दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 77
औरसेऽपि यथा पित्रोर्धने पिण्डेऽधिकारिता । आदात्रोर्दत्तके तद्वद्यतोऽस्य पितरौ हि तौ ॥ ७७ ॥
aurasē’pi yathā pitrōrdhanē piṇḍē’dhikāritā | ādātrōrdattakē tadvadyatō’sya pitarau hi tau || 77 ||
Translation
As a son of one's body has the right to his parents' wealth and to offer them the piṇḍa, so has the adopted son to those of the two who took him; for they are his parents.
Word by word
- aurasē
- in a son of one's body
- api
- and
- yathā
- as
- pitrōḥ
- (pitroḥ) of the parents
- dhanē
- in the wealth
- piṇḍē
- in the piṇḍa
- adhikāritā
- the right
- ādātrōḥ
- (ādātroḥ) of the two who took
- dattakē
- in the adopted son
- tadvat
- so
- yataḥ
- (yataḥ) for
- asya
- his
- pitarau
- parents
- hi
- indeed
- tau
- they
Meaning
An adopted son is a full son in inheritance and in the ancestral rites.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
With an example he tells the adopted son's right to the wealth of the two who take him, mother and father, and to give them the piṇḍa, with "aurase 'pi" and the rest. The word "api" is to be joined with "piṇḍa". As a son of one's own body (aurasa) has the right to the parents' wealth and to give them the piṇḍa, so the adopted son has the right to the wealth of the two who take him and to give them the piṇḍa. Showing the reason for the adopted son's right to give the piṇḍa to those who took him, he says "yataḥ" and the rest. Since those two who took him are surely, certainly, the parents of this adopted son, therefore he has the right to their wealth and to give them the piṇḍa: that is the sense.