WYAVASTHA-DAANA. 1153 are not competent to share the heritaše, Food and raiment should be given to them, exeepting the outcast. But the sons of such persons, being free from similar defects, shall obtain their father's share of the inheritance—Derala, see Coleb. Da, bhé. p. 108. I. A professed enemy to his own father, a degraded man, one deprived of virility, and a Authority, man formally expelled (by his kinsmen, ) shall not inherit, though begotten by the deceased; 兹 much less if begotten on his wife by a kinsman legally appointed. One afflicted with an obstinate or agonisiug disease (k) and one insane, blind, or lame, from his birth, must be maintained by the family; but their sons may take the shares (of their parents.)-Méradu. See Coleb, Dig. vol. 1 II. p. 303, (k) ‘Obstinate diseases’ are atrophy and the rest ; ‘agonising distempers' are leprosy and whe like.--Coleb. Dig, vol III, p. 303. See.. W. Día Kra. Sung. p. 07. Hero by the expression ‘and the rest' is meant the other diseases occasioned by sin or vice.— $ee ante, pp. 1 138—1142. A possibility exists of an impotent man, and the rest, as above enumerated, espousing wives. “If the eunuch and the rest should at any time desire to marry, the offspring of such as have issue shall be capable of inheriting.” Issue signifies offspring.—it must not be objected, how can they contract marriages, since the eunuch not being mule, is incapable of procreation, and the dumb man and the rest [or those born deaf or blind] are degraded for want of initiation and investiture, because they are unapt for the preparatory j study? The ennuch may obtain issue from his wife by means of another man ; and a person unfit for investiture with the sacerdotal string i* nof degraded from his tribe for want of thnt inititution, any more than a Shudra.-Therefore, the sons of such persons, being either their untural ossspring or issue raised up by the wife, as the case inay be, are entitled, provided they are free from similiar defects, to take their allotments according to the pretensions of their fathers.-- Coleb. Dá bha', pp. 106, 107. 622. But the daughters, of the persons not entitled to inherit as above mentioned, Vyavastha'. must be supported so long as they be not given in marriage, and their childless wives are to be maintained for life, provided they remain chaste”. I. But their sons, whether begotten in lawful wedlock, or procreated by a kinsman on the wife Authority. duly authorised, may take shares, provided they have no disability (g). —Their daughters must be supported so long as they be not disposed of in marriage; and their childless wives who preserve chastity, must be supplied with food and apparel; but disloyal and traitorous wives (j) be banished from the habitation.-Jégnyavalkya. See Coleb. Dig. vol. III. p. 322–324. On this text commentators remark, that two sons of kepers and the rest, namely, one legally
- Vide, Co'eb. Da'. bhr. p. 107;eW. Da'. Kra. Sang. p. 68. Coleb. Dig. vol. III. pp. 308-324. по
