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XVII, 70.
INHERITANCE.
64. If she was appointed, the child belongs to both the males connected with the appointment.
65. No appointment (shall be made) through a desire to obtain the estate.
66. Some say, 'Or, one may appoint (a widow out of covetousness), after imposing a penance.'
67. A maiden who has attained puberty shall wait for three years.
68. After three years (have passed), she may take a husband of equal caste.
69. Now they quote also (the following verses) : 'But if through a father's negligence a maiden is here given away after the suitable age has passed, she who was waiting (for a husband) destroys him who gives her away, just as the fee which is paid too late to the teacher (destroys the pupil).'
70. Out of fear of the appearance of the menses let the father marry his daughter while she still runs about naked. For if she stays in the house) after the age of puberty, sin falls on the father.'
64. Gautama XVIII, 13. "To both the males connected with the appointment,' i.e. to the deceased husband for whose sake the appointment is made, and to the natural father of the child, to whom the widow is made over.
65. Colebrooke, Mitâksharâ II, 1, II. Krishnapandita thinks that the Sätra forbids an appointment which is made with the intention to secure the estate or a share of the estate of the natural father, from whom the kshetraga son inherits also (Yagñavalkya II, 127). But it seems equally probable that it is intended to prevent a widow from agreeing to an appointment in order to obtain control over her husband's estate.
66. Krishnapandita thinks that the rule refers to all cases of appointment.
67-68. Vishnu XXIV, 40, and note. 70. Gautama XVIII, 23.
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