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

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BRĪHASPATI.
XXV, 26.
birth and family name having been ascertained (first).
26. He whom indigenous inhabitants and neighbours know to be the (legal) owner, to the descendants of that man must the land be surrendered by his kinsmen, when they make their appearance.
27. Let Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, and Sudras, begotten in order by a Brahman, take four, three, two shares, and one share, in succession.
28. Let those begotten by a Kshatriya (take) three shares, two shares, and one share (respectively). Let those begotten by a Vaisya take two shares and one share.
29. The son by a Kshatriya wife, if elder by birth and endowed with superior qualities, shall take an equal share with the Brahman (son); and so shall a son by a Vaisya wife (share equally) with a Kshatriya son.
30. Land obtained by acceptance of a gift must never be given to the son of a Kshatriya woman or other (wife inferior in caste to her husband). Though their father may have given it to them, the son by a Brahman wife shall take it after the death (of the father).
31. An obedient and excellent son of a man having no other male issue, shall receive a maintenance (though he be born) of a Sudra woman; let the Sapindas take the remainder.
27. Uggvalâ, p. 79; Varadaraga, p. 19. 28. Varadaraga, p. 19. 29. Col. Dig. V, 3, 156; D. IX, 15; V. p. 98.
30. Col. Dig. V, 3, 161; D. IX, 19; M. I, 4, 36, 1, 8, 8; May. p. 46; V. p. 99; Viv. p. 272.
31. Col. Dig. V, 3, 168; D. IX, 28; Viv. p. 274; May. p. 47.
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