History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c71.s1.42

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²⁴ अभिनिम्रुक्ताभ्युदित-कुनखिश्यावदग्राग्रेदिधिषू-दिधिषूपतिपर्याहितपरीष्ट-परिवित्त-परिविवि-परिविविदानेषु चोत्तरोत्तरस्मिन्नशुचिकरानिर्वेषो गरीयान् गरीयान् । आप II 5. 12 22. It may be noted that both brothers (elder and younger) and sisters (elder and younger) were held guilty of sin in case of supercession in marriage. परिवित्त and परिविविक्त often mean the same thing (viz. an elder brother before whom a younger brother marries or consecrates sacrificial fires) Vide Manu III. 171-172. Acc. to Manu III. 173 a didhīṣūpati is one who feels love for his brother's widow and has intercourse with her under the system of *niyoga*. परिविविदान is the same as परिवेत्ता अग्रेदिधिषु or-षू is explained by Devala and by Aparārka p.451, by Haradatta on Gaut. 15.15 and Mit. on Yāj. III. 26 as 'a younger sister who marries before her elder sister' and दिधिषु or दिधिषू is the elder sister who is thus superceded by a younger one In Āp the word पति is to be connected with both अग्रेदिधिषू and दिधिषू. The Amarakośa explains दिधिषू differently. शङ्खस्मृति (17. 43-44) makes even the father or other guardian for marriage getting a younger son or daughter married before an elder one and the priest officiating at such a marriage equally guilty 'परिवित्तिः परिवेत्ता यया च परिविद्यते । व्रतं संवत्सरं कुर्य्युर्दातृयाजकपञ्चमाः ॥.