WYAVASTHA’-DARPANA. 551 II. For younger brothers, whose investiture and other ceremonies have not been performed, their elder brothers (a) shall perform them out of the collected wealth of the father.” VR111AstAT1. III For those, whose forms of initiation have not been regularly performed by the father, these ceremonies must be completed by the brethren out of the patrimony”.” NATADA. (a) “Elder brothers”—that is, those elder brothers of whom the sacraments have been completed. By the term “out of the collected wealth of the father ” it is meant that, uie ceremonies must be performed out of the estate of the father in which both elder and younger brothers have interest. Consequently all the brothers, whether elder or younger, whether their sacraments have or have not been completed, shall contribute money for the ceremony (to be performed).” 232 The marriage and other ceremonies of unmarried daughters must be defray., ed in proportion to the wealth (inherited)." Visitsu. Da' T., p. 19. Thus also JagNYAVALRYA—“Uninitiated brothers should be initiated by those for whom the ceremonies have been already performed; but sisters should be disposed of in marriage, giving them as an allotment a fourth part of a brother's own share.” The text which ordains the allotment of a fourth part (to the unmarried sisters) intends the appropriation of a suffigient sum for the nuptial ceremony (Dá. T. p. 19, ) as is plainly declared by Dev ALA : “A nuptial portion shall be given to (unmarried) daughters out of their father's estate.” 233 Authors consider the portion assigned as intended only for indispensable srcraments.” The sagraments or initiatory ceremonies that must be performed by brothers are as follows:
- y - - - حمی –Ja takarma ( 1 ) ; Na makarna ( 2 ) ; Wishkramana (8) ; Annapraskana ( 4 ) ; Chu rakurana ( 5 ) ; Upanayana (6) ; and „Viva ha (marriage ).
All of these ceremonies concern men of twice-born classes: they do not concern men of the - جمے te fourth class. i. e., the Shudras. o • Coicb. Dig: vol. III. pp. 93-103. Coleb. Daí bha”, pp. 65-07. A ceremony ordained on the birth of a male, before the section of the naval string, and which consists in making him taste clarified butter out of a golden spoon. (2) Ceremony on giying a name, performed on the eleventh, twelfth, or even the hundred and first day. (3) Carying the ia out of the house to see the moon, on the third lunar day of the third light fortnight from his birth; or to see the sun in the third or fourth month. (4) Feeding the child with rice in the sixth or eighth month, or when he has cut teeth. (5) The ceremony of tonsure, performed in the second or third year after birth. (6) Investiture with the marks of the class, performed in the eighth year from the conception of a bráhmana; but it may be anticipated in the fifth, or be delayed to the sixteenth year, Authority Vyavastlı:í Wyavasthá
