VYAWASTBIA*IDARPANA 319 156. The wife or any dependant member, if be expelled without a just Vyavasthā. cause, must get maintenance from the master of the family during his life, and out of his estate since his death. 157. Separate maintenance should be allowed to those who for a just cause Vyavasthā. could not live in, and mess together with, the family. 158. The amout of maintenance should be fixed with reference to the Vyavasthā. proprietor's estate. 159. If means allow, not only food and raiment should be supplicd, but also Vyavasthā. an amount should be assigned for necessary and religious expences. 160. Should a woman without unchaste purposes quit the family house and "Y"o. live with her parents or own relations, yet still she is entitled to maintenance. 161. The widow however is not entitled to maintenance by residing elsewhere Vyavasthā. without a cause, if she was directed by her husband to be maintained in the family house. 162. An unchaste woman forfeits her right to maintenance”. Vyavastlhá. The other class of the dependant memberstof the family are:—impotent persons, persons born blind or deaf, mad men, idiots, the dumb, those who have not some one organ or have lost
- The son is entitled to take the share of his father, and his mother must be maintained out of his allotment. Brethren are not bound to maintain the unchaste widow of their childless brother; nor has any authority been found for imposing it. as a civil obligation on the son to maintain his mother, if she be an ivdultress. Colebrooke's remark. See Strange's Hindu Law Vol. II. pp. 381, 382.
As chastity is a condition of a woman's inheriting on failure of male issue, so it would seein that for want of it she forfeita her right to inaintenance. Strange's Hindu Law. Vol. II. p. 132. + The claim of another class of dependants relmains to be noticed, namely, that numerous one, excluded, some ly their destiny, others by various disabilities, from inheritance, but all, by the humane provision of the law, entitled, out of it. to an abundant maintenance;—all, unless the outcast and his issue subsequently born, are to be excepted. According to MANU, the substituted heir is to provide it for life, without stint, to tho best of his power, subject to penalties and consequences, that have been already stated. With regard to the outcast and his issue, authorities differ;-upon which it is observable, however, that he is not excepted by MANU, and that he is admitted by JA GNYAVALRYA. It is true, the measure is restrieted to “food and railment;” to which, if the outcast be admissible, it would seem difficult to exclude the adulter. ous widow. Of persons disqualified to inherit, their childless wives, continuing chaste, are moreover to be provided for, as - are also the muiutenance and nuptials of their unmarried daughters. Strange's Hindu Luw, Vol. I. pp. 234, 235. _
