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THE FIFTH LECTURE.
which those objects and persons should possess. In
such a case if each of the qualities had the force of a
Vidhi and formed an indispensable condition, then it
would be simply impossible to perform the duty.
For instance, in connection with the duty of marrying,
Manu lays down that the bride should, among other
things have a name which is easity pronounceable,
should have a gait like that of a swan, whose hair is
gently flowing.1 If these adjectives be taken as
essential parts of thb Vidhi for marrying, then in many
cases marriage would be impossible. Therefore, the
adjectives must be taken as mere matters of description
as what is desirable and not as conditions precedent,
affecting the question of validity of the marriage itself.
The maxim in question is to the same effect. It
relates to the following text from the first word of
which it has taken its name.
‘With a re 1-ooloured, yellow-eyed, one year old
cow Soma is to be bought.’2
The.objector in effect says that in order to discharge
the duty of buying Soma, you must not only make the
purchase with a cow which is yellow-eved and one veur
old, but that somehow or other you must give effect
to the word ‘red-coloured.’ Is the ‘red coloured’ some-
thing else than the intended quality of the cow ?
The answer in the first place is, that the adject-
ive does not relate to anything else than the identical
1 ’suwt#! rty^u^ifaTf 1
griff frn II Manu iii. 10.
2 Cf. #'<uTf<T ?f<r 1
Jaimini III. i. 12.
THE FIFTH LECTURE.
which those objects and persons should possess. In
such a case if each of the qualities had the force of a
Vidhi and formed an indispensable condition, then it
would be simply impossible to perform the duty.
For instance, in connection with the duty of marrying,
Manu lays down that the bride should, among other
things have a name which is easity pronounceable,
should have a gait like that of a swan, whose hair is
gently flowing.1 If these adjectives be taken as
essential parts of thb Vidhi for marrying, then in many
cases marriage would be impossible. Therefore, the
adjectives must be taken as mere matters of description
as what is desirable and not as conditions precedent,
affecting the question of validity of the marriage itself.
The maxim in question is to the same effect. It
relates to the following text from the first word of
which it has taken its name.
‘With a re 1-ooloured, yellow-eyed, one year old
cow Soma is to be bought.’2
The.objector in effect says that in order to discharge
the duty of buying Soma, you must not only make the
purchase with a cow which is yellow-eved and one veur
old, but that somehow or other you must give effect
to the word ‘red-coloured.’ Is the ‘red coloured’ some-
thing else than the intended quality of the cow ?
The answer in the first place is, that the adject-
ive does not relate to anything else than the identical
1 ’suwt#! rty^u^ifaTf 1
griff frn II Manu iii. 10.
2 Cf. #'<uTf<T ?f<r 1
Jaimini III. i. 12.