दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 73
यद्यशौचान्तदिवसे पतेदपरसूतकम् । पूर्वाशौचेन शुद्धिः स्यादघवृद्ध्या दिनद्वयम् ॥ ७३ ॥
yadyaśaucāntadivasē patēdaparasūtakam | pūrvāśaucēna śuddhiḥ syādaghavṛddhyā dinadvayam || 73 ||
Translation
If another impurity falls on the last day of an impurity, purity comes with the first; but if the impurity grows, two days are added.
Word by word
- yadi
- if
- aśauca
- of an impurity
- anta
- on the last
- divasē
- day
- patēt
- falls
- apara
- another
- sūtakam
- (sūtakam) impurity
- pūrva
- by the first
- aśaucēna
- impurity
- śuddhiḥ
- (śuddhiḥ) purity
- syāt
- comes
- agha
- of the impurity
- vṛddhyā
- by the growth
- dina
- days
- dvayam
- (dvayam) two
Meaning
The commentary and Avalon agree: a partial impurity that begins on the last day ends with the first; a second full impurity beginning on that day extends the first by two days. Sūtaka, the impurity of birth, stands here for that of death as well.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
But when on the last day of one impurity another impurity falls, is purity by the former impurity or by the latter? To this doubt he says "yadi" and the rest. If on the last day of an impurity, in the last day and night of the impurity of a birth, another sūtaka falls, an impurity, partial, caused by another birth, then purity comes with the former impurity as it passes. But if on the last day of the impurity another full impurity falls, the impurity grows: then by the growth of the impurity there are two days of impurity beyond the last day of the former. "Sūtaka" (birth-impurity) stands also for the impurity of a death; there too it is to be understood in the same way.