attested, and their
effect as proof depends upon local usage. He quotes Narada as to the
private writings. For the instruments emanating from authority, he
refers to sl. 317, 318, 319 of Yajnavalkya's first Book, _viz._

"When the monarch bestows lands or creates a charge in favor
of any one, he shall, for information of future good
monarchs, put it in writing, either on cloth or copper,
setting his seal thereto. He shall inscribe the names of his
ancestors and his own [also the donee's (_M._)], the extent
of the gift, its description by boundaries, also the date;
all this shall be authenticated under his hand."
]

[Footnote 171: This word in the 94th sloka we have rendered
'discharge.' Its ordinary and literal sense is 'purification.']

[Footnote 172: _scil._ ordeals. (_M._)]

[Footnote 173: the ocean god.]

[Footnote 174: the inferior Brahma, the immediate cause or creator of
the universe.]

[Footnote 175: It is only of self-acquired property that unequal
partition can be made. Of that which is inherited or ancestral, there
is co-ownership: it cannot therefore be apportioned at the father's
pleasure. (_M._) Infra sl. 121.]

[Footnote 176: Jagannat'ha, in his Digest, quotes the Dipakalika and
other authorities interpreting this injunction to refer to such wives
only as have not male issue. (Colebrooke, vol. 3, p. 97.)]

[Footnote 177: Something, however valueless; in order that the heirs
of the separated son may have no claim to a share of the family
inheritance, (_M._) Manu, ch. 9, sl. 207.]

[Footnote 178: For instance, if one son have a large family, or be
disqualified to earn a livelihood, the father may give him a portion
larger than the others. But an unequal partition from angry impulse,
or weak-mindedness, has no validity. (_M._)]

[Footnote 179: Manu, ch. 9, sl. 104. Whenever the father wishes, is
one of the ordained periods for partition; the second is, when the
father has renounced worldly enjoyment and the mother is past
child-bearing; and this partition may be enforced (according to
Narada) at the son's desire, though the father object. Partition
should also be made, the son desiring it, if the father lead a vicious
life, or be suffering under incurable disease; even though the
mother's menstruation have not ceased. The third period for partition
is, the father's decease. (_M._) Manu divides,--to the eldest two
aliquot parts, to the second son one and a half