Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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NARADA.
IV, 1.
FOURTH TITLE OF LAW.
RESUMPTION OF Gift. *1. Where a man wishes to resume what he has given, because it has been unduly given by him, it is called Resumption of Gift, a title of law.
* 2. What may be given and what not, valid gifts and invalid gifts; thus the law of gift is declared fourfold in judicial affairs.
* 3. Again, what may not be given is eightfold; what may be given is of one kind only; of valid gifts there are seven species; and sixteen sorts of invalid gifts.
*4. An Anvâhita deposit, a Yakita, a pledge, joint property, a deposit, a son, a wife, the whole property of one who has offspring,
* 5. And what has been promised to another man; these have been declared by the spiritual guides to be inalienable by one in the worst plight even.
*6. What is left (of the property) after the expense of maintaining the family has been defrayed,
IV, 1. Unduly' means in a mode opposed to law. Mitákshara, Vîramitrodaya, Mayakha, &c. Manu VIII, 214.
2. Valid gifts,' literally what is given.' 'Invalid gifts,' literally what is not given.'
4. For the meaning of the technical terms, Anvâhita and Yakita, see II, 14. The prohibition of such gifts as would leave the family destitute appears to relate principally to charitable donations and religious endowments.
4-6. Yâgñavalkya II, 175.
6. That only may be given which is left after the cost of living has been defrayed for those whom the head of the family is bound to support. Any gift, on the other hand, which causes hardship to the family, is reprehensible, and not meritorious. A.
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