दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 52
भ्रातृहीना तथा पौत्री पितृव्यैः समभागिनी । पितामहधनं सौम्या हरेच्चेन्मृतमातृका ॥ ५२ ॥
bhrātṛhīnā tathā pautrī pitṛvyaiḥ samabhāginī | pitāmahadhanaṁ saumyā harēccēnmṛtamātṛkā || 52 ||
Translation
So too a granddaughter without brothers, whose mother is dead, if she is of good conduct, takes her grandfather's wealth, sharing equally with her father's brothers.
Word by word
- bhrātṛ
- brothers
- hīnā
- without
- tathā
- so too
- pautrī
- a granddaughter
- pitṛvyaiḥ
- (pitṛvyaiḥ) with the father's brothers
- sama
- equally
- bhāginī
- sharing
- pitāmaha
- the grandfather's
- dhanaṁ
- wealth
- saumyā
- of good conduct
- harēt
- takes
- cēt
- if
- mṛta
- dead
- mātṛkā
- whose mother
Meaning
The same right of representation for a son's daughter, when there is no brother of hers to take it; saumyā, the commentary says, means free of the fault of unchastity.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
A granddaughter too, without brothers and whose mother is not living, is entitled to her dead father's share from the grandfather's property: this he tells with "bhrātṛhīnā" and the rest. If the granddaughter, the son's daughter, whose mother is dead, is without brothers, without brothers of the same womb or half-brothers, and is saumyā, free of the fault called unchastity, then in the same way she shares equally with her father's brothers and takes the grandfather's wealth.