दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 68
पूर्णेऽशौचेऽथवाऽपूर्णे तत्कालाभ्यन्तरे श्रुते । श्रवणाच्छेषदिवसैर्विशुद्ध्येयुर्द्विजादयः ॥ ६८ ॥
pūrṇē’śaucē’thavā’pūrṇē tatkālābhyantarē śrutē | śravaṇācchēṣadivasairviśuddhyēyurdvijādayaḥ || 68 ||
Translation
When an impurity, full or partial, is heard of within its period, the twice-born and others are purified by the days that remain after the day they hear of it.
Word by word
- pūrṇē
- full
- aśaucē
- an impurity
- athavā
- or
- apūrṇē
- partial
- tat
- its
- kāla
- period
- abhyantarē
- within
- śrutē
- heard of
- śravaṇāt
- (śravaṇāt) from the hearing
- śēṣa
- remaining
- divasaiḥ
- (divasaiḥ) by the days
- viśuddhyēyuḥ
- are purified
- dvija
- the twice-born
- ādayaḥ
- (ādayaḥ) and others
Meaning
Someone abroad who learns of a death while its period of impurity is still running keeps only the days left. A full impurity (pūrṇa) is that of close kin, a partial one (khaṇḍa) that of more distant kin; Avalon's notes set the line at the seventh degree.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
But for brāhmaṇas and others living in another country who hear of a full or partial impurity only within its period, is purity reached by the days of impurity left after the day of hearing, or by ten days and the rest counted from that day? To this doubt he says "pūrṇe" and the rest. When an impurity, full, or else partial (khaṇḍa), is heard of within its time, within the period of impurity, the twice-born and the rest, the brāhmaṇas and others, are purified by the days that remain, the days and nights left after the day on which the impurity was heard of. Śravaṇa is that in which something is heard; the suffix lyuṭ is in the sense of the locus, by "karaṇādhikaraṇayoś ca".