दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 126
दैवे पित्र्ये च वाणिज्ये राजद्वारे विशेषतः । यद्विदध्यात् प्रतिनिधिस्तन्नियन्तुः कृतिर्भवेत् ॥ १२६ ॥
daivē pitryē ca vāṇijyē rājadvārē viśēṣataḥ | yadvidadhyāt pratinidhistanniyantuḥ kṛtirbhavēt || 126 ||
Translation
In rites for the gods and the ancestors, in trade and above all at the king's court, what a representative does is the act of the one who directs him.
Word by word
- daivē
- for the gods
- pitryē
- for the ancestors
- ca
- and
- vāṇijyē
- in trade
- rāja
- the king's
- dvārē
- at the court
- viśēṣataḥ
- (viśeṣataḥ) above all
- yat
- what
- vidadhyāt
- does
- pratinidhiḥ
- (pratinidhiḥ) a representative
- tat
- that
- niyantuḥ
- (niyantuḥ) of the director
- kṛtiḥ
- (kṛtiḥ) the act
- bhavēt
- is
Meaning
The principle of agency.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Whatever rite of the gods and the rest is done by a representative is done by the man himself: this he tells with "daive" and the rest. In a rite for the gods, a rite for the ancestors, and in trade, and above all at the king's court, whatever a representative (pratinidhi) does is the act (kṛti) of the one who directs him, the one who sets him to work. In "daive pitrye vāṇijye" the locative is of specification; kṛti is what is done, the suffix ktin in the sense of the object by "striyāṁ ktin".