दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 42
असन्तत्या मृतायाश्च स्त्रीधनं स्वामिनं भजेत् । अन्यत्तु द्रविणं यस्मादाप्तं तत्पदमाश्रयेत् ॥ ४२ ॥
asantatyā mṛtāyāśca strīdhanaṁ svāminaṁ bhajēt | anyattu draviṇaṁ yasmādāptaṁ tatpadamāśrayēt || 42 ||
Translation
The strīdhana of a woman who dies childless goes to her husband; but other wealth goes back to the one from whom it came.
Word by word
- asantatyāḥ
- (asantatyāḥ) childless
- mṛtāyāḥ
- (mṛtāyāḥ) who has died
- ca
- and
- strī
- a woman's
- dhanaṁ
- own property
- svāminaṁ
- her husband
- bhajēt
- goes to
- anyat
- other
- tu
- but
- draviṇaṁ
- wealth
- yasmāt
- (yasmāt) from whom
- āptaṁ
- received
- tat
- his
- padam
- (padam) place
- āśrayēt
- goes to
Meaning
A woman's own property passes to her husband; what she held from someone else returns to that person's line.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
The own property of a woman who has died childless goes to her lord, but other property she had received goes to the place it came from: this he tells with "asantatyā" and the rest. The strīdhana of a woman who died childless (asantati, without offspring) goes to (bhajet, is enjoyed by) her lord, her husband. But other wealth, different from that, goes back to the place of the person from whom it was received.