seet. 1. § 5. (i) The term ‘ always' signifies that, in the present case, no definite period is required, as in such cases as that contemplated in this passage: ) ‘the barren woman, in the eighth year, is to be stiperseded.”–1). Míni. Seet. I. § 53. {u} . The somera? cake,'—the Sráž//a or funeral repast. “Water,'—that is, the presensing f water in the two united palms, and so forth. “Solemn rites, meaning rites in honor of the deceased, cremation and the like.—T). Mím. Sect. I. § 5 , 55. These are the cause f he/s. The reason occasioning the adoption is the cause. This, from being used in the sing lar number, shows these ceremonies, collectively, are the cause, and not to dividually ; and consequently, the meaning is, that there is not a distinct affiliation, severally or each, but one adoption only, on account of the whole : for on default of a Fon, the failure of the "lation of food and other rites is the consequence. ---/hid. § 51, 55. The cause assigned as above by the author of the /) offaka-m/mánxi are not however all, the "lebrity of name, that is, prolonging lineare, h ing another cause of adoption assigned by Manu. The author, omitting that cause, cites only those in the text of .1/ri, namely, funeral cake, water, and solemn rites. Had these been all, there was no necessity of adopting a son while a brother's son existed; since he could perform all those acts just as a son. The author of the 19tt/aka “ By n man destitute of a son.". --The word son, here used, is inclusive also of the son's Ron and “andson (in the male line,) for through these the exclusion from heaven denounced in such passages as heaven awaits not one destitute of a son.” is removed ; since it is declared in the text Fuljoined, that "ansions of the happy are attained through the grandson and the others. “By a son a man conquers *** by a son's son he enjoys immortality; and afterwards by the son of a grandson he reaches the “lar abode.”—D. Mim. Sect. I. § 13.
