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WYAW ASTHA-DARPANA. 824 CHAPTER VII-ADOPTION. SECTION 1–A soN IS NECESSARY. 481. It is necessary for every person to have a son for presentation of the obla tion of food and libation of water, the discharge of his debts (spiritual and tem poral,) and the attainment of future beatitude." j. A Brååmann, igmediately on being born, is produced a debtor on three obligations: to the Holy saints, for the practice of religious duties: to the gods, for the performance of sacrifice: to his fore-fathers, for offspring, Or he is absolved from debt who has a son, has performed sacri'ices, and practises religious duties.— D. Mim. Sect. I, § 5. H. When he has paid his three debts to the sages, the manes, and the gods, let him apply | is mind to final beatitude; but low shall he fall, who presumes to seek heatitude, without having Joscharged those debts. After he has read the sedas in the form prescribed by law, has legally in gotten a son, and has performed sacrifices to the best of his power, (and has paid his three debts,) he may then apply his heart to eternal bliss. But if a bra/man have not read the Joda, if he have not begotten a son, and if he have not performed sacrifices, yet shall aim at final Heatitude, he shall sink to a place of degradation.—Jianu, Chap, W. J. r. 35–47, III. Fathers desire male offspring for their own sake. (reflecting, this son will redgem the from every debt whatsoever due to superior and inferior beings : therefore a son, hegotten by him, should relinquish his own property, and assiduously redeem his father from debt, lebt he fall to a region of torment. If a devout man, or one who maintained the Faerificial fire, die a debtor, all the merit of his devout ansterities, or of his perpetual sire, shall belong to his creditors.--Nărada, 尊 甲 IV. He, who, having received a sum lent or the oke, does not repay it to the owner, will be born (hereafter) in his creditor's house, a slave, a servant, a woman, or a quadruped.— Frihupati. 龜 W. From passages of scripture, such as, “ or he is absolved from debt who has issue,” &c. this predept resulting, ‘Let him procure absolution from debt through a son,’ it is established, that the son, as being the instrumental cause of such absolution, is a means of completion,-- D. Mím. Chap. I. § 38. झ” 鬱 . . " The future beatitude of the man depending, according to Hindu superstition, on the performance of his obscquies and the payment of his debts by a son, as the means of riderming him from an instant “late of suffering after death. The dread is, of a place called put; a place of horror, to which the manes ": the childless are supposed to be doomed; there to be formented with hunger and thirst, for want "...those oblations of food, and libations of water, at prescribed periods, which it is the pious, and indeed duty of a son (puttra) to offer—Str. H. L. vol. I, pp. 61, 62. Vyavastha Authority.