Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.738

c7.738

the permission of the relations; as a rule at least the permission of the relations is necessary particularly in the case of the succession of great landlords and princes¹. Even most of the commentators have developed out of the Smṛtis the principle, of course in conformity with the spirit of these Smṛtis, that the widow too can adopt, but there is difference of opinion among them as to whether she can do it even without the order of the deceased husband; the Mayūkha², for example, represents this view.