Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.713

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³ Census of India, 1891, 19, 222 f. There is a kind of niyoga in Spiti; there Buddhist monks raise a son and heir for a deceased brother without male issue (Tupper 2, 189 f., cf. Kohler ZVR 7, 209); but it is probably a Tibetan custom.

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