दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 81
कानीना गोलकाः कुण्डा अतिपातकिनश्च ये । नाऽशौचं मरणे तेषां नैव दायाधिकारिता ॥ ८१ ॥
kānīnā gōlakāḥ kuṇḍā atipātakinaśca yē | nā’śaucaṁ maraṇē tēṣāṁ naiva dāyādhikāritā || 81 ||
Translation
For the kānīna, the golaka, the kuṇḍa and those guilty of the gravest sins, there is no impurity at their death and no right to inherit.
Word by word
- kānīnāḥ
- (kānīnāḥ) the kānīnas
- gōlakāḥ
- (golakāḥ) the golakas
- kuṇḍāḥ
- (kuṇḍāḥ) the kuṇḍas
- atipātakinaḥ
- (atipātakinaḥ) the gravest sinners
- ca
- and
- yē
- who
- na
- no
- aśaucaṁ
- impurity
- maraṇē
- at the death
- tēṣāṁ
- their
- ēva
- at all
- dāya
- to inherit
- adhikāritā
- right
Meaning
Kānīna: a son born to an unmarried girl in her father's house; golaka: a son born to a widow by a lover; kuṇḍa: one born to a wife by a lover while her husband lives; atipātakin: those guilty of the sins of chapter 11.29-30. These are the rules of the Tantra's own ideal kingdom, given as the text states them; they describe its teaching, not any present law.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Those born of a maiden, the golaka and the rest, have no right to an inheritance and there is no impurity at their death: this he tells with "kānīnāḥ" and the rest. The kānīnas, those begotten on a maiden secretly in her father's house; the golakas, born of a lover after the husband's death; the kuṇḍas, born of a lover while the husband lives; and those who are atipātakins, of the marks already told: at their death there is no impurity, and they have no right to an inheritance. "A lover's son while the husband lives is a kuṇḍa; when the husband is dead, a golaka," says the lexicon.