- Marici
The name Marici is very ancient. In Manusmṛti II. 34-35 Marici is mentioned first among the ten Prajāpatis.
This sage is relied upon as an authority by the Mit., Aparārka, Smrticandrika on Ahnika, Asauca, Sraddha, Prāyascitta and Vyavahāra. Aparārka quotes several verses on
है आपके
813 मातामहस्य गोत्रेण मातुः पिण्डोदकक्रियाम् । कुर्वीत पुत्रिकापुत्र एवमाह
प्रजापतिः ॥ अपरार्क. 814 साक्षी विभेदो विज्ञेयः कृत एकोऽपरोऽकृतः । लेख्यारूढः कृतो ज्ञेयः मुक्तकोऽ.
कृत उच्यते । अपरार्क p. 666, स्मृतिच० (व्य. p. 80 reads उत्तरोऽकृत०). 815 स्मृतिच० (व्य. p. 42-43 ), परा. मा. vol. III, p. 69-73. 618 पूर्व प्रमीताग्निहोत्रं मृते भर्तरि तद्धनम् । लभेत् पतिव्रता नारी धर्म एष
सनातनः ॥ 817 जगन्मं स्थावरं हेम कुप्यं धान्यरसाम्बरम्। आदाय दापयेच्छ्राद्धं माससंवत्सरादिकम् ।
पितृव्यगुरूदौहित्रान् भर्तृस्वस्नीयमातुलान् । पूजयेत्कव्यपूर्ताभ्यां वृद्धानाथातिथी स्तथा ।। स्मृतिच० (p. 291), परा. मा. vol, III. p. 536,
।
522
turpana, one of which speaks of Sunday.618 Marici disallows bathing in the rivers in the months of Srāvana and Bhādra pada.618 Marici made a very near approach to the modern conceptions underlying the Transfer of Property Act. Com pleteness is not attained without writing in the transactions of Aale, mortgage, partition and gift of immoveable property. 820 If a buyer purchases a chattel before a row of merchants and to the knowledge of the king’s officers and in broad daylight, he is free from blame and gets back his money (if the thing turns out to be another’s property ), while if the price (paid by a buyer for a chattel) cannot be recovered (from the veodor who sells without title) owing to the vendor’s address being not known, the loss should be apportioned between the buyer and the original owner of the chattel.081 Marici divides adhi into four varieties bhogya, gopya, pratyaya, ājñādbi.
Prose passage of Marīci is ‘Kanyānām prāk-cūļākaraḥāt sadyaḥ saucam | Prāgdānād-ekāhaḥ | Dattānām prāk-pariṇa yanāt-tryaham | Aparārka p. 938.
It is to be noted that Aparārka ( p. 908 ) quotes a prose passage of Marici on āśauca.