Select Cases in Hindu Law Decided by Her Majesty's Privy Council and the Superior Courts in India; With Notes Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...of another, under whose family name it is performed." " Sons given, and the rest, when the ceremonies of tousure and the like have been performed on them by the adopter's own family are deemed adopted sons, any other is called a slave,"--Chapter OLXXXII, page 148, Idem. J--Not only are the Hindoos deeply impressed with the certanity of a future state, upon a conviction and dread of which the practice of adoption is founded, but they also consider sin to bo so inherent in our nature as to require distinct and specific means of expiation, --hence the institution, of a series of initiatory ceremonies commencing previous to conception and prodncing altogether, in the three superior classes, regeneration It is in the performance of those, in the family and name of tho adoptive father, that filiation is considered to be effectually accomplished, &c., &c.--"With regard to two of them in particular, it is of importance that they should remain to be performed in the family of the adopter subsequent to adoption. These are tonsure, shaving Ca, tika Parana. J This last in said to be a doubtful passage. of tlie head, and investiture of the cord,"--p. p. 76 and 77, Strange Volume I. See also p. 69, Volume I., MacNaghten's Hindoo-Law, 'It is lastly requisite that the adopted son should be initiated inthe name-and family of the adopting party, with the prescribed forms and solemnities." The above authorities seem to lay down abundantly the necessity of the performance of Some Ceremonies in the case of adoption according to the Dattaka form, -which obtains in Bengal, to prove beyond doubt the intention of the adoption; in contradistinction to the rules of adoption in the Kritima form, which'prevaila in the province of Mithilah. "This form requires no ceremony to...