VYAVASTHA-DARPANA. 1 ԶՏ Vis. Of him, who has been formally degraded, the right of inheritance, the funeral cake, and in *uation ut water, -re extimes-sa-i-iiui, colei, Dig. vol. iii. Im. (o) “ Dograded’—that is, excommunicated for a heinous crime, or for crimes in the seond or third degree.* Degradation takes place in the case of a heinous crime once consciously or twice unconsciouly committed.” The heinous crimes are as follows:– “killing a Brååmen, drinking forbidden liquor (h), steal. - #. - - * - - . . . ing (gold from a priest.) adultery with the wife of a father, natural or spiritual, and associuting with such as commit those offences (a), wise legislators must declare to be crimes in the highest degree.–Man v. Ch. V 1. r. 55. A person is also degraded by once commiting such a sin or crime as would cause his expulsion from caste. (a) “Associating with such as commit those offences,'—that is, associating with such a person, for a poriol of one year, as has committed the crimes in the highest degree; this is declared in the text subjoined: “ lie, who associates himself for one year with a sallen kinner, falls like him; not by sacriticing, reading the Jeda, or contracting affinity with him, ( since by those acts, he loses his class immediately, ) but even by using the same carriagdor seat, or loy taking his food ut the saume board.—.}1anu. Ch. XI. r. J > l. (h) Here, by drinkin... is meant the drinking of unconsecrated spirituous liquor; hecause the drinkino of consecrated or purified liquor, which is considered a lawful act, does not cause degradaஇon. This is declared in the A7 ruk/a-tan/ru ( Chapter W. ) “I) rinking unconsecrated spirituous li juor, a orihmen becomes guilty ( of the sin ) of killing a host/men ; but drinkin of the consecrated or purified liquor a brú, wen shines as the burning fire.--The text, prohibiting the drinkies of spirituous liquor, purport- to drinking of the cursed (that is, unroscorated, liquor. In all the four yuga, t, the si'irituous liquor has been ( considered ) the purifier (of any one's person: ) it has become undrinkable only by reason of bein; cursed: consequently, it would be (a:rain) drinkable on the cur. A being removed.” As to the text cited in the Tithi-fatswa–“ Spirituous liquor is unsit (prohibited ) to be drunk, given, and received,”—its meaning is, as explained by Joag humandana himself, that “Fpirituous iquor, unless consecratel or offered to a deity, is unfit to be drunk and received.” • See Priyashrhista-Tattwo, Práyachitta-Tireka, and ('olel. Pig. vol. III. P. 304. it որդ.
- “Fuga'—an age. In the Hondu so stem of chronology theru are four yuqas, which succeed each other in eternal rotation, viz. the Satya vulsa, comprising a period of one million, seven hundred and twenty eight thousand уear», the Tretá yuga, one milion, two hrindred years, the Incépara yuga, eight hundred and sixty four thousaud years, and the Kali yuga, four hundred and thirty two thousand years.
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