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THE JAINA LAW
एवं पञ्चविधं प्रोक्तं स्त्रीधनं सर्वसम्मतम् । न केनापि कदा ग्राह्य दुर्भिक्षाऽऽपवृषाहते ॥ ८८॥
These five kinds of property have been called stridhana. It should not be taken by anyone, except in time of famine, acute distress, or for religious purposes.
पैतामहधनात्किञ्चिदातुं वाञ्छति सप्रजाः । भगिनीभागिनेयादिभ्यः पुत्रस्तं निषेधति ॥ ८९ ॥
If a man desires to give out of ancestral property anything to his sister or to her son, etc., his son can object to the gift.
विना पुत्रानुमत्या वै दातुं शक्तो न वै पिता। मृते पितरि पुत्रस्तु ददत्कैन निरुध्यते ॥९० ॥
Without the consent of the son, the father undoubtedly has no power to give anything. On the death of the father, who can obstruct the son giving away the property.
गृहीते दत्तके पुत्रो धर्मपत्न्यां प्रजायते । स एवोष्णीषबन्धस्य योग्यः स्याहत्तकस्तु सः॥९१॥ चतुर्थाशं प्रदाप्यैव भिन्नः कार्योऽन्यसाक्षितः। प्रागेवाष्णीषबन्धे तु जातोपि समभाग्भवेत् ॥१२॥
After having adopted a boy, if a son is born of one's lawful wife, this son alone is worthy of turbanbinding ceremony (syinbolical of title to succession). And a fourth part being given to the adopted son,
