Manava Dharmashastra 2.29.5

2.29.5

ya evādravyaḥ so'pi dravyavānbhavati | ciramadhane| bhūtvā bhavatyahnā mahādhanaḥ | īdṛśasyaiva ṣaṇḍhasya vadhe palālabhārakaśuddhiḥ | sa hyasaṃskṛto'nupanītaḥ śāntyai na kasyacittiṣṭhati | ataḥ sthitaṃ puṃsāmevaite saṃskārā ebhirvidhīyante | vidhyantareṇa strīṇāmamantrakāḥ | napuṃsakasya naiva santīti |

From all this it follows that the present text prescribes the sacraments for males only,—the later Verse (66) prescribes them for females as to be done ‘without mantras,’—and for eunuchs there are no sacraments at all.—(29)

As for the ‘marriage of sexless persons’;—‘sexless’ persons are of various kinds—e.g., (a) those whose semen is ‘airy,’ (Impotent), (b) those who have the signs of both sexes (Hermaphrodite), and (c) those whose organs are inactive. All these people cannot be excluded from all the ‘sacraments’; because, in the first place their impotence, etc., cannot be detected at the time (during infancy) when the ‘Jātakarma’ and the other (earlier) sacraments are performed; and secondly (even when detected) the said impotence, etc., may be such as might be cured, and certainly a characteristic that is not of a permanent character can never serve as a disqualification. For instance, absence of wealth; this is not a permanent characteristic, like the caste of a person; for the man who has no wealth comes to acquire wealth; having remained poor for a long time, a man becomes very rich in a single day. It is on the killing of such a (confirmed and permanent) eunuch that one becomes purified (of the sin) by the giving of a load of dry grass; and the reason for this lies in the fact that he has had no ‘sacraments,’ he has not been ‘initiated,’ and his life is of no use to any person.