History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c99.12

v7.c99.12

Adhikāra and Adhikārin (qualifications or title of a person to do a certain act): (vide pratinidhi): Adhikārīn 1318; everyone belonging to the three upper classes has a right to perform Vedic sacrifices 1318; many rules of PMS (Chap. VI) deal with *pratinidhi* (*substitute*) 1319-20; one who has incurable defect (such as blindness from birth) has no right to perform Yāga but one who has some curable bodily defect would have the right when the defect is removed 1718; sixth chap. (with eight *pādas*) of P. M. Sūtra deals with various aspects of the question of A, 1317-1321; when a Vedic text provides 'one desirous of securing heaven should offer a Yāga,' heaven is made the principal factor, *Yāga* becomes subsidiary matter and the qualification (adhikāra) of the performer is laid down by the word *Svargakāma*, 1317.