WYAVASTHA-DARPANA. 10 12 SECTION XI.--Tue Effects of Abortion. 580. An absolute dataka, properly adopted, censing to belong to the gotra (race or general family) of his natural father, becomes a member of the family of his adopter, and represents his legitimately begotten son (ourast, J and the duties and rights of the ouritsa son devolve upon him.” 象 Consequently,– 581. He has no longer a connection with his natural parents and their families, and the reciprocal duties (a) and rights (i) also become extinct. (a) By “duties' is here meant the contracting of impurity, the performance of obsequies, and so forth. (i) By ‘rights' is meant the title to inherit and the like. 582, The only relation which still subsists is that of sapindu by the hody, that is, through consanguinity ; and it is on account of the existence of this relation and so forth that an adopted son cannot marry in the familios of his natural parents.t • The legally adopted duttaka, or son given, in all cases is invested with every filial right, in respect to his adoptive father, of whose family he becomes a member. The dattaka adopted sun ceases to have any claim to the family or estate, and is incapable of performing the funeral rites, of his natural father, except, where affiliated as a Dryámushyāyana, or son of two fathers. The adopted non cannot marry any kinswoman related to his father and mother, within the prohibited number of degrees, as his wonsanguineal relation endures: nor can the son of two fathers inarry in the general family of either. The adopted son hot only inherits of his adoptive father but likewise, lineally and collaterally, of the near and distant kinsmen of that person. He likewise represents the real legitimate kon, in relation. ship to his adoptive mother, whose ancestry are his maternal grandsires. - Sutherland's Synopsis, Head Fourth. The adoption being once completed, the son adopted loses all claim to the property of his natural family, but he is estranged from his own family partially only, For the purposes of imarriage, mourning, &c. he is not considered in the light of a stranger, and the prohibited degrees continue in full force as if he had never been removed. His own family have no claim whatever to any property to which he may have burceeded; and in the event of a son so adopted having succeeded to the property of his adopting father, and leaving no issue, his own father cannot legally claim to inherit from him, but the widow of his adopting father will succeed to the property. He beeamos ( with the exception above noticed ) to all intents and purposes a member of the family of his adopting father, and he succeeds to his property, collaterally as well as lineally-Maen. H. L. vol. 1. pp. 69, 70. The above two remarks do not appear to be correct in every respect, since in impurity also the dattaka son is estranged from the family of his natural father; and his is prohibited to marry not only within certain degrees in the family of his natural father but totally in that gotra.-See the Section on Marriage, and the clause treating of impurity. Adoption being a substitution for a son begotten, its effect is, by transferring the adopted from his own family, to constitute him son to the adopter, with a consequent exchange of rights and duties. Of these, the principal are the right of succession to the Adopter on the one hand, and the correlative duty of performing for him his last obsequies, on the other—'Str. H. L. vol. I. p. 85. f Bee the Section on Marriage, and the elause treating of the sapinda re#ion. 输 8 } Vyawaatbö.
