Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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VISHNU.
XVII, 2.
2. But in regard to wealth inherited of the paternal grandfather, the ownership of father and son is equal.
3. (Sons), who have separated from their father, should give a share to (a brother) who is born after partition.
4. The wealth of a man who dies without male issue goes to his wife;
5. On failure of her, to his daughter; 6. On failure of her, to his father ; 7. On failure of him, to his mother ; 8. On failure of her, to his brother; 9. On failure of him, to his brother's son ;
10. On failure of him, to the relations called Bandhu;
II. On failure of them, to the relations called Sakulya;
12. On failure of them, to a fellow-student;
13. On failure of him, it goes to the king, with the exception of a Brâhmana's property.
14. The property of a Brâhmana goes to (other) Brâhmanas.
8. On failure of brothers the sister inherits.' (Nand.) 9. On failure of a brother's son the sister's son inherits.' (Nand.)
10. Bandhu means Sapinda (allied by funeral oblations). The inheritance goes first to the Sapindas on the father's side in the following order: (the brother's son), the brother's grandson, the grandfather, his son, grandson, and great-grandson, the great-grandfather, his son, grandson, and great-grandson. Then follow the mother's Sapindas in the same order. (Nand.)
11. Sakulya means distant kinsmen, beginning with the fifth in descent and ascent. On failure of such, the inheritance goes to the spiritual teacher; on failure of him, to a pupil of the deceased, as ordained by Åpastamba (II, 6, 14, 3); and on failure of him, to a fellow-student, as stated in Sūtra 12. (Nand.)
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