दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 102
मातरं पितरं देवि गुरुं चैव पितामहान् । मातामहान् करेणापि प्रहरन्नैव दायभाक् ॥ १०२ ॥
mātaraṁ pitaraṁ dēvi guruṁ caiva pitāmahān | mātāmahān karēṇāpi praharannaiva dāyabhāk || 102 ||
Translation
He who strikes his mother, his father, O Devī, his guru, his grandfathers or his mother's fathers, even with his hand, has no share in the inheritance.
Word by word
- mātaraṁ
- his mother
- pitaraṁ
- his father
- dēvi
- O Devī
- guruṁ
- his guru
- ca
- and
- ēva
- also
- pitāmahān
- his grandfathers
- mātāmahān
- his mother's fathers
- karēṇa
- with the hand
- api
- even
- praharan
- striking
- na
- not
- dāya
- of the inheritance
- bhāk
- a sharer
Meaning
The guru here, the commentary says, is the one who gave him the mantra. If a blow of the hand bars him, a blow with a stick bars him all the more.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
A man who strikes his mother and the rest even with his hand has no share in the inheritance: this he tells with "mātaram" and the rest. O Devī, a man who strikes his mother, the woman who bore him, his father, who begot him, his guru, who taught him the mantra, his grandfathers, the plural standing for many, the grandfather and the rest, and his mother's fathers, the maternal grandfather and the rest, even with his hand, does not share in the inheritance. By "even" it is shown that one who strikes his mother and the rest with a stick or the like has all the more no share.