दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 61
अतः सत्कुलजां कन्यां शैवैरुद्वाहयन् पिता । क्रोधाद्वा लोभतो वापि स भवेल्लोकगर्हितः ॥ ६१ ॥
ataḥ satkulajāṁ kanyāṁ śaivairudvāhayan pitā | krōdhādvā lōbhatō vāpi sa bhavēllōkagarhitaḥ || 61 ||
Translation
So a father who, from anger or greed, gives his daughter of good family in marriage by śaiva rites is blamed by the world.
Word by word
- ataḥ
- (ataḥ) so
- sat
- good
- kula
- family
- jāṁ
- born of
- kanyāṁ
- a daughter
- śaivaiḥ
- (śaivaiḥ) by śaiva rites
- udvāhayan
- giving in marriage
- pitā
- a father
- krōdhāt
- (krodhāt) from anger
- vā
- or
- lōbhataḥ
- (lobhataḥ) from greed
- api
- even
- saḥ
- he
- bhavēt
- is
- lōka
- by the world
- garhitaḥ
- (garhitaḥ) blamed
Meaning
Because a girl so married loses her claims on both her father's and her husband's estates (verses 58-60), the father who sends her into such a marriage for his own ends wrongs her.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Now, to show that a father who gives a daughter of good family in marriage by the śaiva rite is blamed by the world, he says "ataḥ" and the rest. Therefore, because, while the brāhmī wife's line or a sapiṇḍa of the parents is living, she would have no right to her husband's property nor to the property of her own father and the rest, the father who from anger or from greed gives in marriage by śaiva rites a girl of good family, born of a good line, is blamed (garhita), reproached, by the world.