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1124. Gaut. XXVIII, 1g. ‘May take shares,’ i. e. ‘may divide the (other) cows’ (Medh., Kull.), or ‘shall each receive one bull, a very good one, a less excellent one, in due order, according to the seniority of their mothers’ (N4r.). 125. As this verse and the following one contradict the rules given in verses 123-124, the commentators try to reconcile them in various ways. Medh. thinks that verses 123-124 are an arthavada and have no legal force, and R4gh. inclines to the same opinion. N4r. and Nand. hold that the seniority according to the mother’s marriage is of importance for the law of inheritance (verses 123-124), but that it has no value with respect to salutations and the like or to prerogatives at sacrifices (verses 125-126). Kull., finally relying on Gov.’s opinion, thinks that the rules leave an option, and that their application depends on the existence of good qualities and the want of such. It is, however, probable that, according to the custom of Hindu writers, the two conflicting opinions are placed side by side, and that it is intended that the learned should find their way out of the difficulty as they can. 126. The Subrahmany4 texts contain an invitation, addressed to Indra, to partake of the Soma; see Aitareya-brahmama VI, 3. Nand. reads yamayos faikagarbhe ’pi. 352 LAWS OF MANU. IX, 127- 127. He who has no son may make his daughter in the following manner an appointed daughter (putrika, saying to her husband), ‘The (male) child, born of her, shall perform my funeral rites.’ 128, According to this rule Daksha, himself, lord of created beings, formerly made (all his female offspring) appointed daughters in order to multiply his race. 129. He gave ten to Dharma, thirteen to Kasyapa, twenty-seven to King Soma, honouring (them) with an affectionate heart. 130. A son is even (as) oneself, (such) a daughter is equal to a son; how can another (heir) take the estate, while such (an appointed daughter who is even) oneself, lives ? 131. But whatever may be the separate property of the mother, that is the share of the unmarried daughter alone; and the son of an (appointed) daughter shall take the whole estate of (his maternal grandfather) who leaves no son. 127. Gaut. XXVIII, 18; Vas. XVII, 17; Baudh. II, 3,15; Vi. XV, 5. 128, The story of Daksha’s fifty, sixty, or twenty-four daughters occurs in the Mahabharata and the Purd#as. The twenty-seven given to King Soma, the moon, are the lunar mansions or Nakshatras. 130. ‘A son is even (as) oneself ;’ see the verse quoted, Baudh. II, 3,14. The commentators state that the word duhitA, ‘ daughter,’ means here putrik4, ‘an appointed daughter.’ Medh. adds that in accordance with this verse, an appointed daughter who has no son, when her father dies, does not inherit his property (?).
2II, 3,14. The commentators state that the word duhitA, ‘ daughter,’ means here putrik4, ‘an appointed daughter.’ Medh. adds that in accordance with this verse, an appointed daughter who has no son, when her father dies, does not inherit his property (?). 131. Gaut. XXVIII, 24; Vi.XVII,21. The correctness of the translation of the term yautakam by ‘separate property’ (Medh.), follows from its being used below, verse 214, to denote the separate hoard made by an elder brother. According to Medh., Kull., and Nar. all stridhana is meant; according to ‘others’ mentioned by Medh., Nand., and Ragh., the so-called saud4yikam or property derived from the IX, 133. INHERITANCE, 353 132. The son of an (appointed) daughter, indeed, shall (also) take the estate of his (own) father, who leaves no (other) son; he shall (then) present two funeral cakes to his own father and to his maternal grandfather. 133. Between a son’s son and the son of an (appointed) daughter there is no difference, neither with respect to worldly matters nor to sacred duties; for their father and mother both sprang from the body of the same (man). 134. But if, after a daughter has been appointed, a son be born (to her father), the division (of the inheritance) must in that (case) be equal; for there is no right of primogeniture for a woman. 135. But ifan appointed daughter by accident dies without (leaving) a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate. father’s family. Kuméri, ‘an unmarried daughter’ (Medh., Kull.), means according to Nar. ‘a daughter who has no sons.’ Dauhitrah, literally ‘the son of a daughter,’ means according to the commentators ‘the son of an appointed daughter,’ putrik4putraA. The first rule is, according to Kull., Nar., and Nand., a general maxim, which refers not merely to the case of a putrika. The second rule shows, according to Nand., that the appointed daughter herself does not inherit her father’s estate, if she has a son. 132. Medh. mentions a var. lect., aputrasya hared yadi, ‘If the son of an (appointed) daughter takes the entire estate of (his maternal grandfather), &c.,’ which is also found in Gov.’s text, but considers it to be wrong. 133. Yagn. II, 128. Loke dharmatad, ‘neither with respect to worldly affairs nor to sacred duties’(Kull.), means according to Ragh. and Nand. ‘with respect to sacred duties, according to the law.’ 135. ‘That estate,’ i.e. ‘what the appointed daughter received from her father either during his lifetime or after his death’ (Nar.). Kull. adds that the verse is intended to forbid the father’s inheriting his pre-deceased daughter’s property, on the plea that she was like a son (see verse 185). Nand. says that the paternal uncles &c. shall not take the putrika’s estate. [25] Aa 354 LAWS OF MANU. IX, 136.
3Kull. adds that the verse is intended to forbid the father’s inheriting his pre-deceased daughter’s property, on the plea that she was like a son (see verse 185). Nand. says that the paternal uncles &c. shall not take the putrika’s estate. [25] Aa 354 LAWS OF MANU. IX, 136. 136. Through that son whom (a daughter), either not appointed or appointed, may bear to (a husband) of equal (caste), his maternal grandfather (has) a son’s son; he shall present the funeral cake and take the estate. 137. Through a son he conquers the worlds, through a son’s son he obtains immortality, but through his son’s grandson he gains the world of the sun. 138. Because a son delivers (trayate) his father from the hell called Put, he was therefore called put-tra (a deliverer from Put) by the Self-existent (Svayambhd) himself. 139. Between a son’s son and the son of a daughter there exists in this world no difference ; for even the son of a daughter saves him (who has . no sons) in the next world, like the son’s son. 136. Kull. explains akrit& v4 kritd vapi by ‘(a daughter) either appointed not (explicitly but by a mental reservation), or appointed (explicitly, at the betrothal, according to verse 127).’ He adds that Gov. takes the word akrzt4 in its usual sense, and asserts that the verse allows the son of a daughter not appointed to inherit his maternal grandfather’s estate. The latter opinion is held also by N4r., who remarks that the son of a daughter not appointed inherits on failure of a wife or of daughters of his grandfather; and by Nand. Ragh. and Medh. side with Kull., whose explanation is supported by Gaut. XXVIII, 20, and still more by Vi. XV, 6. The latter passage clearly prescribes that the daughter of a man who has no sons is in every case ‘an appointed daughter.’ 137. Vas. XVII, 5; Vi. XV, 46; Yagv. 1, 78. ‘The worlds,’ i.e. ‘the ten, called visoka (free from sorrow), the first of which is svarga’ (Medh.). ‘Immortality, i.e. a very long residenee in those same (worlds), (Medh., Kull.) ‘The sun,’ i. e. ‘ Hiranyagarbha’ (Nar.). The verse shows that sons and grandsons inherit, though a wife and the rest may be living (Kull.). 138. Vi. XV, 44. 139. Vi. XV, 47. According to Medh. and Kull., dauhitra4, ‘ the EX, 142. INHERITANCE, 355 140. Let the son of an appointed daughter first present a funeral cake to his mother, the second to her father, the third to his father’s father. 141. Of the man who has an adopted (Datrima) son possessing all good qualities, that same (son) shall take the inheritance, though brought from another family. 142. An adopted son shall never take the family (name) and the estate of his natural father; the funeral cake follows the family (name) and the estate, the funeral offerings of him who gives (his son in adoption) cease (as far as that son is concerned). son of a daughter,’ means here also ‘the son of an appointed daughter.’ Nand. reads putravat, ‘like a son;’ Gov. pfrvagan, ‘(and) the ancestors.’
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1124. Gaut. XXVIII, 1g. ‘May take shares,’ i. e. ‘may divide the (other) cows’ (Medh., Kull.), or ‘shall each receive one bull, a very good one, a less excellent one, in due order, according to the seniority of their mothers’ (N4r.). 125. As this verse and the following one contradict the rules given in verses 123-124, the commentators try to reconcile them in various ways. Medh. thinks that verses 123-124 are an arthavada and have no legal force, and R4gh. inclines to the same opinion. N4r. and Nand. hold that the seniority according to the mother’s marriage is of importance for the law of inheritance (verses 123-124), but that it has no value with respect to salutations and the like or to prerogatives at sacrifices (verses 125-126). Kull., finally relying on Gov.’s opinion, thinks that the rules leave an option, and that their application depends on the existence of good qualities and the want of such. It is, however, probable that, according to the custom of Hindu writers, the two conflicting opinions are placed side by side, and that it is intended that the learned should find their way out of the difficulty as they can. 126. The Subrahmany4 texts contain an invitation, addressed to Indra, to partake of the Soma; see Aitareya-brahmama VI, 3. Nand. reads yamayos faikagarbhe ’pi. 352 LAWS OF MANU. IX, 127- 127. He who has no son may make his daughter in the following manner an appointed daughter (putrika, saying to her husband), ‘The (male) child, born of her, shall perform my funeral rites.’ 128, According to this rule Daksha, himself, lord of created beings, formerly made (all his female offspring) appointed daughters in order to multiply his race. 129. He gave ten to Dharma, thirteen to Kasyapa, twenty-seven to King Soma, honouring (them) with an affectionate heart. 130. A son is even (as) oneself, (such) a daughter is equal to a son; how can another (heir) take the estate, while such (an appointed daughter who is even) oneself, lives ? 131. But whatever may be the separate property of the mother, that is the share of the unmarried daughter alone; and the son of an (appointed) daughter shall take the whole estate of (his maternal grandfather) who leaves no son. 127. Gaut. XXVIII, 18; Vas. XVII, 17; Baudh. II, 3,15; Vi. XV, 5. 128, The story of Daksha’s fifty, sixty, or twenty-four daughters occurs in the Mahabharata and the Purd#as. The twenty-seven given to King Soma, the moon, are the lunar mansions or Nakshatras. 130. ‘A son is even (as) oneself ;’ see the verse quoted, Baudh. II, 3,14. The commentators state that the word duhitA, ‘ daughter,’ means here putrik4, ‘an appointed daughter.’ Medh. adds that in accordance with this verse, an appointed daughter who has no son, when her father dies, does not inherit his property (?).
2II, 3,14. The commentators state that the word duhitA, ‘ daughter,’ means here putrik4, ‘an appointed daughter.’ Medh. adds that in accordance with this verse, an appointed daughter who has no son, when her father dies, does not inherit his property (?). 131. Gaut. XXVIII, 24; Vi.XVII,21. The correctness of the translation of the term yautakam by ‘separate property’ (Medh.), follows from its being used below, verse 214, to denote the separate hoard made by an elder brother. According to Medh., Kull., and Nar. all stridhana is meant; according to ‘others’ mentioned by Medh., Nand., and Ragh., the so-called saud4yikam or property derived from the IX, 133. INHERITANCE, 353 132. The son of an (appointed) daughter, indeed, shall (also) take the estate of his (own) father, who leaves no (other) son; he shall (then) present two funeral cakes to his own father and to his maternal grandfather. 133. Between a son’s son and the son of an (appointed) daughter there is no difference, neither with respect to worldly matters nor to sacred duties; for their father and mother both sprang from the body of the same (man). 134. But if, after a daughter has been appointed, a son be born (to her father), the division (of the inheritance) must in that (case) be equal; for there is no right of primogeniture for a woman. 135. But ifan appointed daughter by accident dies without (leaving) a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate. father’s family. Kuméri, ‘an unmarried daughter’ (Medh., Kull.), means according to Nar. ‘a daughter who has no sons.’ Dauhitrah, literally ‘the son of a daughter,’ means according to the commentators ‘the son of an appointed daughter,’ putrik4putraA. The first rule is, according to Kull., Nar., and Nand., a general maxim, which refers not merely to the case of a putrika. The second rule shows, according to Nand., that the appointed daughter herself does not inherit her father’s estate, if she has a son. 132. Medh. mentions a var. lect., aputrasya hared yadi, ‘If the son of an (appointed) daughter takes the entire estate of (his maternal grandfather), &c.,’ which is also found in Gov.’s text, but considers it to be wrong. 133. Yagn. II, 128. Loke dharmatad, ‘neither with respect to worldly affairs nor to sacred duties’(Kull.), means according to Ragh. and Nand. ‘with respect to sacred duties, according to the law.’ 135. ‘That estate,’ i.e. ‘what the appointed daughter received from her father either during his lifetime or after his death’ (Nar.). Kull. adds that the verse is intended to forbid the father’s inheriting his pre-deceased daughter’s property, on the plea that she was like a son (see verse 185). Nand. says that the paternal uncles &c. shall not take the putrika’s estate. [25] Aa 354 LAWS OF MANU. IX, 136.
3Kull. adds that the verse is intended to forbid the father’s inheriting his pre-deceased daughter’s property, on the plea that she was like a son (see verse 185). Nand. says that the paternal uncles &c. shall not take the putrika’s estate. [25] Aa 354 LAWS OF MANU. IX, 136. 136. Through that son whom (a daughter), either not appointed or appointed, may bear to (a husband) of equal (caste), his maternal grandfather (has) a son’s son; he shall present the funeral cake and take the estate. 137. Through a son he conquers the worlds, through a son’s son he obtains immortality, but through his son’s grandson he gains the world of the sun. 138. Because a son delivers (trayate) his father from the hell called Put, he was therefore called put-tra (a deliverer from Put) by the Self-existent (Svayambhd) himself. 139. Between a son’s son and the son of a daughter there exists in this world no difference ; for even the son of a daughter saves him (who has . no sons) in the next world, like the son’s son. 136. Kull. explains akrit& v4 kritd vapi by ‘(a daughter) either appointed not (explicitly but by a mental reservation), or appointed (explicitly, at the betrothal, according to verse 127).’ He adds that Gov. takes the word akrzt4 in its usual sense, and asserts that the verse allows the son of a daughter not appointed to inherit his maternal grandfather’s estate. The latter opinion is held also by N4r., who remarks that the son of a daughter not appointed inherits on failure of a wife or of daughters of his grandfather; and by Nand. Ragh. and Medh. side with Kull., whose explanation is supported by Gaut. XXVIII, 20, and still more by Vi. XV, 6. The latter passage clearly prescribes that the daughter of a man who has no sons is in every case ‘an appointed daughter.’ 137. Vas. XVII, 5; Vi. XV, 46; Yagv. 1, 78. ‘The worlds,’ i.e. ‘the ten, called visoka (free from sorrow), the first of which is svarga’ (Medh.). ‘Immortality, i.e. a very long residenee in those same (worlds), (Medh., Kull.) ‘The sun,’ i. e. ‘ Hiranyagarbha’ (Nar.). The verse shows that sons and grandsons inherit, though a wife and the rest may be living (Kull.). 138. Vi. XV, 44. 139. Vi. XV, 47. According to Medh. and Kull., dauhitra4, ‘ the EX, 142. INHERITANCE, 355 140. Let the son of an appointed daughter first present a funeral cake to his mother, the second to her father, the third to his father’s father. 141. Of the man who has an adopted (Datrima) son possessing all good qualities, that same (son) shall take the inheritance, though brought from another family. 142. An adopted son shall never take the family (name) and the estate of his natural father; the funeral cake follows the family (name) and the estate, the funeral offerings of him who gives (his son in adoption) cease (as far as that son is concerned). son of a daughter,’ means here also ‘the son of an appointed daughter.’ Nand. reads putravat, ‘like a son;’ Gov. pfrvagan, ‘(and) the ancestors.’
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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