[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v2.c27.25 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c27.25 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c27.25 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c27.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c27.25) In certain cases marrying or kindling sacred fires before an elder brother is not condemned. Medhātithi on Manu III. 171 quotes a verse 'One need not wait where the elder brother is a lunatic, or is a sinner, or leprous, impotent, or suffering from tuberculosis' and remarks that this is only illustrative (i. e. one need not wait where the elder brother has no adhikāra for marriage or for kindling fires)¹²⁶⁸. Vide Atri v. 105 (Ānan. ed.) for a similar verse. Another verse of Atri (v. 106) says that there is no blemish in marrying before the elder brother, if the latter is impotent or gone abroad, or \*patita\* or has become a recluse or is devoted to Yogaśāstra¹²⁶⁹. \*Vide\* Gobhila smṛti (I. 72-74) for similar verses (which are quoted by the Gṛ. R. p. 90), Trikāṇḍamaṇḍana I. 68-74, Smṛtyarthasāra p. 13 and Saṁ. Pr. pp. 760-766. - [Previous: v2.c27.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c27.24) - [Next: v2.c27.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c27.26) - [Up: v2.c27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c27) ## Cites (4) - [Karmapradīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.misc.parisista.samaveda.karmapradipa) — Kātyāyana (Vājasaneyi sūtrakāra), Sanskrit - [Atrismṛti (Atrisaṃhitā)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.atri-works.atri) — Atri, Sanskrit - [Trikāṇḍamaṇḍana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.apastamba-school.sarva-karika.trikandamandana.1.68) — Bhāskaramiśrasomayājin, Sanskrit - [Smṛtyarthasāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.smrtisamgraha.smrtyarthasara) — Śrīdhara (Smṛtyarthasāra), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c27.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c27.25) · Pramāṇa