दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 41
विभजेयुर्दुहितरः पुत्राभावे पितुर्वसु । उद्वाहयन्त्योऽनूढां तु पितुः साधारणैर्धनैः ॥ ४१ ॥
vibhajēyurduhitaraḥ putrābhāvē piturvasu | udvāhayantyō’nūḍhāṁ tu pituḥ sādhāraṇairdhanaiḥ || 41 ||
Translation
When there is no son, the daughters should divide their father's wealth, first marrying their unmarried sister with their father's common funds.
Word by word
- vibhajēyuḥ
- should divide
- duhitaraḥ
- (duhitaraḥ) the daughters
- putra
- of a son
- abhāvē
- in want
- pituḥ
- (pituḥ) of the father
- vasu
- wealth
- udvāhayantyaḥ
- (udvāhayantyaḥ) marrying
- anūḍhāṁ
- the unmarried one
- tu
- but
- sādhāraṇaiḥ
- (sādhāraṇaiḥ) with the common
- dhanaiḥ
- (dhanaiḥ) funds
Meaning
A sonless man's daughters inherit together; an unmarried sister's wedding is paid from the common estate before it is shared. The commentary adds, from "tu", that the daughter about to be married also takes her share.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
The daughters of a sonless man who has died should divide all their father's property and take it, marrying off their unmarried sister with the common wealth of the father: this he tells with "vibhajeyuḥ" and the rest. When the father has no son, the daughters, the girls, should divide the father's wealth (vasu, property), giving in marriage the unmarried (anūḍhā) daughter of the father with the father's common wealth. By the word "tu" it is meant that a daughter about to be married also shares the father's property.