[Footnote 170: The Commentator divides written instruments into, 1. public or given by authority, and, 2. private, or those which the community use among themselves, and to which the rules in the text apply. These again are either, autograph, _i. e._ wholly written by the party who speaks by the document--or, written by another for him. The last description, he says, require to be attested, and their effect as proof depends upon local usage. He quotes Nárada as to the private writings. For the instruments emanating from authority, he refers to sl. 317, 318, 319 of Yájnavalkya's first Book, _viz._ "When the monarch bestows lands or creates a charge in favor of any one, he shall, for information of future good monarchs, put it in writing, either on cloth or copper, setting his seal thereto. He shall inscribe the names of his ancestors and his own [also the donee's (_M._)], the extent of the gift, its description by boundaries, also the date; all this shall be authenticated under his hand." ] [Footnote 171: This word in the 94th sloka we have rendered 'discharge.' Its ordinary and literal sense is 'purification.'] [Footnote 172: _scil._ ordeals. (_M._)] [Footnote 173: the ocean god.] [Footnote 174: the inferior Brahmá, the immediate cause or creator of the universe.] [Footnote 175: It is only of self-acquired property that unequal partition can be made. Of that which is inherited or ancestral, there is co-ownership: it cannot therefore be apportioned at the father's pleasure. (_M._) Infra sl. 121.] [Footnote 176: Jagannát'ha, in his Digest, quotes the Dipakaliká and other authorities interpreting this injunction to refer to such wives only as have not male issue. (Colebrooke, vol. 3, p. 97.)] [Footnote 177: Something, however valueless; in order that the heirs of the separated son may have no claim to a share of the family inheritance, (_M._) Manu, ch. 9, sl. 207.] [Footnote 178: For instance, if one son have a large family, or be disqualified to earn a livelihood, the father may give him a portion larger than the others. But an unequal partition from angry impulse, or weak-mindedness, has no validity. (_M._)]