दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 47
स्थितेऽप्यपत्ये दुहितुः प्रेतस्य पितरि स्थिते । दुहित्रपत्यं धनभाग् धनं यस्मादधोमुखम् ॥ ४७ ॥
sthitē’pyapatyē duhituḥ prētasya pitari sthitē | duhitrapatyaṁ dhanabhāg dhanaṁ yasmādadhōmukham || 47 ||
Translation
When a daughter's child is alive and the dead man's father too, the daughter's child takes the wealth, because wealth faces downward.
Word by word
- sthitē
- being alive
- api
- also
- apatyē
- the child
- duhituḥ
- (duhituḥ) of the daughter
- prētasya
- of the dead man
- pitari
- the father
- duhitṛ
- of the daughter
- apatyaṁ
- the child
- dhana
- the wealth
- bhāg
- takes
- dhanaṁ
- wealth
- yasmāt
- (yasmāt) because
- adhōmukham
- (adhomukham) faces downward
Meaning
The daughter's son is of the descending line and so ranks above the father.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
But of a dead man without anyone from son to daughter, between his father and his daughter's child who are living, which takes his wealth? To that he says "sthite" and the rest. When the father of the departed, the dead man, is living and the daughter's child is living too, since wealth faces downward (adhomukha), the daughter's child alone shares the wealth.