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WYAVASTHA-DARPAN A. Al46 Firádabhangúrnara —“Among those lepers of eight sorts, he who is incapacitated for all solemn rites is described (this word must be supplied) as afflicted with ulcers in all his limbs, or on his temples, forehead, and nose. Since this is merely illustrative, he who is infected with that soul lepresy which is attended with ulcers on any other part of the body, is abominated, and disqualified for all solemn rites. Or the term ' on all his limbs, being employed by the same rule by which two names for kine are used at once in a general and particular sense, the meaning is, “on any part of the body, whother the temples and the rest, or parts different therefrom. Or else the meaning may be, ‘afflicted with ulcers on any one or more of all the parts of the body, or especially with those other ulcers called coppery, black, or white Fores, on any one of the parts specified, namely, the temples and the rest : he who, is afflicted with any one of these diseases is most abominated”.-See Coleb. Dig, Vol. III, pp. 309, 310. “To reconcile the discordant opinions of many wise persons concerning the competence of the leper to inherit and to perform acts of religion, various modes have been exhibited, but, needrie ing to both opinions, a man infected with grievous leprosy is in effect capable of inheriting when he has performed penance : according to Raghunandana and others, men asilicted with elephantiasis, marasmus, honey-coloured gonorrhoea, black teeth, and other distempero difficultly cured, are incapable of inheritanee so long as penance be unperformed.” (See Coleb. Ibig, vol. III. pp. 314, 316. ) This reeonciliation of Jugumn6fhn's is not, however, corrcct, in every rewpoet, inasmuch as no authority is of opinion that a leper with ulcers discharging blood or putrid matter becomes, after performing the expiatory penance, entitled to inheritance. On the contrary, even after the performance of the expiatory penance, he, owing to his remaining still impure on account of the ulcers, as well as not being admitted into society, is excluded from performing the ariddha and other solemn rites, and taking the heritage”.--This is the unanimous opinion of all lawyers, and also consistent with reason, for, although by expiatory penance that power of his sin, which caused him to be doomed to hell, be destroyed, yet the other power of it, which caused him to be exeoimmunicated from Society, still subsisted. In practice too, a leper with ulcers discharging blood or putrid matter is never seen to perform the aráddha and other solemn rites, and inherit patrimoisy. Authorities:—Pulastya: “On the occasion of the eclipse of the ann or moon, and offering of the ten funeral cakes (daska pinda) to the mapes of the deceased (on the day before their first arāddha,) as well as in places of great sanctity, there is no impurity occasioned by ulcers." The maine, however, subsists on other occasions or in other places; thun Devaia —“The persons with sores, those lying in child birth, those delivering women, also menstruous women, and the persons whose relations are dead, and those impure, are disallowed (to perform religious rites at those times.")—Práyashchitta-tattwa. “On there being a sore above the knee, one must not perform the constant (religious) rites ; ho or she must not perform also the casual rites, if there be bleeding even below it."--A text cited in the Nirnaya-Sindhu,