Jaina Law Bhadrabahu Samhita

SR No.: 011057
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Total Pages: 146
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 5 MB

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APPENDIX B.
एषामभावे पूर्वस्य धनभागुत्तरोत्तरः । स्वर्यातस्य हृपुत्रस्य सर्व वर्णेष्वयं विधिः । वानप्रस्थ यति ब्रह्मचारिण मृकथभागिनः । क्रमेणाचार्य सच्छिष्य धर्म्म भ्रात्रे कतीर्थिनः ॥ देशांतरगते प्रेते द्रव्यं दायादवांधवाः । ज्ञातया वा हरेयुस्तदा गतास्तैर्विना नृपः ॥
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याज्ञवल्क्यः ॥ २१३५, १३७, २६४ ॥
"The law-fully wedded wife and the daugthers also, both parents, brothers likewise, and thoir sons, gentiles, cognates, a pupil, and a fellow-student, on failure of the first among them, the next in order is the heir to the estate of one who departed for heaven, leaveng no male issue. This rule extends to all classes.
The heirs to the property of a hermit, of an ascetic, and of a student in theology are in order (that is in the inverse order)-the preceptor, a virtuous pupil and a spiritual brother belonging to the same hermitage.
The wealth of a (trader) dying abroad, shall be taken by his Dayadas (i.c., his lineal descendants), Bandhavas (i.c., relations on the mother's side, beginning with the maternal uncle), agnates, or his partners who may have returned; and, failing those, by the king. - Yajnavalkya. 11.135-137, 264.
This law is for succession to the estate of a sonless man. The Hindu son as such, is taken all at once and without any dispute or hesitation to be the heir to his deceased father in preference to his widowed mother. Why this great divergence betwen the Hindu and Jaina Law? I have ventured to generalise above (at page 27) that " Jaina Law differs from Hindu Law just where it would be expected to-namely, in the