दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 32
तथा पितामहे सत्त्वे वित्तं मातृगतं शिवे । तस्यां मृतायां पुत्रेण भर्त्रा श्वशुरगम्भवेत् ॥ ३२ ॥
tathā pitāmahē sattvē vittaṁ mātṛgataṁ śivē | tasyāṁ mṛtāyāṁ putrēṇa bhartrā śvaśuragambhavēt || 32 ||
Translation
So too, O Śivā, while the grandfather is alive, wealth that went to a mother, on her death, goes through her son and her husband to her father-in-law.
Word by word
- tathā
- so too
- pitāmahē
- the grandfather
- sattvē
- being alive
- vittaṁ
- wealth
- mātṛ
- a mother
- gataṁ
- gone to
- śivē
- O Śivā
- tasyāṁ
- she
- mṛtāyāṁ
- having died
- putrēṇa
- through the son
- bhartrā
- through the husband
- śvaśura
- to the father-in-law
- gam
- (gam) going
- bhavēt
- becomes
Meaning
A mother who inherited from her son holds that wealth for life; at her death it traces back through the son and through her husband and comes to her husband's father, the dead man's grandfather. The commentary limits this to the case where the son had no brothers or brothers' sons living.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
But when a mother who had received her son's wealth dies, who shares that wealth? To that he says "tathā" and the rest. O Śivā, in the same way, when the grandfather is living (sattva, being present), the wealth that went to the mother, received by the mother, on that mother's death goes, through her own son and her husband, to the father-in-law: it should go to the father-in-law, that is the sense. "Sattva" is the same as "sat" with a suffix in its own sense. This is to be understood when the son's brothers of the same womb and their sons are not living.