vYAVASTHACIDATêIPANA. 11 5 Death merely (i. e. physical death) is not meant : it (also) alludes to degradation (n), the state of a travelling devotee, and the like (), because of the analogy of the (circumstance which causes) extinction of right. Dáyabhága. See Colerooke’s translation, Ch. I. parą. 31. (u) Degradtion occurs when one has slain a bráhman or committed some other atrocious crime, and has not performed penance, and even refuses to submit to it *; for Sr.%rishna Turkúlankára + and Raghunandana t are of opinion that the fallen sinner forfeits his right when he has not done penance, and is averse to doing it. [e] The state of a hermit, as well as the extinction of wordly assections is here comprehended under the term “and the like.” Srkrishna's commentary on Dáyabhāga. See Coleb. I)a? bha', p 14. After withdrawing his affection (from things of this world,) if he abdicate his estate in this form, “let this be no longer mine,” then indecd his right is divested by abdication: and afterwards, even though temporal inclinations revive, the right is not renewed. from the declaration of the party. Thus Raghunandama, as Jaganna'tha Tarkapunchánana remarks, is justified. "I .ب The resignation ean only be known 6 A person's being absent and not heard of for twelve years entitles his heirs to inherit his property : this rule is sounded on the presumption of his death.' If no tidings of a person gone abroad be received for twelve years, his son and kinsmen should account him to be certainly dead.S Juma or Yuma Sed Coleb. Dig. Vol. III. p. 815. f commentary on 1) jabhaga. p. 3. ! Dáyatatir t. p. 3.
- Cob. Dig. Vol. II. p. 525. See Dáyatatura, p. 3. and Srikrishna's comment on Dáyabhaga, p. 25.
§ In fixing the date of the death of missing persons, the holy sages (Rishis) and compilers are not of one epunion, as is manifest from the texts quoted in Virnaya-Sindhu. “So if the time of twelve years of a person's absence have gone by, they shall cause his death-rites to be solemnised at the continencement of the thirteenth year ( oriddha Manu). If no tidings be had of a person for twelve years, such person shall be treated as one dead, by the burning of his effigy made of Kusha grass (Vrihaspati). If any one's father be absent, and neither a letter nor any news of him be received, then at the end of 15 years, his effigy shall be formed and burnt in the ulammer prescribed by the law ; from which late all his obsequies shall be però med (Bhabishya Purána). It is said in Madana-Ratna that (the rule of) waiting for twelve years to all missing persous, except a father. Iłut (it is written) in Grijhyakiriká—“It is sitid that the obsequies of a missing person in the first period of life (i.e. under 50 years of age) should he performed after the lapse of 20 years, of one of middle age (under 75.) after fifteen years, and of a person in the last period of life (above 75 years) after twelve years " (from the day of his or her disappearance.) Vyas astlıá. Vytavæst}iá. Authority
