Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

Page 1564

XXV, 12.
THE LAW OF INHERITANCE.
371
property, (the worship) takes place separately in each house.
7. Partition among coparceners is declared to be of two kinds; one is with attention to priority of birth, the other consists of the allotment of equal shares.
8. All sons of the twice-born, begotten on women equal in caste (to their husbands), shall take equal shares, after giving a preferential share to the eldest.
9. He who is the first by birth, sacred knowledge, or good qualities, shall take a couple of shares out of the partible wealth, and the rest shall take equal shares; but he stands to them in the relation of a father, as it were.
10. When they divide their father's heritage, all the sons shall share alike; but he who is distinguished by sacred knowledge and virtue, shall obtain a greater share (than the rest).
II. They are parents in the true sense of the term who have a son whose fame is spread in the world for sacred knowledge, cleverness, valour, wealth, and for knowledge, liberality, and pious acts.
12. In property belonging to the grandfather which had been taken away and has been (afterwards) recovered by the father through his own
7. Col. Dig. V, 1, 30; D. II, 80. 8. Col. Dig. V, 1, 53; D. II, 42. 9. Col. Dig. V, 1, 45; D. II, 42; V. p. 67; Viv. p. 235. 10. Col. Dig. V, 1, 67; V, 3, 116. 11. Col. Dig. V, 3, 116; Ratn. p. 484.
12, 13. Col. Dig. V, 2, 90; D. VI, 2, 34; V. p. 126; May. p. 40; Ratn. p. 461. Some compilations read bhagam, withhold it from partition,' for bhogam, consume it.'
B b 2
Digitized by Google