दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 51
अजीवत्पितृकः पौत्रः पितृव्यैः सह पार्वति । पितामहस्य द्रविणात् स्वपितुर्दायमर्हति ॥ ५१ ॥
ajīvatpitṛkaḥ pautraḥ pitṛvyaiḥ saha pārvati | pitāmahasya draviṇāt svapiturdāyamarhati || 51 ||
Translation
A grandson whose father is dead, O Pārvatī, is entitled, together with his father's brothers, to his own father's share of the grandfather's property.
Word by word
- ajīvat
- not living
- pitṛkaḥ
- (pitṛkaḥ) whose father
- pautraḥ
- (pautraḥ) a grandson
- pitṛvyaiḥ
- (pitṛvyaiḥ) the father's brothers
- saha
- together with
- pārvati
- O Pārvatī
- pitāmahasya
- of the grandfather
- draviṇāt
- (draviṇāt) from the property
- sva
- his own
- pituḥ
- (pituḥ) father's
- dāyam
- (dāyam) share
- arhati
- is entitled to
Meaning
Representation: the grandson steps into his dead father's place and takes the share his father would have had. The commentary sets it in an undivided family.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
When a man who had not separated from his brothers dies, his son, together with his father's brothers, receives from the grandfather's property the share that was his father's: this he tells with "ajīvat" and the rest. O Pārvatī, the grandson whose father is not living, whose father has died, together with his father's brothers, is entitled to receive from the grandfather's property (draviṇa) his own father's inheritance.