Mitacshara and Daya-Bhaga. Two Treatises on the Hindu law of Inheritance

In the selection of notes from commentaries and other sources the choice of them has not been restricted to such as might be necessary to the elucidation of the subject as it is exhibited in the English version ; but variations in the reading and interpretation of the original text have been regularly noticed with the view of adapting this translation to the use of those who may be induced * Viv [...] In the third clause of the lipsa sutra.] In the first clause (varnaea) the distinction between religious and personal-purposes is examined In the second the inquiry is whether the 'Viking of kine and similar preparatives be relative to the person or to the act of religion. [...] He revives the position by answering that objection ; and the notion is this : the injunctions regarding acceptance and the like accomplish property ; anct they will become relative to the religious ceremony through the medium of goods adapted to the performance of ceremony ; as the husking of grain which effects the removal of the chaff concerns the religion! ceremony through the medium of c [...] As for the precept respecting the succession of the widow and the daughters &c.t the declaration [of the order of succesion ] even in tint text is intended to prevent mistake (although the right of property be a matter familiar to the world ) where many persons might [but for that declaration] be supposed entitled to share the heritage by reason of their affinity to the late owner. [...] " The portion deducted for the eldest is the twentieth part of the heritage with the best of all the chattels ; for the middlemost half of that ; for the youngest a quarter of it."* 5. The the term " either " (§ 1) is relative to the subsequent alternative "or all may be equal sharers." That is all namely the eldest and the rest should be made partakers of equal portions.