217.  Sometimes the father of a daughter bestows her upon a bridegroom under the contract that the son born of that daughter by her husband should be the son of the daughter’s father.  Such a son, who is dissociated from the race of his own father, is called a Putrika-putra.

218.  Anugraham is that merit in consequence of which faults become neutralised and the stained person may come to be regarded as deserving.

219.  As Drona, Aswatthaman, Kripa, Rama and others.

220.  Uditastamita means one who having earned wealth spends it all in gifts.  Astamitodita is one who though poor at first succeed in earning wealth afterwards; i.e., one who having become rich, keeps that wealth for spending it on good purposes.

221.  Upon the completion of a Sraddha, the Brahmana who is officiating at it should utter the words yukta which means well-applied.  Certain other words such as Swadha, etc., have to be uttered.  The meaning is that the Brahmana who assists the performer of the Sraddha by reciting the Mantras should, upon completion, say unto the performer that the Sraddha is well-performed.  As the custom is, these words are still uttered by every Brahmana officiating at Sraddhas.

222.  K. P. Singha wrongly renders the word somakshayah as equivalent to somarasah.

223.  Upon the conclusion of a Sraddha or other rites, the Brahmana who officiates at it, addresses certain other Brahmanas that are invited on the occasion and says,—­Do you say Punyaham—­The Brahmana addressed say,—­Om, let it be Punyaham!—­By Punyaham is meant sacred day.

224.  The fact is, the slaughter of animals in a sacrifice leads to no sin but if slaughtered for nothing (i.e., for purposes of food only), such slaughter leads to sin.

225.  One is said to become impure when a birth or a death occurs among one’s cognates of near degree.  The period of impurity varies from one day to ten days in case of Brahmanas.  Other periods have been prescribed for the other orders.  During the period of impurity one cannot perform one’s daily acts of worship, etc.

226.  In this country, to this day, there are many persons that go about begging, stating that they desire to go to Banaras or other places of the kind.  Sometimes alms are sought on the ground of enabling the seeker to invest his son with the sacred thread or perform his father’s Sraddha, etc.  The Rishi declares such practices to be sinful.

227.  Literally that are afraid of thieves and others.  The sense, of course, is that have suffered at the hands of thieves and others and are still trembling with fear.

228.  The two exceptions have been much animadverted upon by unthinking persons.  I have shown that according to the code of morality, that is in vogue among people whose Christianity and civilisation are unquestionable, a lie may sometimes be honourable.  However casuists may argue, the world is agreed that a lie for saving life and even property under certain circumstances, and for screening the honour of a confiding woman, is not inexcusable.  The goldsmith’s son who died with a lie on his lips for saving the Prince Chevalier did a meritorious act.  The owner also who hides his property from robbers, cannot be regarded as acting dishonourably.