दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 44
पितामहस्नुषायाञ्च सत्यां तातविमातरि । पितामहगतं रिक्थं तत्पुत्रेण स्नुषां व्रजेत् ॥ ४४ ॥
pitāmahasnuṣāyāñca satyāṁ tātavimātari | pitāmahagataṁ rikthaṁ tatputrēṇa snuṣāṁ vrajēt || 44 ||
Translation
When the grandfather's daughter-in-law and the father's stepmother are alive, property that went to the grandfather passes through his son to the daughter-in-law.
Word by word
- pitāmaha
- of the grandfather
- snuṣāyāṁ
- the daughter-in-law
- ca
- and
- satyāṁ
- being alive
- tāta
- of the father
- vimātari
- the stepmother
- gataṁ
- gone to
- rikthaṁ
- property
- tat
- his
- putrēṇa
- through the son
- snuṣāṁ
- to the daughter-in-law
- vrajēt
- passes
Meaning
The commentary sets the case: a man dies leaving no one from son to father's brother. The property rises to the grandfather and comes down through his son to that son's widow, the dead man's mother, rather than to the grandfather's other wife.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
But when a man has died without anyone from son to father's brother, does his wealth go to the wife of that father's brother or to his father's stepmother? To this doubt he says "pitāmaha" and the rest. When the grandfather's daughter-in-law, the wife of the grandfather's son, and the father's stepmother are both living, the property (riktha) that went to the grandfather goes, through his son, the grandfather's own son, to the daughter-in-law, the son's wife.