दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 97
एकेन पितृवित्तेन यत्र वित्तमुपार्जितम् । पित्र्ये समांशा दायादा न लाभार्हा विनाऽर्जकम् ॥ ९७ ॥
ēkēna pitṛvittēna yatra vittamupārjitam | pitryē samāṁśā dāyādā na lābhārhā vinā’rjakam || 97 ||
Translation
Where one man has earned wealth with his father's wealth, the heirs share the father's property equally, but apart from the earner they have no claim to the gain.
Word by word
- ēkēna
- by one
- pitṛ
- of the father
- vittēna
- with the wealth
- yatra
- where
- vittam
- (vittam) wealth
- upārjitam
- (upārjitam) has been earned
- pitryē
- in the father's
- sama
- equal
- aṁśāḥ
- (aṁśāḥ) shares
- dāyādāḥ
- (dāyādāḥ) the heirs
- na
- not
- lābha
- to the gain
- arhāḥ
- (arhāḥ) entitled
- vinā
- apart from
- arjakam
- (arjakam) the earner
Meaning
An heir who traded with the family capital returns the capital to be shared; the profit he made is his own.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
But when wealth has been earned with the father's property, are all the heirs entitled to a share of it or not? To this doubt he says "ekena" and the rest. Where, among the heirs, one heir has earned wealth with the father's wealth, the paternal property, all the heirs have equal shares, share alike, in that paternal wealth; but apart from the earner they are not entitled to the gain; the earner alone is entitled to the gain: that is the sense.