दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 105
सस्वामिकं प्राप्तधनं पथि वा यत्र कुत्रचित् । नृपस्तत्स्वामिने प्राप्त्रा दापयेत् सुविचारयन् ॥ १०५ ॥
sasvāmikaṁ prāptadhanaṁ pathi vā yatra kutracit | nṛpastatsvāminē prāptrā dāpayēt suvicārayan || 105 ||
Translation
Wealth that has an owner, found on the road or anywhere, the king, after careful inquiry, should have the finder give back to its owner.
Word by word
- sasvāmikaṁ
- having an owner
- prāpta
- found
- dhanaṁ
- wealth
- pathi
- on the road
- vā
- or
- yatra
- where
- kutracit
- anywhere
- nṛpaḥ
- (nṛpaḥ) the king
- tat
- its
- svāminē
- to the owner
- prāptrā
- by the finder
- dāpayēt
- should have given
- suvicārayan
- inquiring carefully
Meaning
Finding is not keeping.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
But does property with an owner, found on the road and the like, go to the finder or to its own owner? To that he says "sasvāmikam" and the rest. Property that has an owner, found on the road or anywhere at all, the king, after careful inquiry (suvicārayan), should have given back by the finder to its owner, the master of the wealth that was found.