दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 100
पृथगन्नैः पृथग्वित्तैर्मनुजैर्यदुपार्जितम् । सर्वं तत् पितृसंक्रान्तं तदा स्वोपार्जितं कुतः ॥ १०० ॥
pṛthagannaiḥ pṛthagvittairmanujairyadupārjitam | sarvaṁ tat pitṛsaṁkrāntaṁ tadā svōpārjitaṁ kutaḥ || 100 ||
Translation
If all that men earn, even eating apart and holding their wealth apart, passes to them from the father, how then is anything self-earned?
Word by word
- pṛthag
- (pṛthak) apart
- annaiḥ
- (annaiḥ) eating
- vittaiḥ
- (vittaiḥ) with wealth
- manujaiḥ
- (manujaiḥ) by men
- yat
- what
- upārjitam
- (upārjitam) is earned
- sarvaṁ
- all
- tat
- that
- pitṛ
- from the father
- saṁkrāntaṁ
- passed
- tadā
- then
- sva
- self
- upārjitaṁ
- earned
- kutaḥ
- (kutaḥ) how
Meaning
The argument would leave no self-earned property at all, even for brothers long separated in food and goods.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Pṛthagannaiḥ". So whatever is earned by men who eat apart (pṛthag-anna, with separate meals) and hold separate property, with divided wealth, all of it would have passed from the father, be bound to the father; how then could wealth be self-earned? The self-earned character of wealth would not be established: that is the sense.