दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 46
पितृव्यात् सन्निकर्षेऽत्र तुल्यौ भ्रातृपितामहौ । धनं पितृपदं गत्वा प्रयातुर्भ्रातरं भजेत् ॥ ४६ ॥
pitṛvyāt sannikarṣē’tra tulyau bhrātṛpitāmahau | dhanaṁ pitṛpadaṁ gatvā prayāturbhrātaraṁ bhajēt || 46 ||
Translation
Here the brother and the grandfather are equally near, nearer than the father's brother; but the wealth goes to the father's place and passes to the brother of the dead man.
Word by word
- pitṛvyāt
- (pitṛvyāt) than the father's brother
- sannikarṣē
- in nearness
- atra
- here
- tulyau
- equal
- bhrātṛ
- the brother
- pitāmahau
- and the grandfather
- dhanaṁ
- the wealth
- pitṛ
- of the father
- padaṁ
- to the place
- gatvā
- having gone
- prayātuḥ
- (prayātuḥ) of the departed
- bhrātaraṁ
- to the brother
- bhajēt
- passes
Meaning
In nearness the brother and grandfather tie; the tie is broken by the descending line: from the father it comes down to his son, the dead man's brother.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Pitṛvyāt". Here, though in the world the brother and the grandfather are equal, alike, in nearness (sannikarṣa, closeness), nearer than the father's brother, yet because those born below rank first, the wealth of the man who has gone to heaven, having gone to the father's place, goes to the brother.