दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 31
एवं स्थितायां कन्यायां रिक्थं पुत्रवधूगतम् । तन्मृतौ स्वामिनं प्राप्य श्वशुरात्तत्सुतामियात् ॥ ३१ ॥
ēvaṁ sthitāyāṁ kanyāyāṁ rikthaṁ putravadhūgatam | tanmṛtau svāminaṁ prāpya śvaśurāttatsutāmiyāt || 31 ||
Translation
In the same way, while the daughter is alive, property that went to a son's wife, on her death, comes to her husband and passes from her father-in-law to his daughter.
Word by word
- ēvaṁ
- in the same way
- sthitāyāṁ
- being alive
- kanyāyāṁ
- the daughter
- rikthaṁ
- property
- putra
- of the son
- vadhū
- the wife
- gatam
- (gatam) gone to
- tat
- her; his
- mṛtau
- at the death
- svāminaṁ
- to her husband
- prāpya
- having come
- śvaśurāt
- (śvaśurāt) from the father-in-law
- sutām
- (sutām) daughter
- iyāt
- passes to
Meaning
The widow of a son held his share; at her death it returns through the dead son to his father, and from the father it descends to the father's daughter, the dead son's sister. The commentary adds that this holds when there is no one closer, from the husband's daughter down to a brother's son.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
When a woman who has taken her husband's property dies, that property, having gone to her husband and then to her father-in-law, goes to her father-in-law's daughter: this he tells with "evam" and the rest. In this way, while the daughter is living, the property, the wealth, that went to the son's wife, on her death goes to her lord, her husband, then to her father-in-law, and from the father-in-law to his daughter. In "tanmṛtau" the suffix kta is in the sense of the bare action, by the sūtra "napuṁsake bhāve ktaḥ". This is to be understood when there is no one from the husband's daughter to the brother's son.