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adopted son (satôr), for the adopted son's duty (satorih) remains with her, and she manages to claim guardianship for the family from some man out of the relatives most nearly allied. 10. Out of the portion of the property for food and maintenance the wife should provide the daughters with husbands; and to keep going the necessities in the guardianship, the nurture which the deceased man afforded, and the ceremonies and good works imposed upon the family, and thereby become indispensable, she herself is to take lapfuls and armfuls? out of the income (bar).
11. As to the sisters of that man, if they have been necessarily in his guardianship, even as to nourishment, and there is no property for them in any other way, their food and maintenance are also needful to be out of the income of the property, unless ? that man has otherwise devised, or the appointment of a husband is not provided on account of the non-subjection (10 fto afrih) in which they have been unto the guardianship of that man, or anything else opposed to it, so that nothing whatever of the property of that man is needful for them.
12. He who is a husband of one of the daughters is a leader in the management (dastóbarih) of the family, but with the concurrence of the house-mistress of the family, and even so when the action is one which they should not do, and his son is not born, or becomes passing aways.
· Literally the bosom size and arm size,' a Pahlavi idiom for 'plenty.'
. In the Pahlavi text this latter half of the section precedes the foregoing provisional clauses.
• The meaning seems to be that so long as he has no son (who
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