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9.61. Some (sages), versed in the law, considering the purpose of the appointment not to have been attained by
those two (on the birth of the first), think that a second (son) may be lawfully procreated on (such) women.
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9.62. But when the purpose of the appointment to (cohabit with) the widow bas been attained in accordance
with the law, those two shall behave towards each other like a father and a daughter-in-law.
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9.63. If those two (being thus) appointed deviate from the rule and act from carnal desire, they will both become
outcasts, (as men) who defile the bed of a daughter-in-law or of a Guru.
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9.64. By twice-born men a widow must not be appointed to (cohabit with) any other (than her husband); for
they who appoint (her) to another (man), will violate the eternal law.
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9.65. In the sacred texts which refer to marriage the appointment (of widows) is nowhere mentioned, nor is the
re-marriage of widows prescribed in the rules concerning marriage.
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9.66. This practice which is reprehended by the learned of the twice-born castes as fit for cattle is said (to have
occurred) even among men, while Vena ruled.
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9.67. That chief of royal sages who formerly possessed the whole world, caused a confusion of the castes
(varna), his intellect being destroyed by lust.
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9.68. Since that (time) the virtuous censure that (man) who in his folly appoints a woman, whose husband died,
to (bear) children (to another man).
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9.69. If the (future) husband of a maiden dies after troth verbally plighted, her brother-in-law shall wed her
according to the following rule.
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9.70. Having, according to the rule, espoused her (who must be) clad in white garments and be intent on purity,
he shall approach her once in each proper season until issue (be had).
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