Jaina Law Bhadrabahu Samhita

Author(s): J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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INHERITANCE AND PARTITION.
tban its quality. The primary condition is the identity--not the union, but the sameness of what we now call Church and State."
So in the Samhita we notice that domestic peace is a result of meritorious Karmas (Sloka 2), and domestic discord is due to decline of meritorious Karmas (Sloka 3). The brothers are enjoined to live separately for the increase of dharma (Slokas 11-12-13): here one may notice a bly half-an-eye to the interests of the many disciples of the great Bhadrababu. The gods of the well-populated Jaina pantheon also are kept fairly busy, for the man who takes back a gift is sent to hell (Sloka 66). The son's widow should serve her mother-in-law (Sloka 75), a rather heavy duty when one takes into account the mother's treatment of the son's wife as an overgrowing sharer in the son's affection and attentions. The favourite bêle-noire of Jainism, Deceit, is punished with forfeiture (Sloka 105). The ceremonies of adoption are semi-religious (Sloka 43).
II. There is a kind of patria potestas, but not of the rigid Roman type, with its relentless jus vitae necisque (the power of life and death). Even the patria potestas was very much modified by an injunction to apply sweet persuasion or to appeal to the family council and the public officials rather than take