दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 53
सत्यां पौत्र्याः पितामह्यां पौत्र्याः पितृष्वसर्यपि । वित्ते पितृगते देवि पौत्री तत्राऽधिकारिणी ॥ ५३ ॥
satyāṁ pautryāḥ pitāmahyāṁ pautryāḥ pitṛṣvasaryapi | vittē pitṛgatē dēvi pautrī tatrā’dhikāriṇī || 53 ||
Translation
When the granddaughter's grandmother is alive, and her father's sister too, O Devī, the granddaughter has the right to the wealth that came through her father.
Word by word
- satyāṁ
- being alive
- pautryāḥ
- (pautryāḥ) the granddaughter's
- pitāmahyāṁ
- grandmother
- pitṛṣvasari
- the father's sister
- api
- too
- vittē
- in the wealth
- pitṛ
- through the father
- gatē
- come
- dēvi
- O Devī
- pautrī
- the granddaughter
- tatra
- there
- adhikāriṇī
- has the right
Meaning
The case of a man who dies leaving mother, sister and his son's daughter: the granddaughter, being of the descending line, inherits before them.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
But of a man who has gone to the five elements, among his mother, sister and daughter who are living, which has the right to that wealth? To that he says "satyām" and the rest. O Devī, when the granddaughter's paternal grandmother is living, and likewise when the granddaughter's father's sister is living, present, the granddaughter, because of the weight of birth in the descending line, has the right there to the wealth that came from the father.