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INHERITANCE AND PARTITION.
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(rules), a daughter is like a son. For purposes of partition (dayabhaga) and oblation ceremonies (pindadana), the daughter's sons are like the sons.
आत्मा वै जायते पुत्रः पुत्रेण दुहिता समा। तस्यामात्मनि तिष्ठत्यां कथमन्यो धनं हरेत् ॥ २४ ॥
The son is born as one's own self. The daughter is like a son. Then, in the presence of that daughter, like one's own self, how can another take the wealth ?
ऊढानूढाऽथवा कन्या मातृद्रव्यस्य भागिनी। अपुत्रपितृद्रव्यस्याधिपो दौहित्रिको भवेत् ॥ २५॥
The mother's property goes to the daughter, whether she be married or unmarried. And of the property of a sonless father, the daughter's son becomes the owner.
न विशेषोस्ति लोकेस्मिन् पौत्रा दौहिन्योः स्मृतः। पितरोरेकत्र सम्बन्धाज्जातयोरेकदेहतः ॥ २६ ॥
In this world there is no difference between one's daughter's sons or a son, both of whom are born of the same union and of the same tiro bodies of a man and his wife).
ऊढपुन्यां परेतायामपुत्रायां च तत्पतिः। स स्त्रीधनस्य द्रव्यस्याधिपतिस्तत्पतिः सदा ॥२७॥
A married daughter dying and being without a son, her husband alone always is the owner of her stridhana, her property.
