दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 113
करहीनाऽप्रतिहता वन्यारण्यातिदुर्गमा । अनादिष्टोऽपि तां भूमिं सम्पन्नां कर्तुमर्हति ॥ ११३ ॥
karahīnā’pratihatā vanyāraṇyātidurgamā | anādiṣṭō’pi tāṁ bhūmiṁ sampannāṁ kartumarhati || 113 ||
Translation
Land untaxed and untilled, risen from the water or in the forest and hard to reach, a man may bring into use even without leave.
Word by word
- kara
- tax
- hīnā
- without
- apratihatā
- untilled
- vanyā
- risen from water
- āraṇyā
- in the forest
- ati
- very
- durgamā
- hard to reach
- anādiṣṭaḥ
- (anādiṣṭaḥ) without leave
- api
- even
- tāṁ
- that
- bhūmiṁ
- land
- sampannāṁ
- productive
- kartum
- (kartum) to make
- arhati
- may
Meaning
The commentary reads vanyā as land risen from water (vana is a word for water) and āraṇyā as forest land; Avalon glosses the first as new alluvial land. Such waste is open to whoever reclaims it.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Land that is waste, untaxed, sprung from water or from forest, may be brought into use by a man even without the king's leave: this he tells with "karahīnā" and the rest. Land that is vanyā, sprung from water, and āraṇyā, sprung from forest, very hard to reach, and so unbroken (apratihatā), waste, and so without tax (karahīnā), without the share the king takes: that land a man may bring into use, make productive with crops and the like, even without being told, even without the king's command. Vanyā is what arises in water (vana); the suffix yat is by "digādibhyo yat"; "payas, kīlāla, amṛta, jīvana, bhuvana, vana (water)," says the lexicon. Āraṇyā is what arises in the forest, the suffix ṇa by "araṇyāṇ ṇaḥ".