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LAWS OF MANU.
IX, 127.
127. He who has no son may make his daughter in the following manner an appointed daughter (putrikâ, saying to her husband), ‘The (male) child, born of her, shall perform my funeral rites.'
128. According to this rule Daksha, himself, lord of created beings, formerly made all his female offspring) appointed daughters in order to multiply
his race.
129. He gave ten to Dharma, thirteen to Kasyapa, twenty-seven to King Soma, honouring (them) with an affectionate heart.
130. A son is even (as) oneself, (such) a daughter is equal to a son; how can another (heir) take the estate, while such (an appointed daughter who is even) oneself, lives?
131. But whatever may be the separate property of the mother, that is the share of the unmarried daughter alone; and the son of an appointed) daughter shall take the whole estate of (his maternal grandfather) who leaves no son.
127. Gaut. XXVIII, 18; Vas. XVII, 17; Baudh. II, 3, 15; Vi. XV, 5.
128. The story of Daksha's fifty, sixty, or twenty-four daughters occurs in the Mahâbhârata and the Puranas. The twenty-seven given to King Soma, the moon, are the lunar mansions or Nakshatras.
130. 'A son is even (as) oneself;' see the verse quoted, Baudh. II, 3, 14. The commentators state that the word duhitâ, daughter,' means here putriká, an appointed daughter.' Medh. adds that in accordance with this verse, an appointed daughter who has no son, when her father dies, does not inherit his property (?).
131. Gaut. XXVIII, 24; Vi.XVII,21. The correctness of the translation of the term yautakam by separate property' (Medh.), follows from its being used below, verse 214, to denote the separate hoard made by an elder brother. According to Medh., Kull., and Nar. all strîdhana is meant; according to others' mentioned by Medh., Nand., and Râgh., the so-called saudâ yikam or property derived from the
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