Ch. xi. Indostan and Tibet. 193 



" child, if after the decease of her lord she devote 

 " herself to pious austerity.* 



The permission to a brother or other kinsman 

 to raise up an heir for the deceased husband, 

 which has been noticed, extends only to women 

 of the servile class.| Those of the higher classes 

 are not even to pronounce the name of another 

 man, but " to continue till death forgiving all 

 " injuries, performing harsh duties, avoiding every 

 " sensual pleasure, and cheerfully practising the 

 " incomparable rules of virtue. "J 



Besides these strict precepts relating to the 

 government of the passions, other circumstances 

 would perhaps concur to prevent the full effect 

 of the ordinances which encourage marriage. 



The division of the people into classes, and the 

 continuance of the same profession in the same 

 family, would be the means of pointing out to 

 each individual, in a clear and distinct manner, his 

 future prospects respecting a livelihood; and from 

 the gains of his father he would be easily enabled 

 to judge whether he could support a family by 

 the same employment. And though, when a man 

 cannot gain a subsistence in the employments 

 appropriate to his class, it is allowable for him, 

 under certain restrictions, to seek it in another; 

 yet some kind of disgrace seems to attach to this 

 expedient ; and it is not probable that many per- 



* Sir William Jones's Works, vol. iii. c. v. p. 221. 

 f Id. c. ix. p. 343. 

 % Id. c. v. p. 221. 



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