Upnishad

SR No.: 007670
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1879
Total Pages: 1835
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 35 MB

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XVII, 1.
INHERITANCE.
12. Vaidehakas must live by keeping (dancing girls and other public) women and profiting by what they earn.
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13. Sûtas must live by managing horses.
14. Kandalas must live out of the town, and their clothes must be the mantles of the deceased. In this their condition is different (from, and lower than, that of the other mixed castes).
15. All (members of mixed castes) should have intercourse (of marriage, and other community) only between themselves.
16. (In the lower castes also) the son inherits the property of his father.
17. All members of those mixed castes, whether their descent has been kept secret or is generally known, may be found out by their acts.
18. Desertion of life, regardless of reward, in order to save a Brâhmana, or a cow, or for the sake of a woman or child, may confer heavenly bliss even upon (members of those) base castes.
XVII.
1. If a father makes a partition with his sons, he may dispose of his self-acquired property as he thinks best.
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XVII. 1. Y. II, 114. 2. Y. II, 121. — 3. M. IX, 216; Y. II, 122; Gaut. XXVIII, 29; Colebrooke, Dig. V, 2, CII. -4-16. M. IX, 185-189; Y. II, 135-137; Âpast. II, 6, 14, 2-5; Gaut. XXVIII, 21. — 4-13, 15. Colebrooke, Dig. V, 8, CCCCXVII; V, 8, CCCCLIX. 17. M. IX, 211, 212; Y. II, 138; Gaut. XXVIII, 28. 18. M. IX, 194, 195; Y. II, 143, 144; Colebrooke, Dig. V, 9, CCCCLVII. 19. M. IX, 196; Y. II, 145. - 20. M. IX, 197; Y. II, 145.- 21. M. IX, 192; Y. II, 145; Gaut. XXVIII, 24; Colebrooke, Dig. V, 9, CCCCXCIV. -22. M. IX, 200; Colebrooke, Dig. V, 9, CCCCLXXIII. 23. Y. II, 120.
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