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I, 38. DEBTS ; INVALID TRANSACTIONS. 5 I
* 34. Wives, sons, slaves and other attendants
are dependent. The head of the family, to whom
the property has descended by right of inheritance,
is independent with regard to it.
* 35. A child is comparable to an embryo up to
his eighth year. A youth, who has not yet reached
the age of sixteen, is called PogaWa.
* 36. Afterwards he is no longer a minor and
independent, in case his parents are dead. While
they are alive he can never acquire independence,
even though he may have reached a mature age.
* 37. Of the two (parents), the father has the
greater authority, because the seed is superior (to
the womb) ; on failure of the begetter, the mother ;
on failure of the mother, the eldest son.
* 38. All these persons are independent at all
times of those who depend on others. They have
34. Colebrooke (Dig. II, 4, 15) has translated a different reading
of paragraph 34, thus, ‘ A householder is not uncontrolled in
regard to what has descended from an ancestor.’ See, as to the
distinction between inherited and self-acquired wealth, Yagfza-
valkya II, 121.
35. ‘ Comparable to an embryo ’ is one who is not yet allowed
to perform purificatory and other rites. From his eighth year
onwards a boy may perform purificatory ceremonies and commence
sacred study. He is called Pogazzt/a (a young man), because he is
not yet capable of transacting legal business. A. This rule of
Narada has become the foundation of the modern law regarding
the duration of minority. A controversy has recently arisen as to
whether minority terminates at the end or at the beginning of the
sixteenth year. Most, if not all, Indian writers seem to agree in
taking the latter view. A. seems to be of the same opinion, though
he does not express himself very clearly.
36. He remains dependent during the lifetime of his parents,
i.e. if he continues to live in union of interests with them. A.
38. ‘Coercion,’ i.e. punishment or beating; ‘relinquishment,’
i.e. renouncing. A.
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* 34. Wives, sons, slaves and other attendants
are dependent. The head of the family, to whom
the property has descended by right of inheritance,
is independent with regard to it.
* 35. A child is comparable to an embryo up to
his eighth year. A youth, who has not yet reached
the age of sixteen, is called PogaWa.
* 36. Afterwards he is no longer a minor and
independent, in case his parents are dead. While
they are alive he can never acquire independence,
even though he may have reached a mature age.
* 37. Of the two (parents), the father has the
greater authority, because the seed is superior (to
the womb) ; on failure of the begetter, the mother ;
on failure of the mother, the eldest son.
* 38. All these persons are independent at all
times of those who depend on others. They have
34. Colebrooke (Dig. II, 4, 15) has translated a different reading
of paragraph 34, thus, ‘ A householder is not uncontrolled in
regard to what has descended from an ancestor.’ See, as to the
distinction between inherited and self-acquired wealth, Yagfza-
valkya II, 121.
35. ‘ Comparable to an embryo ’ is one who is not yet allowed
to perform purificatory and other rites. From his eighth year
onwards a boy may perform purificatory ceremonies and commence
sacred study. He is called Pogazzt/a (a young man), because he is
not yet capable of transacting legal business. A. This rule of
Narada has become the foundation of the modern law regarding
the duration of minority. A controversy has recently arisen as to
whether minority terminates at the end or at the beginning of the
sixteenth year. Most, if not all, Indian writers seem to agree in
taking the latter view. A. seems to be of the same opinion, though
he does not express himself very clearly.
36. He remains dependent during the lifetime of his parents,
i.e. if he continues to live in union of interests with them. A.
38. ‘Coercion,’ i.e. punishment or beating; ‘relinquishment,’
i.e. renouncing. A.
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