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XV, 47.
INHERITANCE.
an inferior caste) on women of a higher caste receive a share.
38. Their sons do not even receive a share of the wealth of their paternal grandfathers.
39. They should be supported by the heirs.
40. And he who inherits the wealth, presents the funeral oblation (to the deceased).
41. Amongst wives of one husband also the son of one is the son of all (and must present funeral oblations to them after their death).
42. Likewise, amongst brothers begotten by one (father, the son of one is the son of all, and must present funeral oblations to them all).
43. Let a son present the funeral oblations to his father, even though he inherit no property.
44. Because he saves (trâyate) his father from the hell called Put, therefore (a male child) is called put-tra (protector from Put, son) by Svayambhů himself.
45. He (the father) throws his debt on him (the son); and the father obtains immortality, if he sees the face of a living son.
46. Through a son he conquers the worlds, through a grandson he obtains immortality, and through the son's grandson he gains the world of the sun.
47. No difference is made in this world between the son of a son and the son of a daughter; for even a daughter's son works the salvation of a childless man, just like a son's son.
44. 'Svayambhů means the Veda.' (Nand.)
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