दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 27
मृते पत्यौ स्वधर्मेण पतिबन्धुवशे स्थिता । तदभावे पितृबन्धोस्तिष्ठन्ती दायमर्हति ॥ २७ ॥
mṛtē patyau svadharmēṇa patibandhuvaśē sthitā | tadabhāvē pitṛbandhōstiṣṭhantī dāyamarhati || 27 ||
Translation
When her husband has died, the woman who keeps her own dharma and lives under the care of her husband's kin, or failing them of her father's kin, is entitled to the inheritance.
Word by word
- mṛtē
- having died
- patyau
- the husband
- sva
- her own
- dharmēṇa
- by dharma
- pati
- of the husband
- bandhu
- kin
- vaśē
- under the care
- sthitā
- living
- tat
- of them
- abhāvē
- failing
- pitṛ
- of her father
- bandhōḥ
- (bandhoḥ) kin
- tiṣṭhantī
- living
- dāyam
- (dāyam) the inheritance
- arhati
- is entitled to
Meaning
The widow's right rests on her keeping her dharma and living within a family, her husband's or else her father's.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
On the husband's death a woman who stays under the control of her husband's kin and the rest, keeping her own dharma, is entitled to her lord's inheritance: this he tells with "mṛte" and the rest. When the husband, the lord, has died, a woman who stays under the control of the husband's kin, keeping her own dharma, and, failing them, in the absence of the husband's kin, staying under the control of her father's kin, is entitled to the inheritance, the husband's wealth.