दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 66
ये यस्य धनहर्त्तारो भवेयुर्जीवनावधि । दद्युः पिण्डं त एवाऽस्य शैवभार्यासुतं विना ॥ ६६ ॥
yē yasya dhanaharttārō bhavēyurjīvanāvadhi | dadyuḥ piṇḍaṁ ta ēvā’sya śaivabhāryāsutaṁ vinā || 66 ||
Translation
Those who take a man's wealth should offer him the piṇḍa as long as they live, except the son of the śaiva wife.
Word by word
- yē
- those who
- yasya
- of a man
- dhana
- the wealth
- harttāraḥ
- (harttāraḥ) take
- bhavēyuḥ
- are
- jīvana
- of life
- avadhi
- to the end
- dadyuḥ
- should offer
- piṇḍaṁ
- the piṇḍa
- tē
- they
- ēva
- alone
- asya
- to him
- śaiva
- of the śaiva
- bhāryā
- wife
- sutaṁ
- the son
- vinā
- except
Meaning
Inheritance carries a duty: the heir offers the piṇḍa, the rice-ball of the ancestral rites, to the one he inherits from. The commentary reads the exception as saying the śaivī's son (and the śaivī and her daughter) has no right to offer it; Avalon questions this, since by verse 58 the śaiva son may sometimes inherit, and suggests he may offer the piṇḍa as a pious duty. The commentary's reading is followed here.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Those who receive the property of a man who has died should offer him the piṇḍa as long as they live: this he tells with "ye" and the rest. The men who take a man's wealth, they alone should give the piṇḍa of this man as long as they live (jīvanāvadhi, to the end of their life), except the son of the śaiva wife: he has no right to give the piṇḍa to that man. That is the sense. "The son of the śaiva wife" stands also for the śaivī herself, her daughter and the rest.