दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 90
स्थिते पुत्रेऽथवा पत्न्यां कन्यायां तत्सुतेऽपि वा । जनके च जनन्यां वा भ्रातर्येवं स्वसर्यपि ॥ ९० ॥
sthitē putrē’thavā patnyāṁ kanyāyāṁ tatsutē’pi vā | janakē ca jananyāṁ vā bhrātaryēvaṁ svasaryapi || 90 ||
Translation
Even while a son, a wife, a daughter or her son, a father or mother, a brother or a sister is living,
Word by word
- sthitē
- living
- putrē
- a son
- athavā
- or
- patnyāṁ
- a wife
- kanyāyāṁ
- a daughter
- tat
- her
- sutē
- son
- api
- even
- vā
- or
- janakē
- a father
- ca
- and
- jananyāṁ
- a mother
- bhrātari
- a brother
- ēvaṁ
- so too
- svasari
- a sister
Meaning
Verses 90-91 form one sentence: the presence of near relatives does not limit a man's power over what verse 89 leaves to him.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Even without the consent of the very near, the son and the rest, a man is able to give away all his self-earned property, immovable and the rest, and paternal movable wealth: this he tells in two verses, "sthite" and the next. Even while a son, his own born son, is living, or a wife, his consort, or a daughter, a girl, or her son, the daughter's son, or the father who begot him, or the mother, or likewise a brother of the same womb, or even a sister: whatever immovable wealth is self-earned, earned by himself, and whatever wealth is not immovable, movable property, and the paternal movable wealth: all of it he is able to give.