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39. But better than that is the other also on account of an inferential mark.
Better than to be outside the �sramas is the condition of standing within an �srama. The latter state may be due to misfortune; but he who can should be within an �srama, which state is the more holy and beneficial one. This follows from inference only, i.e. Smriti; for Smriti says, 'A Br�hmana is to remain outside the �sramas not even for one day.' For one who has passed beyond the stage of Brahmakarya, or whose wife has died, the impossibility to procure a wife constitutes the misfortune (which prevents him from belonging to an �srama).--Here terminates the adhikarana of 'widowers.'
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