दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 35
अधस्तनानां विरहाद्यथा रिक्थं न यात्यधः । येनैवाऽधस्तनं प्राप्तं तेनैवोर्ध्वं तदा व्रजेत् ॥ ३५ ॥
adhastanānāṁ virahādyathā rikthaṁ na yātyadhaḥ | yēnaivā’dhastanaṁ prāptaṁ tēnaivōrdhvaṁ tadā vrajēt || 35 ||
Translation
When for want of descendants property cannot go down, it goes up then by the very one through whom it came down.
Word by word
- adhastanānāṁ
- of descendants
- virahāt
- (virahāt) for want
- yathā
- when
- rikthaṁ
- property
- na
- not
- yāti
- goes
- adhaḥ
- (adhaḥ) down
- yēna
- by whom
- ēva
- very
- adhastanaṁ
- below
- prāptaṁ
- it came
- tēna
- by him
- ūrdhvaṁ
- upward
- tadā
- then
- vrajēt
- goes
Meaning
The path upward retraces the path by which the property came: it returns through the person from whom the holder received it.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Because, when there are no takers of the property of the descending line, wealth that cannot go down goes upward, the wealth of a childless woman who had received her brother's wealth goes, on her death while her husband lives, to her father's brother: this he tells in two verses, "adhastanānām" and the next. When for want of those born below (adhastana, descendants) the property, the wealth, does not go down, then it goes upward through that very person through whom it reached the one below.