दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 33
मृतस्योर्ध्वगतं वित्तं यथा प्राप्नोति तत्पिता । जनन्यपि तथाऽऽप्नोति पतिहीना भवेद्यदि ॥ ३३ ॥
mṛtasyōrdhvagataṁ vittaṁ yathā prāpnōti tatpitā | jananyapi tathā’’pnōti patihīnā bhavēdyadi || 33 ||
Translation
As the father receives the wealth of the dead man that has gone upward, so the mother too receives it, if she is a widow.
Word by word
- mṛtasya
- of the dead man
- ūrdhva
- upward
- gataṁ
- gone
- vittaṁ
- the wealth
- yathā
- as
- prāpnōti
- receives
- tat
- his
- pitā
- father
- jananī
- the mother
- api
- too
- tathā
- so
- āpnōti
- receives
- pati
- of a husband
- hīnā
- bereft
- bhavēt
- is
- yadi
- if
Meaning
When property rises from a son who left no heirs below him, it goes to his father; if the father is dead, his widowed mother takes it.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Of a man who has gone to the five elements without anyone from son to father, the mother too takes his wealth, and on her death his stepmother: this he tells in two verses, "mṛtasya" and the next. As the father of the dead man receives the wealth of the dead man that has gone upward, so likewise, if she is without a husband, without her lord, his mother too receives it.