VYAVASTHA2DARPANA 297 SUccession of The HERMIT AND oth ERs. The property of a hermit, an ascetic, and of a professed student, let the spiritual brother, the virtuous pupil, and the holy preceptor take." On failure of these, the associate in holiness, or person belonging to the same order, shall inherit. Thus Ja’anyavalkya says:—The heirs of a hermit, of an ascetick, and of a professed student, are, in their order (m), the preceptor, the virtuous pupil, and the spiritual brother and associate in holiness.” (m) “ Order,” that is, the inverse order.” Therefore, 141. The preceptor takes the property of a professed student.” 142. The virtuous pupil inherits the property of an ascetick.” 143. The spiritual brother, that is, he who is engaged in the same pilgrimage or sojourns in the same hermitage, takes the property of a hermit”. 144. On failure of these, the associate in holiness or the person belonging to the same order inherits.” The professed student is of two descriptions—perpetual or Noishthika, and Upakurbána or temporary.” • , 145. The preceptor inherits the property left by a perpetual student.* For, abandoning his father and the rest, he makes a vow of residing for life in his preceptor's family.” 146. But the property of a temporary student would be inherited by his father and other relations.” Since he does not enter on any such vow, but merely attends his preceptor for the purpose of instruction.* Legal opinions delivered in, and admitted by, the Civil Courts, and selected and approved of by Sir William Macnaghten. Q. A Boiraqi, or religious mendicant, having consecrated an idol, died, leaving considerable property; subsequently to his death, his brother claims his estate; and a person who is a stranger to him in blood also claims the estate, and adduces sufficient evidence to prove that the mendicant had left the order of a house-keeper, had become an ascetic, and had made him (the claimant) his pupil and follower; on the strength of which he had performed the exeguial rites of the deceased. In this case, which of these persons is entitled to inherit the property of the defunct P Wyavasthá. Wyavasthá. Wyavasthá. Wyavasthá. Authority. Vyavasthä. Authority. Wyavasthá. Authority. R. Supposing the mendicant to have actually left the order of a householder, and to have become an - ascetic, in this case is follower and pupil is entitled to the inheritance, to the entire exclusion of his brother, whose fraternal relation can be held to have effect so long only as the proprietor continued in the order of a householder.
- See W. Dá. Kra. Sang. pp. 28, 29. Coleb. Dá bhá, pp. 223, 224.
