WYAWASTHA?.DARPANA, 1 ] 48 Consequently, by the term "leper "is here meant the person afflicted with a light leprosy unexpiated by penance, and one afflicted with leprosy discharging matter or blood whether expiated or not expiated by penance; because the sinful taint of the person afflicted with slight leprosy being removed by expiatory penance he has become entitled to perform the arāddha and other rites, and as such he has a right to inherit. Now, although the sinful taint of a person afflicted with a leprosy discharging matter or blood be removed by expiatory penance, yet th other effect of his sin namely, that of excommunication from society, subsists for which son, as well as that of his always remaining impure on account of the ulcers, he is incom. petent for the performance of the ariddha and other rites. It follows then that he is not entitled to the heritage. Jagannātha, the author of the Piráda-bhangárnata, says: “A person who is afflicted with elephantiasis, and who has not made expiation, is errluded from inheritance; but one who has made atonement shall take a share, since the sinful taint is removed; for that was the sole cause of his exclusion, This is accurate; and in like manner, a person afflicted with marasmus is only excluded if he have not made expiation. Raghunandana holds, that expiation for a man afflicted with elephantiasis, or other similar disease, is ordained for the purpose of enabling him to perform acts of religion ordained in the Pod, ; by parity of reasoning, he becomes competent to inherit property, as well as to perform religious ceremonies: it is not found, in any other case, that a son competent to perform obsequies and other acts of religion is not qualified to inherit. "( Coleb, Dig. Vol. III, p. 313.) This, however, ik applicabl- to lepera other thun those afflicted with ulcers discharging putrid matter or blood; inasmuch as one afflicted with such leprosy, being incompetent to perform the wrūdlhi and other rites, notwithstanding his making the expiation, is at all times incompetent to inherit. According to Righunandana, they who have black teeth, and the like, as well no he who is afflicted with slight elephantiasis (should penance be unperformed, ) can neither be burnt qfter their decease, nor succeed to property during th; ir tires; for these also are sinners in the first degree; (and) “they', says the Brahma-purána, who have committed crimen in the first degree, are considered as degraded persons'.-See Coleb. Dig. Vol. III. p. 412. 620 Save and except the outcast and his issue (a ), all the persons excluded vyayath. from inheritance, as above mentioned, are, however, entitled to food and rainent." (a) By the term ‘ his issue' is here meant the issue hegotten by an outcast or degraded person when so circumstancell, for, being begotten by an outcast that child also is an outcast. I. But it is just that the heir who knows his duty should give all of them (i) food and rai. ment for life without stint, according to the best of his power; he who gives them nothing, sinks assuredly to a region of punishment.—Hanu. (i) “To all these,” namely, to eunuchs and the rest, food and raiment must be given
- Coleb. Da bá. pp. 103, 104. W. Da. Kra. Sang, pp. 66, 67. Coleb. vol. III. pp. 308-324. 受
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