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LAWS OF MANU.
IX, 60.
60. He (who is) appointed to (cohabit with) the widow shall (approach her) at night anointed with clarified butter and silent, (and) beget one son, by no means a second.
61. Some (sages), versed in the law, considering the purpose of the appointment not to have been attained by those two (on the birth of the first), think that a second (son) may be lawfully procreated on (such) women.
62. But when the purpose of the appointment to (cohabit with) the widow has been attained in accordance with the law, those two shall behave towards each other like a father and a daughterin-law.
63. If those two (being thus) appointed deviate from the rule and act from carnal desire, they will both become outcasts, (as men) who defile the bed of a daughter-in-law or of a Guru.
64. By twice-born men a widow must not be appointed to (cohabit with) any other (than her husband); for they who appoint (her) to another (man), will violate the eternal law.
death by his relatives. On failure of issue,' i.e.' of sons' (Gov., Râgh., Nand.), or of sons and of an appointed daughter' (Medh.). If the son born is not fit to offer the Sraddhas, a second may be begot (Medh., Kull., Nâr.).
60. According to the commentators, the expression 'the widow' is not intended to prohibit an appointment by a diseased or impotent husband.
61. Because the Sishtas say, "He who has one son only, has no son” (Medh., Gov., Kull., Râgh.).
62. Those two,'i.e. the elder brother and the female appointed.'
63. Those two,' i.e. an elder or younger brother.' The rule,' see verse 6o. For the last clause, compare verse 57.
64-68. These verses flatly contradict the rules given in the preceding ones. But it by no means follows that they are a modern
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