History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.22

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¹²⁸⁵ Vide *Ganga Sahai v. Lekhraj* 9 All. 253 (at p. 306 the translations of the Kālikāpurāṇa verses by Sutherland and Colebrooke are quoted and at p. 318 the authenticity of those verses is held to be extremely doubtful); *Raja Mukund v. Jagannath* 2 Patna 469, 477 (where the passage of the Kālikāpurāṇa is quoted), in which it was held that a boy may be adopted till upanayana and that it does not matter if the cūḍā ceremony is performed in the family of birth and the putreṣṭi is omitted at the time of adoption; *Chandreshwar v. Bisheshwar* 5 Patna 777 at p. 844 (where the passage as to five years was held not binding); vide *Surabala Devi v. Sudhirkumar* AIR (1944) Cal. 265.