दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 125
नैकपुत्रः सुतं दद्यान्नैकस्त्रीकस्तथा स्त्रियम् । नैककन्यः सुतां शैवोद्वाहे पितृहितः पुमान् ॥ १२५ ॥
naikaputraḥ sutaṁ dadyānnaikastrīkastathā striyam | naikakanyaḥ sutāṁ śaivōdvāhē pitṛhitaḥ pumān || 125 ||
Translation
A man devoted to his ancestors who has only one son should not give him away, nor his only wife, nor his only daughter in a śaiva marriage.
Word by word
- na
- not
- ēka
- one
- putraḥ
- (putraḥ) son
- sutaṁ
- the son
- dadyāt
- should give
- strīkaḥ
- (strīkaḥ) wife
- tathā
- nor
- striyam
- (striyam) the wife
- kanyaḥ
- (kanyaḥ) daughter
- sutāṁ
- the daughter
- śaiva
- śaiva
- udvāhē
- in marriage
- pitṛ
- to the ancestors
- hitaḥ
- (hitaḥ) devoted
- pumān
- a man
Meaning
The one son must carry on the ancestral rites; the commentary gives that as the reason for all three.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
A man with one son, one wife or one daughter, a man devoted to his ancestors, should not give away the son, the wife, or the daughter in a śaiva marriage: this he tells with "naikaputraḥ" and the rest. A man with only one son should not give his son to anyone; likewise a man with only one wife should not give away his wife; and a man with only one daughter should not give his daughter, his girl, in a śaiva marriage. Showing the reason for not giving the son and the rest, he describes the man: what kind of man? Pitṛhita, devoted to the good of his ancestors; since he works for the good of the forefathers, he should not give them: that is the sense.