दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 38
स्थितायां सोदरायाञ्च विमातुः पुत्रसन्ततौ । वैमात्रेयगतं वित्तं वैमात्रेयान्वयो भजेत् ॥ ३८ ॥
sthitāyāṁ sōdarāyāñca vimātuḥ putrasantatau | vaimātrēyagataṁ vittaṁ vaimātrēyānvayō bhajēt || 38 ||
Translation
And when the full sister and the stepmother's line of sons are alive, the wealth that went to the half-brother passes to the half-brother's line.
Word by word
- sthitāyāṁ
- being alive
- sōdarāyāṁ
- the full sister
- ca
- and
- vimātuḥ
- (vimātuḥ) of the stepmother
- putra
- of sons
- santatau
- the line
- vaimātrēya
- the half-brother
- gataṁ
- gone to
- vittaṁ
- the wealth
- anvayaḥ
- (anvayaḥ) the line
- bhajēt
- passes to
Meaning
Once it has gone to the half-brother it follows his descendants, not the full sister.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
But when a sister of the same womb and the half-brother's descendants are living, who receives the wealth that went to the half-brother on his death? To that he says "sthitāyām" and the rest. When the sister of the same womb and the stepmother's line of sons are living, the wealth that went to the half-brother, on his death, goes to (bhajet, is enjoyed by) the half-brother's line, the descendants of the stepmother's son.