दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 49
स्थितः स्वपितृसापिण्डो वर्त्तमानेऽपि मातुले । प्रेतस्य धनहारी स्यात् पितुः सम्बन्धगौरवात् ॥ ४९ ॥
sthitaḥ svapitṛsāpiṇḍō varttamānē’pi mātulē | prētasya dhanahārī syāt pituḥ sambandhagauravāt || 49 ||
Translation
Even while the mother's brother is alive, a living sapiṇḍa of one's father takes the dead man's wealth, by the weight of the father's relationship.
Word by word
- sthitaḥ
- (sthitaḥ) living
- sva
- one's own
- pitṛ
- father's
- sāpiṇḍaḥ
- (sāpiṇḍaḥ) sapiṇḍa
- varttamānē
- being alive
- api
- even
- mātulē
- the mother's brother
- prētasya
- of the dead man
- dhana
- of the wealth
- hārī
- the taker
- syāt
- is
- pituḥ
- (pituḥ) of the father
- sambandha
- of the relationship
- gauravāt
- (gauravāt) by the weight
Meaning
Sapiṇḍas are the father's kin within seven generations (verse 63). The father's side outranks the mother's even where the maternal uncle is closer by degree.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
But of a dead man's maternal uncle and his father's sapiṇḍa who are living, which shares that wealth? To that he says "sthitaḥ" and the rest. Even while the maternal uncle is living, because of the weight of the relationship through the father, the sapiṇḍa of one's own father who is living takes the wealth of the departed. Sāpiṇḍa is the same as sapiṇḍa, the suffix aṇ in its own sense by "prajñādibhyaś ca".