Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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7. (The additional share) of the youngest (consists of) the sheep, grain, the iron (utensils), a house, a cart yoked (with oxen), and one of each kind of (other) animals.
8. All the remaining (property shall be divided) equally.
XXVIII, 7.
9. Or let the eldest have two shares,
10. And the rest one each.
11. Or let them each take one kind of property, (selecting), according to seniority, what they desire,
12. Ten head of cattle.
13. (But) no (one brother shall) take (ten) onehoofed beasts or (ten) slaves.
14. (If a man has several wives) the additional
7. Colebrooke II. cit. Avih (a sheep), i.e. an animal having a fleece. The singular number (is used to denote) the species, (and the explanation is), "As many sheep as there are." For (the possession of) one would follow already from the phrase, "And one of each kind of animals." Another (commentator says), "Though the father may possess one sheep only, still it belongs to the youngest, and the phrase 'one of each kind of animals' refers to the case when there are many.". This (additional share is that) belonging to the youngest. (If there are more than three sons) the others obtain the share of the middlemost.'-Haradatta.
8. Colebrooke ll. cit.
9. Colebrooke, Dâyabhâga II, 37; V, Digest 51. My best copy P. leaves out this Sutra and the next. The others read dvyamsi vâ pûivagah (not pûrvagasya, as Professor Stenzler reads), and explain the former word as follows, 'dvâvamsau dvyamsam tadasyâstîti dvyamsî.' Manu IX, 117.
10. Colebrooke ll. cit. 11. Colebrooke V, Digest 68. 12. Colebrooke loc. cit. The meaning appears to be that no brother is to select more than ten
head of cattle.
13. Colebrooke V, Digest 69. But, as has been declared above (Sutra 11), one of each kind only. In the case of the v. 1. dvipadânâm, the word pada (step) is used in the sense of the word pâda (foot).'-Haradatta.
14. Colebrooke V, Digest 58; Manu IX, 123.
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