If the father is living, there is not joint rite for the youth, but on the twelfth day one should perform the ceremony for him alone.

99. Marriage, with women and S'udras, is declared to take the place of vows. Previous to the taking of vows, with all the castes, rites are done according to age.

100. He who is little attached to action, who is little bound by sense-objects, and he who is young in age of body, requires but scanty rites.

101. In boyhood and in youth the cot, the bull and other sacrifices should be performed; and the gifts of land, the great gift and the gift of a cow should be made.

102-107. With all ascetics there is no burning, no water rites; and the ten-days' ceremonies should not be performed for them by their sons.

A man, by the mere holding of the staff, becomes Narayana ; because of carrying the three-fold staff they never go into the condition of the departed.

Those who know are always free, by realisation of their own true nature, hence they do not expect rice-balls to be given.

Therefore rice-balls and water should not be offered to them, but one should perform the annual S'raddha at the sacred waters, and S'raddha at Gaya, with devotion to the forefathers.

The Hansa, Paramahansa, Kutichaka, Bahudaka; these are Sannyasins, O Tarksya, and when dead, they must be buried in the ground.

If the Ganges, or other, is not available, it is declared that they should be buried in the ground. Where great rivers exist, they should be thrown into them.

Footnotes

^83:1 A certain sacrifice.

^84:1 His son's wife--the wife of the son performing the rite.

^85:1 The fire-deva.

^86:1 A certain astrological position; 5 days in each month.

^86:2 The fifth Naksatra.

^87:87-34

^87:87-35

^88:88-41

^88:88-42

^88:88-46

^89:89-48

^89:89-53

^90:1 An opening at the top of the head.

^90:2 The funeral pyre is lighted from the sacred household fire.

^91:1 Of the bones.

^92:1 A finger-ring of kusha grass, put on the third finger of right hand.

^93:1 A great king who is said to have brought down the Ganges from heaven to earth.

^93:2 There is a legend to the effect that the 80,000 sons of Sagara were reduced to ashes by Visnu, and that they, the ancestors of Bhrigu, were released and purified by him in the Ganges.

^96:1 Visnu.

^96:2 These names are given to advanced stages of human development.