दायभागकथनम्The law of inheritance
Verse 98
पैतृकाणि च वित्तानि नष्टेऽप्युद्धारयेत्तु यः । दायादानां तद्धनेभ्य उद्धर्त्ता द्व्यंशमर्हति ॥ ९८ ॥
paitṛkāṇi ca vittāni naṣṭē’pyuddhārayēttu yaḥ | dāyādānāṁ taddhanēbhya uddharttā dvyaṁśamarhati || 98 ||
Translation
Whoever recovers the father's wealth after it was lost takes two shares of it; the other heirs, one each.
Word by word
- paitṛkāṇi
- of the father
- ca
- and
- vittāni
- the wealth
- naṣṭē
- lost
- api
- even
- uddhārayēt
- recovers
- tu
- but
- yaḥ
- (yaḥ) whoever
- dāyādānāṁ
- of the heirs
- tat
- that
- dhanēbhyaḥ
- (dhanebhyaḥ) of the wealth
- uddharttā
- the recoverer
- dvi
- two
- aṁśam
- (aṁśam) shares
- arhati
- takes
Meaning
A reward for recovering what the family had lost.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
The man who recovers lost paternal property takes two shares of it, the others an equal share: this he tells with "paitṛkāṇi" and the rest. Among the heirs, the heir who recovers (uddhārayet) the paternal wealth even when it was lost, when it had perished, that recoverer is entitled to two shares (dvyaṁśa), two parts, of that wealth, while the others receive an equal share: that is the sense.