दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 65
अविभक्ते विभक्ते वा यस्य यादृग्विभागिता । मृतेऽपि तस्य दायादास्तादृग्विभवभागिनः ॥ ६५ ॥
avibhaktē vibhaktē vā yasya yādṛgvibhāgitā | mṛtē’pi tasya dāyādāstādṛgvibhavabhāginaḥ || 65 ||
Translation
Whatever share each had in a man's property, divided or undivided, his heirs have the same share of the estate after his death.
Word by word
- avibhaktē
- in undivided
- vibhaktē
- in divided
- vā
- or
- yasya
- of whom
- yādṛg
- (yādṛk) what kind of
- vibhāgitā
- share
- mṛtē
- having died
- api
- even
- tasya
- his
- dāyādāḥ
- (dāyādāḥ) heirs
- tādṛg
- (tādṛk) the same kind of
- vibhava
- in the estate
- bhāginaḥ
- (bhāginaḥ) sharers
Meaning
Heirs inherit the position of the dead man, no more and no less.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Whatever kind of share people had in all the property, divided or undivided, of a man while he lived, they have the same kind of share in it after his death: this he tells with "avibhakte" and the rest. Whatever kind of share (yādṛg-vibhāgitā) those heirs have in the property, undivided or divided, of a man, even after the death of that man those heirs share in the estate in the same way.