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মৃত্যুঞ্জয় বিদ্যালঙ্কার this presidency, may be regarded as possessing the highest legal authority according to the Jiindoos. After having consulted nearly thirty works on the subject current in Rengal and the northera, western and southern parts of Hindooethan, annong which are all those quoted for the proteinee by the air tour of this parapolet, he says. “I laving examined ałł these work+ and weigned their meaning, I thus reply to the questious I have been desired to answo-t je thou states Mfuncio having directed titre followitag formula. to be addressed to the bride by the priest at the titue of an arriage, “in thou perpetuo liv the companion of thy husband, in itse and in death.” Hüreets, a later writer, says that it is th: 3 inheritance of evely woman belonging to the four casts, not being pregnant, or a lot, having a little child. to burii herself with her husband. The Compiler afterwards quotes Vishnow-mo', once as speaking thus, “siet the wise either eolixace a life of abstinence and chastity, or moutit, the burning pile ;” but he forbids the latter to the unchaste. He then enumerates particularly the various rules laid down by him and others who have followed him on the same side of the question, relative to the iime and circumstances in which a woman is permitted to burn herself, and in what cases she is even by them absolutely forbidden. These extracts shew that binding the woman, and the other acts of additional