Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.613

c7.613

which has to be atoned for by a sacrifice, taking it for granted that the case of the re-married widow has been included in it. In the Smṛtis the remarriage of widows has been considered only in connection with the five cases of necessity (āpad) in any one of which a woman may marry another man, namely, if her husband has disappeared or is dead, if he has joined an order of monks or is impotent or is excommunicated out of his caste (Nār. 12, 97; Par. 4, 28),—a passage which is often turned to account by modern defenders of widow marriage in India and which is used even in a Jaina work of 1014 A. D. 1