" . r VYÄ VASTHA-DARPANA. $22 T AA MLL LLLLS LLLLLLS AAAAAA AAAA AAATTTM MMgSAAAAAA AAA January 1888—S. D. A. Rep. vol. VI, p. 219. SECTION W. who to whoMMAYOR MAY NOT GIVE A SON FOR ADOPTION. 514 The father of several sons may of his own authority, and the mother of several sons may with the assent of her husband, give a son in adoption to a person, who is of the same class or caste, destitute of a son, son's son, and son's grandson in the male line, and not a prohibited relation.” t I. “He is called a son given, whom his father, or mother, affectionately gives as a son, being alike (a) and in a time of distress (i) conferring the gift with water.—Manu. D. Ch. Sect, I, § 12. . (a) “Alike' ] Belonging to the same class.-In fact, the construction of the word ‘alike.’ (Sadrisła) in Manu’s text, as signifying of the same class is only for, elsewhere, the participating, as an heir, of such adopted son, is shown; and the participating in the inherit. anceNof one unequal in class, is impossible.t Thus Shounaka declares: “If one of a different class, should, however, in any case have been adopted as a son, he should not make him the participator of a share; this is the doctrine of Shounaka.”t—Pāaka explicitly declares this: “A person of the same class must be adopted as a son. Such a son performs the oblations, and takes the estate; in default of him, one different in class, who is regarded merely as prolonging the line. He receives food and raiment only, from the person succeeding to the state"—lia. § 3, 15, 18. Accordingly, Priddha Goutama forbids the participation, in inheritance, of one not of the same tribe, thus, -“ or should one of a different class be taken as a son, in any instance, let him (the adopter) not make him a participator of a share; this is the doctrine of Sounaka.” D. Mím. Seet. II. § 21. , i Hence, it is established, that one of a different class cannot be adopted as a son-Ibid. § 22, • See the section next following, See Macn. H. L. vol. I. pp. 60, 67. t In the prement ( kali) age, the ಶ್ಗ with a damsel of a different class having been prohibited, and consequently the production of a son, in the womb of such a wife, the adoption of a son of a different 'class, not to mention his disinherisiod, if ever adopted, must, a fortiori, be concluded to have been
kohibited such adoption is moreover contrary to custo, which itself is transcendant law, and supersedes the senal maxims ; اليونان = See ante, pp. 21, 61, 808-818, • p Wyawwthá. Authority.
