18 On Ordeals. [No. 1, 



who suffer of a disease caused by the phlegmatic humor, or who are 

 (otherwise) sick, or women or asthmatic persons." 



Katyayana (says) : 



" Let him not give the ordeal by fire to smiths, nor (that by) water to 

 those who (by their profession) have to work in water (as divei-s, etc.) 

 nor by any means poison to those who know the application of charms. 

 Let him not order a man, who is engaged on fulfilling a religious vow 

 or who has a disease of the mouth (to undergo the ordeal) of the rice 

 grains. 



A man who is engaged on a vrata (vratin) (means) a man who 

 performs the milk-vow and the like. 



Pitamaha (says) : 



" Consecrated water should not be given by wise (men) to those who 

 drink spirituous liquor, to adulterers, gamblers or atheists." 



Narada (says) : 



" He shall avoid to give consecrated water to a man, who has com- 

 mitted a great crime, or who does not obey the law, an ungrateful 

 (person), a eunuch, a despicable (person), an atheist, a man whose crimes 

 (faults) are (generally) known. 



Katyayana (says) : 



" But the king should not order (the abovementioned ordeal) for 

 people, who ought not to be touched, for those of the lowest castes, for 

 6laves, barbarians, evil-doers ; nor for those born by pratilomya (whose 

 mother is of a higher caste than the father). 



He should order for them, at the time, the ordeals which are known 

 (to be fit) for the (season). 



Known (to be fit) for them are the scales, poison and the like (each 

 of which is fit for some proper season.) 



If the person who has to undergo the ordeal is unable (to do so,) 

 the same (Katyayana) prescribes a substitute (to be chosen for him,) 

 in the Divyatattva. 



" If there is no hindrance (for the person, who has to undergo the 

 ordeal) as far as regards place or time, then let him undergo it, as 

 it is proper. He can have it performed by another (person) ; that 

 is the rule in the contrary case." Anyena, by another, harayet, he 

 may cause it to be taken, (means) he may have it performed by a sub- 

 stitute. Viparyaye (in the contrary case), (means) if the person who 



