दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 89
यत्तु स्वोपार्जितं रिक्थं स्थावरं स्थावरेतरम् । अस्थावरं पैतृकं च स्वेच्छया दातुमर्हति ॥ ८९ ॥
yattu svōpārjitaṁ rikthaṁ sthāvaraṁ sthāvarētaram | asthāvaraṁ paitṛkaṁ ca svēcchayā dātumarhati || 89 ||
Translation
But property he has earned himself, immovable or movable, and ancestral movable property, he may give at his own will.
Word by word
- yat
- which
- tu
- but
- sva
- by himself; his own
- upārjitaṁ
- earned
- rikthaṁ
- property
- sthāvaraṁ
- immovable
- sthāvara
- immovable
- itaram
- (itaram) other than
- asthāvaraṁ
- movable
- paitṛkaṁ
- ancestral
- ca
- and
- icchayā
- by will
- dātum
- (dātum) to give
- arhati
- may
Meaning
What a man earned, and the movable goods he inherited, are his to give.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
By the words "paternal and immovable" it was suggested that a man may freely give away all his own earned property, immovable and the rest, and paternal movable property he has received; he now makes this plain with "yat tu" and the rest. But the property (riktha, wealth) that is self-earned, immovable or other than immovable, that is movable, and the paternal wealth he has received, belonging to the father, that is not immovable, movable wealth, that he may give at his own will.