दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 3
व्यतिघ्नन्ति तदा देवि स्वार्थिनो वित्तहेतवे । पापाश्रया भविष्यन्ति हिंसया च जिहीर्षया ॥ ३ ॥
vyatighnanti tadā dēvi svārthinō vittahētavē | pāpāśrayā bhaviṣyanti hiṁsayā ca jihīrṣayā || 3 ||
Translation
Then, O Devī, seeking their own gain, they will kill one another for wealth, and through violence and the wish to seize what is not theirs they will fall into sin.
Word by word
- vyatighnanti
- they kill one another
- tadā
- then
- dēvi
- O Devī
- svārthinaḥ
- (svārthinaḥ) seeking their own gain
- vitta
- wealth
- hētavē
- for the sake of
- pāpa
- of sin
- āśrayāḥ
- (āśrayāḥ) the abode
- bhaviṣyanti
- they will become
- hiṁsayā
- through violence
- ca
- and
- jihīrṣayā
- through the wish to seize
Meaning
The commentary glosses jihīrṣā as "the wish to carry off another's wealth". The present tense "they kill" stands, it notes, for the future: this is what would happen without law.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 2.