VYA WASTHA.DARPANA. 0.40 But if h : busland, though a ponless man, do not himself adopt a son, nor anthorise her to adopt one, the only means jest hel for her spiritual welfare is to devote herself aster his death to pions aristerity. 189. A woman must not, however, adopt a son while there exists a son of her rival wife such adoption, is made, is invalid. For she being the mother of a on by means of the on of her (to wise, the ful stitute for a son s un necessarv, and un lawful.- See ene, p. s80. 1. The affiliation of a son, by a woman proceeding legally, with the Forction of her husband, to got stitute for him male issue, only takes place where no son of that person may exist. But, if he have any, although she may be destitute of the same, such adoption does not obtain; for, to proc, ed therein, would be unproductive of the object.—l). Ch. Sect, I, § 24. II. li. that a-, , , he would not be exempted from exclusion from heaven. In anticipation of tho, , i.e. ou, the two to Ats of Maau and Pro/as, ati, by propounding the existence of filial relation, in to son of a rival wife, to his step-mother, provide for her exemption from exclusion from, heaven and the performance of her funeral obsequies; for, except the offspring of her husband, , , , , on has e no other. Since a wife ) can have no offspring but the issue of her husians, the son in question even, preserves her lineage. Therefore, where the son of a rival wife exists, as the whole benefit even of a son is attained, no affiliation, (by the stop. mother, of hin, or ano:her, ; as a sou given, and so forth, takes place.—l), Ch. Sect. I. § 25, 26,
it. short— 130 Every person to whom no ourasa son has been born, or is not to be born, or bog born has diod without male issue, is under the necessity of adopting a subsi.tate for such son 491 The substitute was of cleven descriptions, There i cing tweł, e descriptions of sons including the ourasa.
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Marriage is to le contra t d in onder to have a son, and a een is required to perform the obsequies, on matria-e tailing in this most important object. (viz. ) the production of an ourasa son, (i. e. a son by the man himself in lawful wedlock, ) or in the event of a man not being married, or اما با وهي: ht lesag his wife before begotting a son, recourse is necessarily had to the adoption of an artificial son outstituted for the ourasa, in order that obsequith might not go unperformed, and the celestial bliss be forfeit.d.- Sco Str. H. L. vol. 1. pp. 62 & 66. Wyevastha , Authority Vyawaatha'
