Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.328

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² According to Parāçara, iv, 25 the younger may marry without regard to the elder, if the latter is hunchbacked, a dwarf, impotent, weak-witted, gadgada (a stutterer ?), blind, deaf, or dumb from birth. Those mentioned here and in our Mahābhārata passage, together with some other afflicted ones, are not entitled either to inherit or to have law dealings. They may, indeed, marry, at least as a general rule, and their offspring can inherit, if this offspring have no defects. See Manu, ix, 201-203, and the parallels given by Bühler in his transl. (according to Viṣṇu, xv, 35 ff., the exceptions are the offspring