ing
afflicted with incurable disease.]

[Footnote 112: and this, notwithstanding they are wholly without
patrimony or estate derived from their father. (_M._)]

[Footnote 113: that there is such a debt.]

[Footnote 114: capable of inheriting and managing. (_M._)]

[Footnote 115: _i. e._ marries.]

[Footnote 116: This is the reading sanctioned by the Commentator,
_viz._ _putro' nanya'sritadravyah_, signifying, that, on failure of
those before designated, a son who would be otherwise incapable, by
reason of blindness, &c. is to be deemed capable. Another reading may
be, as suggested by the Commentator, _putro nu'aya'sritadraoyah_, "not
the son whose paternal estate another holds," which is adopted by
Colebrooke, and by his author, Jagannat'ha, (Dig. B. 1, ch. 5, s.
171)]

[Footnote 117: _e.g._ "Give such a one money, he will not deceive you;
he is the son of such a one." (_M._)]

[Footnote 118: "If he do not pay, I will." (_M._)]

[Footnote 119: Manu ch. 8, sl. 160-162.]

[Footnote 120: metaphorically in the original "If all stand under the
same shade:" The Commentator explains.]

[Footnote 121: lit. "publicly."]

[Footnote 122: as of a field, garden, &c. (_M._) Manu, ch. 8, sl.
143.]

[Footnote 123: fire, water, &c. (_M._)]

[Footnote 124: The Commentator excludes from this exception a culpable
act of the monarch, but the text is general.]

[Footnote 125: Even though there be a written memorial of the pledge,
and attested; yet, without actual acceptance and possession, it is
incomplete. (_M._)]

[Footnote 126: _charitrabandhakam. charitra_ (the mode or the subject
of pledge) is defined by the Commentator to be either, moral worth,
or, the merit earned by performance of religious rites, such as
ablution in the Ganges, &c. We have rendered it as the mode, not
subject, of pledge. See Jagannat'ha's Digest (Colebrooke), Bk. 1, ch.
3, sec. 2, text cxxiv.]

[Footnote 127: Receiving on one's plighted word (_satyankara_)
signifies, borrowing on a solemn promise to repay. The application
is,--where, at the time of handing over the pledge, it was expressly
declared by the debtor, that the loan should be repaid, even if
increased to two-fold the original sum, and the pledge not abandoned;
in such case also, the debtor should be made to repay twice the amount
of the debt contracted.(_M._)

The Commentator adds another meaning or application of the latter
words of this sloka, in which, reciting the first part,