Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c11.1

c11.1

§ 54. *The Brahman student and the house-holder.* Of the three chief parts into which the Dharma is divided according to Y. and the later authors,—custom, law and penance, now custom (*ācāra*) only remains to be reviewed. As however important points of the laws of custom have been already described above, particularly in connection with the laws of marriage and family, and as the law of castes and classes is to be dealt with in the State Antiquities¹ and as the Śrauta and Gṛhyasūtras, particularly important for the history of customs, and the Private Antiquities², shall be separately dealt with in this encyclopaedia, I may therefore confine myself here only to a few remarks about the Āśramas and Saṃskāras, the “five great sacrifices”, and the sacrifices to the manes and the rules about funeral ceremonies, purificarion and diet.