n as an
offering to the dead.]

[Footnote 204: The Commentator quotes Vasishtha--If a son be
adopted, and afterwards an _aurasa_ be born, the former takes a fourth
part--and deduces from this, that a son of any inferior grade receives
a fourth share when superseded by an afterborn _aurasa._]

[Footnote 205: Manu, ch. 9, sl. 179.]

[Footnote 206: _pitarau._ First the mother, then the father--says the
Commentator. But Manu, ch. 9, sl. 185:--If a man die without male
issue, the father is heir; next to him in order, the brothers--and,
sl. 217--If a man die childless, his mother succeeds.--Such is the
contradictory character of texts and comments on this subject. The law
in use in Bengal is the reverse of the Commentator's gloss.]

[Footnote 207: first, of the whole blood; then, half-brothers. (_M._)]

[Footnote 208: as representing their respective fathers. (_M._)]

[Footnote 209: family; kindred of the same _stirpes_ or stock. These
are thus detailed by the Commentator;

1. paternal grandmother,

2. paternal grandfather,

3. paternal uncles,

4. sons of the uncles,

on failure of paternal grandfather's line, then,

5. paternal great-grandmother,

6. paternal great-grandfather,

7. their sons,

8. their sons' offspring.

All of whom (proceeds the Commentator) are _sapindas_, connected
by food oblations. If they fail, then follow those connected by the
water oblation only, _viz._ seven degrees in the ascending line beyond
_sapindas_, _i. e._ _samanodacas._]

[Footnote 210: divided by the Commentator into three classes, _viz._

1. of one's self, 2. of one's father, 3. of one's mother; as, the sons
of a father's or of a mother's sister, or a maternal uncle (one's own
kin)--the sons of a father's paternal or maternal aunt, or a father's
maternal uncle (a father's kin)--and those in the same relation to a
mother.]

[Footnote 211: _sa-brahmachari_, one instructed together with him in
his religious duties. This head applies only to the first three
classes, those invested with the sacred cord.]

[Footnote 212: as distinguished from the temporary _brahmachari_ or
religious student, which all of the twice born classes should be, in
youth.]

[Footnote 213: who, having been separated, again holds his property in
community with those from whom he had separated. Such reunion is
permitted only with the father, the brothers, and the paternal uncle.
(_M._)]

[Footnote 214: This participle has a masculine termi