WYAVASTHA-DARPANA. § $2 he sixteenth year; nor, in the case of a soldier beyond the twenty second, nor in that of a itlerchant beyond the twenty fourth.-After that all youths of these three classes, who have not been invested at the propet time, become Pré!yá, or outcasts, degraded from the giga tri. and contemned by the virtuous.”—Consequently, 546. A boy, though not initiated in l'intuitousa in the primary season, may to adopted before the close of the secondary season ordained for that ceremony.” Since after adoption at that time he may be initiated in the "piluyana. 547, 13ut no boy of the Bráh witut, h’shtriyat, or swish/a caste should be - * r : # $, 4 - - adopted after his lowout, and no Shitdrit after his marriage; such adoption, if made, is invalid.t
- Interior as an object of adoption is one, for the performance of the ! pronuyama rite on whom : #e principal ፭t ',t of } {ዚ has elapsed. - Sutherland's וא fit Josis, Note \ }.
There ar, secondary periods allowed: for mistance, the investiture of a Hrithmin may be post pened until sixteen years after the date of conception, that of a Ashetraya uttil twenty two year; after the same date; and that of it l'oishya until twenty four years.- Maen. II. I. vol I. p. 7:}. The author of the Considerations on Hindu Law soul: aliverse to the extension of the limits. Ile maintains that, in the ease of Gore Mohun lock, it was the opinion of all the found its who were ..:-uit...l ot, his ow-half, that proof of his łowo and r the age of five year, was indispensable. He LLS LLS 0 L LSlllllL LSLggLLL AAA LLL SAAAAS AAAAS LLLLL LLLLLS LS LLLS0S 0SLLLLLLStttttS SLLLLLS LLLLLLS to the S I). A 13ut, with respot to the first, it may be observo d, that there don's not appear to have l, cu anv formal opinion actually taken, and, with respect to the second, it is not appareilt on what othority the remark prov-odvil. The author of the Cousil, rations lays it down as a Frennd rule, that adoption cannot take place in any of the classes after the ceremony of tonsure shall have been performi. From what has preceded, it will aspear, however, that ‘invostiture' should have been sa'stituted for tonsure; and that the doctring should have been qualified by the provison, that, tonsure host been persormed previously to the fifth year, it might be rejorated in the family of . . . adopting father, the alopted son thereby beco..ain: an unityt dryámushyńyanu. - Maen lH. L. vił 1. p. 75 + It should be observed, however, that where this ceremony of 1 punityana has one been performed, 1:, insurin, untail bar to adoption is thereby initiviliately created. Its effect cannot, as in the ea (, , ionour, befor the age of five years according to 1* authority of the 19attakit-Ali mãnsit, he so lar neutralised as to admit of its being re-performed after the ceremony of Putro.ht; tın, p. 73. Another question would likewise aris... whether, even after the expiration of the secondary “aron 'or the celebration of the rite in question, a provided in the case of the natural father, the adopter, by 0'serving certain penances, might not derive ability to perform the rite in question. A determination of these points in the Present tompilation, would not, without presumption, he attempt, d. 11 !!!:): l, wover, be remarked, that it appears more reasonable to suppose that the celebration, in the family to his father, of so important a rite as the lostnostina, or the expiration of the -e, oudary period, proseribed for the performance of that ceremony, should constitute an impediment to adoption of a sm. given, by precluding the capability of the rite referred to, bring celebrated in the sandy and pain. o' the adopter –Sutherland's Synopsis, Noto XII This has been doubted by the Translator of the 1)a//aka-Chaud, iki and //a/fuku-Asímánaí, in his Synopsis, at the conclusion of that work. and he hisidently ore... to his inability to settle the question, though he inclines to the negative; but ind pool, no of ther long to authority in support , the affirmative of the question, the fact that invotitore r *t, *.cs a “rolid birth is conclusive again. 1: . Adoption is permitted on the principle that the adopt, d Roi, o born again in the siunily of his adoptin: LLLLLSLLLLS LLLL LLLLLLLS LL LLLLLL LLLL LLLSLLLLLS LLLLLLL SLggS SLLLS SLLLLLLLL LLLLLS LL LLLLLLS * : *ta in the family of the natiral fathor - Maet. H. L. vol. I p. 73. Note. -- \ \ a, . . ; Vy as a
