दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 119
स्थाप्यानां बद्धवित्तानां ज्ञानान्नष्टेऽप्ययत्नतः । तन्मूल्यं दापयेत्तेन स्वामिने सर्वथा नृपः ॥ ११९ ॥
sthāpyānāṁ baddhavittānāṁ jñānānnaṣṭē’pyayatnataḥ | tanmūlyaṁ dāpayēttēna svāminē sarvathā nṛpaḥ || 119 ||
Translation
If deposits and pledged goods are lost through knowing carelessness, the king should by all means make that man pay their value to the owner.
Word by word
- sthāpyānāṁ
- of deposits
- baddha
- pledged
- vittānāṁ
- of goods
- jñānāt
- (jñānāt) knowingly
- naṣṭē
- lost
- api
- even
- ayatnataḥ
- (ayatnataḥ) through carelessness
- tat
- their
- mūlyaṁ
- value
- dāpayēt
- should make pay
- tēna
- by him
- svāminē
- to the owner
- sarvathā
- by all means
- nṛpaḥ
- (nṛpaḥ) the king
Meaning
A keeper who knowingly neglects goods in his care must make good the loss; the commentary adds that if they are lost despite proper care, he does not.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
If goods deposited and pledged in a man's house are lost through his knowing carelessness, the king should make that man pay their value to the owner: this he tells with "sthāpyānām" and the rest. When deposits (sthāpya), goods left in trust, and pledged goods (baddha-vitta) are lost, have perished, through knowing negligence, through carelessness done knowingly, the goods placed and pledged in his house having been lost, the king should by every means make that man pay their value, the value of the goods placed and pledged, to the owner, the master of those goods. By saying "lost through knowing carelessness" Sadāśiva indicates that if they are lost somehow in spite of care taken to guard them, the king should not make him pay their value.