दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 74
तावत् पितृकुलाशौचं यावन्नोद्वहनं स्त्रियाः । जाते परिणये पित्रोर्मृतौ त्र्यहमुदाहृतम् ॥ ७४ ॥
tāvat pitṛkulāśaucaṁ yāvannōdvahanaṁ striyāḥ | jātē pariṇayē pitrōrmṛtau tryahamudāhṛtam || 74 ||
Translation
A woman keeps the impurity of her father's family until she marries; after the marriage, on the death of her parents, three days are declared.
Word by word
- tāvat
- so long
- pitṛ
- of the father's
- kula
- family
- aśaucaṁ
- the impurity
- yāvat
- as
- na
- not
- udvahanaṁ
- marriage
- striyāḥ
- (striyāḥ) of a woman
- jātē
- having taken place
- pariṇayē
- the marriage
- pitrōḥ
- (pitroḥ) of the parents
- mṛtau
- on the death
- tryaham
- (tryaham) three days
- udāhṛtam
- (udāhṛtam) is declared
Meaning
Marriage moves a woman into her husband's family for ritual purposes, but she still keeps three days for her own parents.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
But is a woman impure when there is impurity in her father's family only, or in her husband's family only, or in both? To this doubt he says "tāvat" and the rest. As long as there is no marriage (udvahana), so long a woman has the impurity of her father's family, the impurity that belongs to the father's family. By this it is shown that after marriage a woman has the impurity of her husband's family alone. But then after marriage would a woman have no impurity even on the death of the mother and father who begot her? To that he says "jāte" and the rest. Even when the marriage (pariṇaya) has taken place, on the death of her parents, of her mother and father, an impurity of three days (tryaha) is declared for the woman.