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XXVII, 21.
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agreement and makes another contract of the same description, (in which a) greater or less (amount is stated), it is termed an alteration of a transaction.
16. When (a debtor) having received a loan at the rate of two per cent. (in the month) promises to pay five per cent., that subsequent agreement is valid.
17. Between two successive transactions, the first is (rendered) void (by the second); a subsequent agreement prevails over the one preceding it in time.
18. When a man first makes a deposit and converts it into a pledge afterwards, after receiving money (for it), or sells it, the second transaction prevails over the first.
[19. Forbidden practices are found among the Southerners in the present day, (such as) matches with a maternal uncle's daughter, in spite of the prohibited degree of relationship on the mother's side (causing such unions to be illegal).
20. The highly reprehensible custom of a brother living with his deceased brother's wife, and the delivery of a marriageable damsel to a family is found in other countries.
21. What is more, matches with a mother occur among the Pârasikas. The inhabitants of some countries do not allow the presentation of fresh gifts (of food) at a Sraddha offering to those Brahmans who have been fed at a Sraddha held on the eleventh
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19-24. These texts will be published elsewhere. They have been taken from the Samskara Kanda of the Smritikandrika, where they are quoted from an uncertain author. 20 has been printed, as a text of Brihaspati, in Professor Bühler's Uggvalâ, p. 101. The term Parasikas' denotes the Persians, or perhaps the Parsis of India.
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| SR No. | 007685 |
| Book Title | Grihya Sutras |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hermann Oldenberg |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1886 |
| Total Pages | 2642 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 49 MB |