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LAWS OF MANU.
V, 67.
67. (On the death) of children whose tonsure (Kadâkarman) has not been performed, the (Sapindas) are declared to become pure in one (day and) night; (on the death) of those who have received the tonsure (but not the initiation, the law) ordains (that) the purification (takes place) after three days.
68. A child that has died before the completion of its second year, the relatives shall carry out (of the village), decked (with flowers, and bury it) in pure ground, without collecting the bones (afterwards).
69. Such (a child) shall not be burnt with fire, and no libations of water shall be offered to it; leaving it like a (log of) wood in the forest, (the relatives) shall remain impure during three days only.
70. The relatives shall not offer libations to (a child) that has not reached the third year; but if it had teeth, or the ceremony of naming it (Nâmakarman) had been performed, (the offering of water is) optional.
71. If a fellow-student has died, the Smriti prescribes an impurity of one day; on a birth the purification of the Samânodakas is declared (to take place) after three (days and) nights.
72. (On the death) of females (betrothed but) not married (the bridegroom and his) relatives are purified after three days, and the paternal relatives become pure according to the same rule.
lives or not, the full period of impurity must be kept. Nár., moreover, asserts that in the first and second months the impurity shall last three days. Sådhvî,' becomes pure,' i.e.' fit to perform sacred rites' (Gov.). Nâr. takes the word in the sense of chaste.'
67. Nand. inserts verse 78 immediately after verse 66.
72. According to the same rule,' i.e. 'according to that given in verse 67' (Medh., Gov., Nand.). or just as the husband's relatives, i.e. after three days' (Kull., Nâr., Râgh.).
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