anyapūrvā

or has had intercourse with, another man than the one to

whom she is married; this may be the case if she is either

a punarbhū or a svairiṇī; as a punarbhū (q. v.) again, she had either

ceased to be a virgin before the nuptial ceremonies, or she

had remained a virgin and become blemished through the

repeated celebration of the marriage ceremonies; she is

svairiṇī or licentious, if she leaves her husband and goes,

out of lust, to a man of the same caste. A woman, how-

ever, is not considered to be a punarbhū, if she is left without

a son and, by order of her Guru, is approached, for the

sake of getting a son, by her brother-in-law, or a relative

of the class of the Sapiṇḍas or a man of the same Gotra,

either of them having been previously anointed with clari-

fied butter. (According to the Mitākṣara as founded on

Yājnavalkya; Manu applies the term parapūrvā, the same as

anyapūrvā, only to the licentious woman who leaves her hus-

band for another man; Nārada uses the synonymous term

parapūrvā in a similar manner as the Mitākṣara anyapūrvā, but

divides the punarbhū into three and the svairiṇī into four cate-

gories; for according to him a punarbhū may be either a virgin-

woman who is blemished by having gone through the mar-

riage ceremonies for a second time, or a woman who first

has been given to one and then on account of her love, to

another, or a woman who, in want of a brother-in-law,

is given by her relations to a Sapiṇḍa-relative of the same

caste; a svairiṇī a woman, whether having had children or

not, who, while her husband is alive, goes to another from

lust, or a woman who leaves her infant husband for another

man and later returns to the house of her husband; or a

woman who after the death of her husband slights her brother-

in-law and the other relations (she may approach) and goes

from lust to another man, or lastly, a woman who has come

from the country and, purchased with money, under the

pressure of hunger and thirst gives herself up to another

man. E. anya and pūrva; scil. strī.

— Vgl. ananyapūrvā .