दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 101
अतो महेशि स्वायासैर्येन यद्धनमर्जितम् । स्वोपार्जितं तदेव स्यात् स तत्स्वामी न चापरः ॥ १०१ ॥
atō mahēśi svāyāsairyēna yaddhanamarjitam | svōpārjitaṁ tadēva syāt sa tatsvāmī na cāparaḥ || 101 ||
Translation
Therefore, O Maheśī, whatever wealth a man has gained by his own labour, that alone is self-earned; he is its owner, and no one else.
Word by word
- ataḥ
- (ataḥ) therefore
- mahēśi
- O Maheśī
- sva
- his own
- āyāsaiḥ
- (āyāsaiḥ) by labours
- yēna
- by whom
- yat
- what
- dhanam
- (dhanam) wealth
- arjitam
- (arjitam) gained
- upārjitaṁ
- earned
- tat
- that
- ēva
- alone
- syāt
- is
- saḥ
- he
- svāmī
- owner
- na
- not
- ca
- and
- aparaḥ
- (aparaḥ) another
Meaning
The answer: property is self-earned when won by one's own exertion, and then the earner alone owns it.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Ataḥ". O Maheśī, for this reason the wealth that a man has earned by his own exertions (svāyāsa, his own toil), whether eating apart or not eating apart, that wealth alone is self-earned. He, the earner, is its owner, the master of the self-earned wealth, and no other, no one but the earner, is its owner.