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XXVII, 21.
MISCELLANEOUS.
389
agreement and makes another contract of the same
description, (in which a) greater or less (amount is
stated), it is termed an alteration of a transaction.
16. When (a debtor) having received a loan at
the rate of two per cent, (in the month) promises to
pay five per cent., that subsequent agreement is
valid.
17. Between two successive transactions, the first
is (rendered) void (by the second) ; a subsequent
agreement prevails over the one preceding it in
time.
18. When a man first makes a deposit and con-
verts it into a pledge afterwards, after receiving
money (for it), or sells it, the second transaction
prevails over the first.
[19. Forbidden practices are found among the
Southerners in the present day, (such as) matches
with a maternal uncle’s daughter, in spite of the
prohibited degree of relationship on the mother’s
side (causing such unions to be illegal).
20. The highly reprehensible custom of a brother
living with his deceased brother’s wife, and the de-
livery of a marriageable damsel to a family is found
in other countries.
21. What is more, matches with a mother occur
among the Parasikas. The inhabitants of some
countries do not allows the presentation of fresh gifts
(of food) at a -Sraddha offering to those Brahmans
who have been fed at a Tracldha held on the eleventh
19-24. These texts will be published elsewhere. They have been
taken from the Samskara KaWa of the Smrz’tiZ’andrika, where they
are quoted from an uncertain author. 20 has been printed, as a
text of Bn'haspati, in Professor Buhler’s Ug^vala, p. 101. The term
1 Parasikas ’ denotes the Persians, or perhaps the Parsis of India.
MISCELLANEOUS.
389
agreement and makes another contract of the same
description, (in which a) greater or less (amount is
stated), it is termed an alteration of a transaction.
16. When (a debtor) having received a loan at
the rate of two per cent, (in the month) promises to
pay five per cent., that subsequent agreement is
valid.
17. Between two successive transactions, the first
is (rendered) void (by the second) ; a subsequent
agreement prevails over the one preceding it in
time.
18. When a man first makes a deposit and con-
verts it into a pledge afterwards, after receiving
money (for it), or sells it, the second transaction
prevails over the first.
[19. Forbidden practices are found among the
Southerners in the present day, (such as) matches
with a maternal uncle’s daughter, in spite of the
prohibited degree of relationship on the mother’s
side (causing such unions to be illegal).
20. The highly reprehensible custom of a brother
living with his deceased brother’s wife, and the de-
livery of a marriageable damsel to a family is found
in other countries.
21. What is more, matches with a mother occur
among the Parasikas. The inhabitants of some
countries do not allows the presentation of fresh gifts
(of food) at a -Sraddha offering to those Brahmans
who have been fed at a Tracldha held on the eleventh
19-24. These texts will be published elsewhere. They have been
taken from the Samskara KaWa of the Smrz’tiZ’andrika, where they
are quoted from an uncertain author. 20 has been printed, as a
text of Bn'haspati, in Professor Buhler’s Ug^vala, p. 101. The term
1 Parasikas ’ denotes the Persians, or perhaps the Parsis of India.