VYAVASTHA-T) ARPANA.. 555 C II A P T E R III. ON MINORITY AN I) GUA R 1)IANSIII P. SECTION.—1. ON MINORITY. 237 Agreeably to the law as current in Bengal, the end of the fifteenth year is the limit of minority.” I. An infant (shishu), before his eighth year, must be considered as similar to a child in the womb; until his sixteenth year (a) he is called bassa (minor) and also paganda (adolescent) . afterwards (he is cousidered as ) acquainted with civil aflairs (or adult in law). NA RA10A and K \^TY \^YA NA. I yaraha ratatara. l ide Coleb. Dig. vol. II. p. 125. (a) “Until his sixteenth year,” signifies to the nearest limit of his sixteenth year : conse quently he is a minor until the close of his sifteenth year. Ihial, vol. i. p. 300. II. Infancy extends to the fifth year; childhood is limitted to the tenth ; adolescence conti11nes to the, sixteenth year, when puberty commences. .1 tors cited by Sri dhara Sica wi. 1%its, p. 300. - Authors agree that minority extends to the end of the sisteenth year; and that until that time the minor is called satia'; but they disser in giving him the other names it pierticular of perio's of his age during minority. Thus in the text of Aa rail, and Art //, /au/ he is denominated “4” to the eighth year; and he is called ‘ hit sa, ’ as well as ‘payanila’ till the sixteenth year of his ago. In the text cited by Sri dhara Siro mi he is ealled 'rumu ra’ till the fifth year, yroyaltda till the tent I., and kissora to the end of the fifteenth year: aster that his puberty commences. Just auto/* alluding to the text of Kasya yana above cited, says as follows: “Under eight years, or before the commencement of his eighth year, he is an infant (s/isu) ; and he is also a minor, (but) dis 参
- Vide Sri^krishna's Comment, on the Daya bhaga (Coleb ), p. 58. Macu. Hl. L. vol. I. p. 103.
- It may be here mentioned that, agreeably to the Regulations of Government, the state of mi"ority is held to extend to the end of the eighteenth year. See Section 2, Regulation xxvi. of 1793. V y a v as-tłıá Authority
