दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 76
सुतमादाय सम्मत्या जनन्या जनकस्य च । स्वगोत्रनामान्युल्लिख्य संस्कुर्यात् स्वजनैः सह ॥ ७६ ॥
sutamādāya sammatyā jananyā janakasya ca | svagōtranāmānyullikhya saṁskuryāt svajanaiḥ saha || 76 ||
Translation
Taking the son with the consent of his mother and father, he should perform the boy's sacraments with his own kin, naming his own gotra and names.
Word by word
- sutam
- (sutam) the son
- ādāya
- taking
- sammatyā
- with the consent
- jananyāḥ
- (jananyāḥ) of the mother
- janakasya
- of the father
- ca
- and
- sva
- his own
- gōtra
- gotra
- nāmāni
- and names
- ullikhya
- naming
- saṁskuryāt
- should perform the sacraments
- svajanaiḥ
- (svajanaiḥ) with his own kin
- saha
- together
Meaning
Adoption needs both natural parents' consent; the adoptive father then performs the boy's saṁskāras, speaking his own gotra so that the boy enters it.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Now he says that the one who takes a son, with the consent of the mother and father, should speak the names of his own gotra and so perform the boy's sacraments, with "sutam" and the rest. Taking the son, receiving their son with the consent of the mother who bore him and of the father who begot him, the one who takes him should write (ullikhya), that is speak, the names of his own gotra and perform the sacrament (saṁskāra) together with his own people, his kin.