Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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GAUTAMA.
XV, 19.
junior has kindled the sacred fire first, a younger brother who has done that, a person who despairs of himself, a bald man, a man who has deformed nails, or black teeth, who suffers from white leprosy, the son of a twice-married woman, a gambler, a man who neglects the recitation (of the sacred texts), a servant of the king, any one who uses false weights and measures, whose only wife is a Sudra female, who neglects the daily study, who suffers from spotted leprosy, a usurer, a person who lives by trade or handicrafts, by the use of the bow, by playing musical instruments, or, by beating time, by dancing, and by singing ;
19. Nor, (sons) who have enforced a division of the family estate against the wish of their father.
20. Some allow) pupils and kinsmen (to be invited).
21. Let him feed upwards of three (or) one (guest) endowed with (particularly) excellent qua
lities.
22. If he enters the bed of a Sudra female immediately after partaking of a funeral repast, his ancestors will lie for a month in her ordure.
23. Therefore he shall remain chaste on that day.
19. Below, XXVIII, 2, it will be prescribed that the division of the family estate may take place during the lifetime of the father with his consent. From this Sūtra it would appear that sons could enforce a division of the ancestral estate against his will, as Yâgħavalkya also allows (see Colebrooke, Mitâkshara I, 6, 5-11), and that this practice, though legal, was held to be contra bonos mores.
20. Âpastamba II, 7, 17, 5-6.
21. According to Haradatta, this Sätra is intended as a modification of Satra 8. 22. Manu III, 250.
23. Manu III, 188.
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