दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 40
कन्यायां जीवितायाञ्च तदपत्यं न दायभाक् । यत्र यद्बाधितं वित्तं तन्मृतावपरं व्रजेत् ॥ ४० ॥
kanyāyāṁ jīvitāyāñca tadapatyaṁ na dāyabhāk | yatra yadbādhitaṁ vittaṁ tanmṛtāvaparaṁ vrajēt || 40 ||
Translation
While a daughter is alive her child is not an heir. Wealth is barred by whoever stands before it; on that one's death it passes to the next.
Word by word
- kanyāyāṁ
- a daughter
- jīvitāyāṁ
- being alive
- ca
- and
- tat
- her; that one's
- apatyaṁ
- child
- na
- not
- dāya
- of the inheritance
- bhāk
- a sharer
- yatra
- by whom
- yat
- which
- bādhitaṁ
- is barred
- vittaṁ
- wealth
- mṛtau
- at the death
- aparaṁ
- to the next
- vrajēt
- passes
Meaning
The daughter's son must wait for his mother: as long as a nearer heir lives, the more distant is blocked, and only her death opens the way.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
While a daughter is living her child has no share in the inheritance: this he tells with "kanyāyām" and the rest. While the daughter is living, her child is not a sharer in the inheritance; the daughter alone shares it: that is the sense. Where, in whatever person, a wealth is barred by someone (bādhita), on that one's death, the death of the one who bars it, that wealth goes to the other person.