दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 112
क्रेता तत्र गृहारामान् विनिर्माति भनक्ति वा । मूल्यं दत्त्वापि नाप्नोति स्थावरं सन्निधिस्थितः ॥ ११२ ॥
krētā tatra gṛhārāmān vinirmāti bhanakti vā | mūlyaṁ dattvāpi nāpnōti sthāvaraṁ sannidhisthitaḥ || 112 ||
Translation
If the buyer has built houses or gardens there, or pulled them down, the neighbour does not get the property even by paying the price.
Word by word
- krētā
- the buyer
- tatra
- there
- gṛha
- houses
- ārāmān
- and gardens
- vinirmāti
- builds
- bhanakti
- pulls down
- vā
- or
- mūlyaṁ
- the price
- dattvā
- paying
- api
- even
- na
- not
- āpnōti
- gets
- sthāvaraṁ
- the property
- sannidhi
- near
- sthitaḥ
- (sthitaḥ) the one living
Meaning
Once the buyer has changed the property, the right of pre-emption is gone.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Immovable property that has been bought, on which the buyer has built a house or garden or pulled one down, the neighbour may not get even by paying its price: this he tells with "kretā" and the rest. If the buyer, on the immovable property he has bought, builds houses and gardens (ārāma), houses and groves, or pulls down, breaks up, those already built there, then the person living near, even paying the price, does not get, does not obtain, the immovable property.