दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 34
अतः सत्यां जनन्यां तु विमाता न धनं हरेत् । मृतौ जनन्यास्तं प्राप्य पित्रा गच्छेद्विमातरम् ॥ ३४ ॥
ataḥ satyāṁ jananyāṁ tu vimātā na dhanaṁ harēt | mṛtau jananyāstaṁ prāpya pitrā gacchēdvimātaram || 34 ||
Translation
So while his mother is alive, a stepmother does not take the wealth; on the mother's death it returns to the son and goes through the father to the stepmother.
Word by word
- ataḥ
- (ataḥ) so
- satyāṁ
- being alive
- jananyāṁ
- the mother
- tu
- but
- vimātā
- a stepmother
- na
- not
- dhanaṁ
- the wealth
- harēt
- takes
- mṛtau
- at the death
- jananyāḥ
- (jananyāḥ) of the mother
- taṁ
- him
- prāpya
- returning to
- pitrā
- through the father
- gacchēt
- goes
- vimātaram
- (vimātaram) to the stepmother
Meaning
The stepmother's claim runs only through the father, so it waits until the mother has died.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Ataḥ". Therefore while the mother is living the stepmother (vimātā) does not take his wealth; the mother alone takes it. But on the mother's death that wealth, having come back to the son, goes through the father to the stepmother.