158 A notice of the Gaunalca Smriti. [No. 3, 



1. Qaunakobam pravaxyami putrasamgrahamuttamam. 

 Aputro mritaputro va* putrartbam sarnuposbya ca.f 



2. Vasasi kundale dattva ushnisliamj canguliyakam. 

 Acaryam dbarmasamyuktain vaisbnavam vedaparagam.. 



3. Barbih kucamayam caiva palacam cedhmameva ca. 

 Etaiiyabyitya§ bandhdracca jnatinabuya yatnatab.|| 



4. Bandbunannena sampujya^[ brahmanatncca vi9eshatab. 

 Agnyadbaiiadi* yat tantram kritvajyotpavanantakam.f 



5. Datub samaxani gatva tu putram debiti yacayet.J 

 Dane samartho datasmai ye§ yajne neti pancabbib. 



6. Bevasya tveti mantrena hastabhyam parigribya ca. 

 Angadangetyricam japtva caghraya|| cicumurdhani. 



7. Vastradibbiralainkritya putrachayavaham^f sutam. 

 Nrityagitaicca vadyaicca svasticabdaicca samyutam.* 



* Datt. mini, page 1, line 6, Calcutta edition, bandhyo mritaprajo vapiti patn- 

 antararn. But ibid, page 32, line 1, this reading is attributed to Vriddhagauta- 

 ma. The sense remains the same, only the use of the word bandhya is re- 

 markable. 



Samsk. kaust. fol. 47, page 1, line 3, Bombay lith. ed. 1 : bandhya mritaputrar 

 vapi ; i. e. " a woman who is barren or whose children have died." This read- 

 ing, if correct, would authorise women, to adopt without having obtained the 

 permission of their husbands or relations. But it is wrong, because in v. 13 

 and 14, the adopting person is spoken of in the masculine, and because Vedic 

 rite cannot be destined in the first instance for women. Perhaps the reading* 

 was intentionally altered from that given in the Datt. mim. 



f S'aun. kar. svakulasya ca " and for the sake of his family," gives no good 

 sense. 



X S'aun. kar. " coshnisham." It seems to be a correction in order to avoid 

 the hiatus which, however, is of common occurrence in the Anushtubh of the 

 Dharmacastras. S'arnsk. kaust. " chattram, an umbrella," for dattva. The 

 whole then depends on ahritya. 



Datt. mim and Datt. chand. add after this one half cloka : madhuparkena 

 sampujya rajanam ca dvijan cucin, i. e. " having honoured the king (or lord of 

 the village) and pure^Brahmans with the Madhuparka," according to the Datt. 

 chandr. p. 65, 1. 7 Calcutta edition, the verse also occurs in the Vriddhagauta- 

 masmriti. If inserted here, it disturbs the construction. 



§ Etanahritya. Datt. mim., Datt. chand. and Vyav. May. The neuter is the 

 form required by the grammar. 



|| Sattamah, Vyav. May. 



" Annena sambhajya ; Datt. mim, Datt. chand. Vyav. May. 



* Anvadhanadi yat ; Vyav. May. 



Agnyadhanikam tatra Datt. mim. Datt. chand. Anvadhana means a kind- 

 ling of the fire preceded by a statement of the objects of the ceremony 

 (samkalpa) . 



t Otpavanadikam S'aun. kar., Vyav. May. Datt. mim. 



% Vacayet; S'aun. kar. 



§ Datasau ; S'aun. kar., datasmi Vyav. May. 



|| Aghraya ; Datt. mim. Datt. chand. 



T Chatrachayagatam ; Samsk. Kaust., i. e. walking under the umbrella. 



* Samyutah ; Samsk. Kaust. 



